Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover [Ronnie Rondell Jr] dies aged 88

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Ronnie Rondell Jr - who was famously set alight for the front cover of Pink Floyd's iconic Wish You Were Here album cover - has died at the age of 88.

 

The Hollywood stuntman and actor died on 12 August at a care home in the US state of Missouri, according to an online obituary.

 

Rondell was involved in the production of a number of films and TV shows during his long career, including Lethal Weapon, Thelma and Louise and Star Trek: First Contact.

 

He is survived by his wife Mary and his son, who is also called Ronald.

 

Rondell was born in California in 1937 and got his first acting role as a teenager in the early 1950s in the film Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair.

 

His first role as a stuntman was for the TV series Soldiers of Fortune, which ran from 1955 to 1957.

 

Between the 1960s and 1990s he worked on several US TV series, including Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and Baywatch, as well as movies such as Spartacus, Diamonds are Forever and The Karate Kid...