Paul Stader (February 13, 1911[2] – April 10, 1991) was an American actor, assistant director and stuntman.
[4] While participating at the Summer Olympics, Stader became friends with 400-meter freestyle gold medal winner Buster Crabbe and actor, Johnny Weissmuller.
[4] He doubled for actors on numerous films including Our Man Flint, The Missouri Traveler, Demetrius and the Gladiators, The Great Waldo Pepper, The Towering Inferno, Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl, Revolt in the Big House, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, Last of the Badmen, Blazing Saddles, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Valley of Head Hunters, Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land and Our Man Flint.
[1][4][5] Stader said that his favorite stunt was in the film Markow, in which he doubled for actor Robert Mitchum, and fell from a roof and had his fall broken by an awning.
[5] He appeared in westerns, including The Virginian, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Wagon Train and Tales of Wells Fargo, among others, and doubled for actor John Wayne.