ZUCKER BUSTER: Who was the first film stuntman?

Who was the first film stuntman?

A stunt performer, often called a stuntman or stuntwoman and occasionally a stunt person is a trained professional who performs daring acts often as a career.
Stunt performers usually appear in films or on television as opposed to a daredevil who performs for a live audience.

When they take the place of another actor, they are known as stunt doubles.

From its inception as a professional skill in the early 1900s to the 1960s, stunts were most often performed by professionals who had trained in that discipline prior to entering the movie industry.

The first picture which used a dedicated stunt performer is highly debated but occurred somewhere between 1903 and 1910.

The first possible appearance of a stunt-double was Frank Hanaway in The Great Train Robbery from 1903 in Milltown New Jersey.

He was an ex US cavalryman who won himself a part in Edwin S Porter's The Great Train Robbery for his ability to fall off a horse without injuring himself.