Stunt performer who appeared in films including The Mission, Total Recall and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Bronco McLoughlin, who has died aged 80, was the stunt performer seen in one of the most powerful cinematic opening sequences of the past half century. He played the Jesuit priest strapped to a giant crucifix who careers over a waterfall to his death at the start of The Mission (1986), the director Roland Joffé’s epic about 18th-century Spanish Jesuits protecting a South American tribe from Portuguese colonialists seeking slaves.
McLoughlin floated along the rapids until he disappeared over the top of Iguazú Falls, on the border of Brazil and Argentina – by which time a lifelike dummy made by Madame Tussauds had replaced him on the cross. The breathtaking scene – featured on publicity posters – was heightened by Chris Menges’s Oscar-winning photography.
Bronco McLoughlin, who has died aged 80, was the stunt performer seen in one of the most powerful cinematic opening sequences of the past half century. He played the Jesuit priest strapped to a giant crucifix who careers over a waterfall to his death at the start of The Mission (1986), the director Roland Joffé’s epic about 18th-century Spanish Jesuits protecting a South American tribe from Portuguese colonialists seeking slaves.
McLoughlin floated along the rapids until he disappeared over the top of Iguazú Falls, on the border of Brazil and Argentina – by which time a lifelike dummy made by Madame Tussauds had replaced him on the cross. The breathtaking scene – featured on publicity posters – was heightened by Chris Menges’s Oscar-winning photography.
- 3/31/2019
- by Anthony Hayward
- The Guardian - Film News
Anthony "Bronco" McLoughlin, the colorful Irish stuntman who through the magic of movies hurtled down a waterfall while tied to a crucifix at the start of The Mission and burned to death in The Wicker Man, has died. He was 80.
McLoughlin died Tuesday in his sleep in Ashford, County Wicklow, Dublin, his daughter Frances McLoughlin told The Hollywood Reporter.
"He was a big talker and disapproved of inauthentic or urban activities, like gyms, for example," she noted. "He'd say, 'If you want to get fit, help your neighbor build a wall.'"
McLoughlin performed uncredited ...
McLoughlin died Tuesday in his sleep in Ashford, County Wicklow, Dublin, his daughter Frances McLoughlin told The Hollywood Reporter.
"He was a big talker and disapproved of inauthentic or urban activities, like gyms, for example," she noted. "He'd say, 'If you want to get fit, help your neighbor build a wall.'"
McLoughlin performed uncredited ...
- 3/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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