TOM HENNESY - Actor and Stuntman Featured as the Gill Man on Land in "Revenge of the Creature"

Actor and stuntman Tom Hennesy died in Malibu, California, on May 23, 2011.  He was 87.  Hennesy was born in Los Angeles on August 4, 1923.  He worked primarily as a stuntman in the 1950s and 1960s on such films as “Jack and the Beanstalk” (1952), “The High and the Mighty” (1954), “It Should Happen To You” (1954), “The Caine Mutiny” (1954), “Prince of Players” (1955), “The Road to Denver” (1955), “The Long Gray Line” (1955), the 1955 sequel to "Creature from the Black Lagoon", “Revenge of the Creature”, “Blood Alley” (1955), “The Ten Commandments” (1956), “The Buccaneer” (1958), “North to Alaska” (1960), “The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance” (1962), "Stagecoach” (1966), “The War Wagon” (1967), and “The Green Berets” (1968).  Hennesy performed stunts in many films with actor John Wayne and had his largest role in as the gentle giant, Mr. Sweet, in 1971’s “Big Jake”.  He also appeared on television as Clint Walker’s stunt double for the western series “Cheyenne” in the 1950s.   His other television credits include episodes of  “The Further Adventures of the Spin and Marty”, “26 Men”, "Gunsmoke", and Boris Karloff's “Thriller” as the spectral figure in the episode “The Return of Andrew Bentley”.