George P. Wilbur, a well-known stuntman and actor in Hollywood, passed away this past Wednesday at 81. George P. His cause of death wasn’t disclosed. Funeral services might be revealed later. Gena Wilbur, Wilbur’s daughter, is his only child.
Everyone is mourning, remembering, and expressing sympathy for George Peter Wilbur on social media.
George P. Wilbur, a celebrity stuntman in Hollywood, is most known for his roles as Michael Myers in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers.
George Peter Wilbur, an American actor and trained stuntman was born on March 6, 1941. Wilbur was a member of the American Navy. He worked as a wrangler on a ranch in Tucson, Arizona, following his retirement from the Navy, where he was hired to fill in for John Wayne in the 1966 movie El Dorado. Later, Wilbur relocated to California and worked as an extra and stunt double there.
After starting his career in the 1960s as a stand-in for John Wayne, George P. Wilbur gathered over 100 television and film credits across six decades.
As a stuntman, stunt double, and stunt supervisor, Wilbur has worked on such movies as Planet of the Apes (1968), Blazing Saddles, The Towering Inferno, Grizzly, Escape from New York, Ghostbusters, Re-Animator, Fletch, Poltergeist II: The Other Side, The Monster Squad, Dead Heat, Die Hard, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Beastmaster, Firestarter (1984), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Poltergeist.
Wilbur has appeared as an actor in many movies, such as Pennies from Heaven, Every Which Way But Loose, Firestarter (1984), The Running Man, Ghostbusters II, and Cast a Deadly Spell.
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