A Tribute to Boyd Red Morgan

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Boyd "Red" Morgan started high school in Hobbs, NM, but finished after moving to Holtville, CA.

"Red" was outstanding in athletics and received a football scholarship from U.S.C. in 1935. Arriving at the university in July for football practice, Red was recruited for his first professional job…playing halfback in a football picture.

"Red" joined the Screen Actor’s Guild in 1936, but after graduating from U.S.C., he was recruited by the Washington Redskins.

"Red" joined the Pacific Coast League in 1940 and played a little with the Hollywood Bears and later with the Birmingham Generals.

World War II, was going full bore in 1942, when "Red" joined the Navy as an Ensign.

Graduating from U.S. Naval Academy, he was sent to St. Mary’s Pre-flight Training Center for 16 months.

Upon leaving the service he coached football at Polytechnic High School in Long Beach until 1948. 

Big, burly "Red" found himself in high demand due to his prowess with horses and soon became one of Hollywood’s top stuntmen, constantly employed doubling for Dean Martin, Scott Brady, Gene Evans, Anthony Caruso, Stuart Whitman, Darren McGavin, Robert Preston, Peter Graves, Jim Davis, Leo Gordon and countless others.

"Red" work hard, and as the years past. his talent and ability was in command.

The hundreds of films and countless TV episodes to which "Red" added excitement read like a listing of every top film done in the last 40 plus years. “The Alamo”, “War Wagon”, “Sons of Katie Elder”, “Arizona Raiders”, “Rio Lobo”, “Five Card Stud”, “A Distant Trumpet”, “Ten Wanted Men”, “North To Alaska”, “The Stalking Moon”, “McLintock”, “Last Musketeer”, “Desert of Lost Men”, “Snake River Desperadoes”, “Winning of the West”, “Riding Shotgun”, “How the West Was Won”, “True Grit”, “Roy Rogers”, “Gunsmoke”, “Tales of Wells Fargo”, “Cimarron Strip”, “Gene Autry”, “Range Rider”, “Lawman” and hundreds more just as impressive.

Boyd F. (Red) Morgan, 72, an actor and stuntman, who boasted that in the 2,000 falls, he had taken off horses in dozens of motion pictures and television shows, neither he nor his horses were ever injured.

According all the professional stuntmen's and women's in the industry that work with him said, Boyd "Red" Morgan served as a roll model for professional stuntmen's and actors.

Boyd "Red" Morgan pass away at age 72 on January 8, 1988 in Tarzana, California.

"A man that was the Greatest of The Great."

Jim Winburn

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