Reed Howes — An Educated Stunt Man (1927) 🇺🇸

Lots of people would probably never think of associating culture and education with a chap who does stunts in the movies.

But take the case of Reed Howes, first-class stunt man on the screen. He is a graduate of the University of Utah, and received a Master’s degree in business economics at Harvard.

Howes has done things all his life. At the early age of fourteen, he won a thousand-dollar prize and a trip from Ogden, Utah, to the World Series baseball games in New York.

He inherited a leather business from his father, but lost out in this immediately after the war. He was ambitious to go onto the stage, so went to New York and played for two and a half years in a Billie Burke play. He stepped from this into small parts in Eastern-made films, and then produced a picture of his own.

He came to Hollywood and has made about twenty stunt films. Also, he recently played the prizefighter lead opposite Clara Bow in Paramount’s “Rough House Rosie.”

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, August 1927