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- Birth nameJames Haskell Burk
- Jim Burk was born on November 14, 1932 in Newhall, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Tango & Cash (1989) and 2010 (1984). He died on March 10, 2009 in Darby, Montana, USA.
- Stuntman and actor who worked on over a dozen films with John Wayne.
- Retired for the most part in the late 1980s and settled in Montana's Bitterroot Valley.
- Was known for training falling horses in nearly three decades of westerns and cavalry films.
- His stepfather, Jimmy Loukes, helped him break into the film industry as a stuntman in the 1950s.
- Began training horses and competing on the rodeo circuit as an adolescent.
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