10 Movie Stunts That Went Horribly Wrong
6. Stuntman Bob Morgan Loses A Leg - How The West Was Won
Bob Morgan had an amazing fifteen year span of acting as a stunt double for many Hollywood epics and westerns, until one complex scene in How The West Was Won, which altered his life and career forever.
A typical action-packed Western, the story concludes with a gunfight on a moving train between the sheriff and a gang of train robbers. Morgan was playing one of the robbers to conceal his role as a stuntman, and he was positioned next to a pile of logs on a flatcar. The equipment holding the logs together broke, and Bob was crushed by the falling logs and was nearly killed.
Ultimately, Morgan lost a leg, and it took five years of recovering before he was able to move by himself unaided. His wife, who happened to be film actress Yvonne De Carlo, put her acting career on hold to nurse him back to health.