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Veteran American stroke Ronnie Rondell, Jr., who, as you know, set fire to the symbolic cover of Pink Floyd the album “desire of you”, died at the age of 88.
Rondell -Jr. played in more than 200 films, including How the West was won; Deadly weapon; Twister And The matrix rebootedField
Undoubtedly, one of his most famous tricks – especially for music fans – is shown in a photograph created by the legendary artist Storm Torgerson and Obri Powell from the HipGnosis artistic design team for the ninth studio of the album Pink Floyd“I wish you to be here” in 1975.
Rondell is the youngest. He was dressed in a universal uniform and a protective gel and was set on fire in Warner Bros studios. In California, and then it is known as Burbank Studios. The image captures him to clap his hand with another person in a suit – his colleague Danny Rogers.
“In those days, I did a lot of work with fire, and I had special costumes and all these things to shoot with a full shell,” said Rondell Jr. in a documentary Pink Floyd: History of desire you were Here. “It was quite easy to do. It was not very dangerous for life, and it was well paid. ”
It was not very life -threatening, but Rondell, the youngest, he lost an eyebrow and his mustache during a photograph …
Nevertheless, the impressive coating “I wish you to be here” had an eternal heritage and remains one of The most important covers of the album of all timesField
Born in Hollywood in 1937, Rondell served in the US Navy before he began to work on television. Finally, he founded Stunts Unlimited, who represented motorcycle racing drivers, car drivers, riders, pilots and racing choreographers.
His career continued from 1955 to 2003, with a stroke in films such as Kings of the Sun. (1963), Diamonds forever (1971), Burning saddles (1974), Commandos (1985), They live (1988), Red October Hunt (1990), Telma and Louise (1991), The last hero of the militant (1993), Speed (1994), Crow (1994) and Batman and Robin (1997).
He also worked in a classic television series, such as Charlie, Bayvyach and Bayrett.
Retired in 2000, but returned to the last film, The matrix rebooted (2003) and was responsible for the best part of the continuity: the symbolic sequence of persecution, where the son of Rondell was the head of the stuntman.