Jeannie Epper obit

Jeannie Epper, Legendary ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Romancing the Stone’ Stuntwoman, Dies at 83

She also doubled for Linda Evans on ‘The Big Valley’ and ‘Dynasty,’ got caught in a fire on ‘Lancer’ and was smashed in the head by Pam Grier in ‘Foxy Brown.’ 

She was not on the list.

Jeannie Epper, the peerless, fearless stunt performer who doubled for Lynda Carter on Wonder Woman and swung on a vine across a 350-foot gorge and propelled down an epic mudslide as Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone, has died. She was 83.

Epper died Sunday night of natural causes at her home in Simi Valley, her family told The Hollywood Reporter.

Just one member of a dynasty of stunt performers that Steven Spielberg dubbed the “Flying Wallendas of Film” — starting with her father, John Epper, there have been four generations of Eppers in show business since the 1930s — she worked on 150-plus films and TV shows during an astounding 70-year career.

In 2007, Epper received the first lifetime achievement honor given to a woman at the World Taurus Awards and ranks among the greatest stuntwomen of all time.

Known for her agility, horse-riding skills and competitiveness, the 5-foot-9 Epper also stepped in for Linda Evans on the ABC shows The Big Valley in the 1960s and Dynasty in the 1980s. When Evans’ Krystle was engaged in one of those knock-down, drag-out catfights with Joan Collins’ Alexis, chances are it was Epper you saw mixing it up.

Epper also put herself in harm’s way for Kate Jackson on Charlie’s Angels, for Lindsay Wagner on The Bionic Woman, for Angie Dickinson on Police Woman, for Jessica Walter in Play Misty for Me (1971), for Jill Clayburgh in Silver Streak (1976) and for Nancy Allen in RoboCop (1987).

Epper was caught in a fire and wound up in the hospital after a stunt went awry on an episode of the 1968-70 ABC series Lancer, and she received a severe head wound when smashed with a heavy picture frame in a barroom brawl with Pam Grier in Foxy Brown (1974).

On the latter, “The cameraman loved it. I had blond hair, the blood was running down, they kept the camera right on me,” she told Dan Rather for a CBS Sunday Morning segment in 1979.

In 2000, she donated a kidney, possibly saving the life of good friend Ken Howard. “It’s very humbling when someone gives you a part of themselves to keep you alive,” the actor said three years later. “Thankful doesn’t seem to quite make it.”

Epper served as Carter’s main stunt double on Wonder Woman, which aired on ABC and CBS from 1975-79 (Debbie Evans and Kitty O’Neil were among those who also suited up for the star). She learned how to mimic Carter’s running gait and did most of the superhero’s fighting and signature jumping on the show.

Epper spent about 11 weeks in a remote Mexican rainforest on Romancing the Stone (1984), starring Turner and Michael Douglas. She rehearsed the mudslide scene with Douglas’ stunt double, Vince Deadrick Jr., two or three times a day for a couple of weeks.

When Deadrick once landed with his head between her open legs in a pool of mud at the bottom of the slide, director Robert Zemeckis decided to carry that over to the movie, and it made for one of the film’s funniest moments.

For her trip across the gorge, stunt coordinator Terry Leonard rigged the cable used in the stunt to a tree, he explained to Entertainment Weekly in 2007.

“And when we did a test, the tree pulled right out of the ground because it had rained so much in Mexico. It went crashing down into the canyon,” he recalled. “Something like that will take away your confidence pretty quickly. But Jeannie, she just stepped up and did it when it was time.”

One of six children — three girls and three boys — Jean Luann Epper was born in Glendale on Jan. 27, 1941, and raised in North Hollywood. Will Rogers’ horse, Trigger, was stabled down the street from the family home on Longridge Avenue.

Her charismatic father was a former officer with the Swiss Cavalry who doubled for the likes of Gary Cooper (The Westerner), Errol Flynn (The Charge of the Light Brigade), Randolph Scott (Western Union) and Ronald Reagan (Santa Fe Trail) in more than 200 movies. Her mother, Frances, was a homemaker.

When she was 9, Jeannie performed her first stunt, riding a horse bareback down a cliff, and appeared in her first film, Elopement (1951), starring Clifton Webb and Anne Francis. At 13, she left for Switzerland for 2 1/2 years at finishing school.

She returned home and received her first credit on Cheyenne Autumn (1964), directed by John Ford. And during the four-season run of The Big Valley, she was on the set almost every day, also stepping in occasionally for Barbara Stanwyck.

 

This was a time in Hollywood when men would double for women.

“It wasn’t until sexy ladies like Linda Evans and Lynda Carter said we didn’t want hairy-legged boys doubling for us anymore,” Epper said in a 2014 conversation for the TV Academy Foundation website The Interviews. They said, ‘These girls are just as good as the guys, only they have shaved legs and don’t have hairy armpits.’”

On Lancer, starring Wayne Maunder, Epper stood in for an actress whose character was clutching a doll while trapped in a burning cabin. Before the scene, the director told Jeannie, “‘Whatever you do, don’t let go of the doll,’” she told EW. Before she knew it, beams on fire were crashing all around her.

“When I woke up in the hospital, all my hair was burned off,” she said, “but I still had that little doll in my hands. You should have seen that doll, too. It was all fried up. We both were.”

All in all, however, she managed to avoid serious injury during her career.

In The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Epper and her two sisters, Margo and Stephanie, played slimy hookers who grab at and then beat up Paul Newman. Later in the movie, she is seen in a red wig jumping on a horse and getting the heck out of town.

And in what she said was one of her favorite scenes, she (as Shirley MacLaine’s character) ejected Jack Nicholson’s double out of the top of a Corvette in Terms of Endearment (1983).

Epper worked for Spielberg (as director or producer) on eight films, among them Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), 1941 (1979), Poltergeist (1982), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Minority Report (2002).

Her big-screen body of work also included Our Man Flint (1966), Coffy (1973), Earthquake (1974), The Towering Inferno (1974), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981), Blade Runner (1982), Extremities (1986), Outrageous Fortune (1987), Road House (1989), Total Recall (1990), The Fugitive (1993), Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995), Con Air (1997), Rush Hour 2 (2001), The Italian Job (2003), Kill Bill: Vol 2 (2004), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

When she was 69, she jumped a car through fire and landed it safely for a 2010 commercial and was 80 when she received her final stunt credit.

Epper was a founding member of the Stuntwomen’s Association of Motion Pictures, launched in 1968, and served as its president in 1999. And in 2004, she and fellow stunt performer Zoë Bell were featured in Amanda Micheli’s documentary Double Dare, which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Survivors include her fourth husband, Tim; her children, Eurlyne and Richard, both in the stunt business (another son and stuntman, Kurtis, predeceased her); five grandchildren, including Christopher, a stuntman; and seven great-grandchildren.

Her siblings, Tony, Margo — she was in the window as Mrs. Norma Bates in Psycho and appeared in the film’s iconic shower scene oh-so briefly — Gary, Andy and Stephanie all worked in stunts and died before her.

“In the bar fight in 1941,” Spielberg says in Double Dare, “there were Eppers flying all over the place. There were Eppers coming in from screen left, Eppers coming in from screen right, they were everywhere.”

In Scott McGee’s 2022 book Danger on the Silver Screen, Epper is quoted as saying that stunt work “empowers me, it gives me a sense of great accomplishment and control … as a woman, when you pull off something that only men do, it raises respect for all women. It opens the door for women to do all kinds of things.”

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stunts

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stunts

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stunts

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2005

 

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6.4

stunts

2004

 

Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

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utility stunts

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Courteney Cox in November (2004)

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5.4

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Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday (2003)

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6.3

stunts

2003

 

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6.6

stunts

2003

 

Ludacris, Eva Mendes, Tyrese Gibson, Paul Walker, and Devon Aoki in 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

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5.9

stunt player

2003

 

Charlize Theron, Mark Wahlberg, Seth Green, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Yasiin Bey, and Franky G in The Italian Job (2003)

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7.0

stunts

2003

 

Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Catch Me If You Can

8.1

stunts (as Jeannine Epper)

2002

 

Tom Cruise in Minority Report (2002)

Minority Report

7.6

stunts

2002

 

Cameron Diaz in The Sweetest Thing (2002)

The Sweetest Thing

5.2

stunts (as Jeanne Epper)

2002

 

Colin Hanks and Jack Black in Orange County (2002)

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6.2

stunts

2002

 

Ben Affleck, Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, Shannon Elizabeth, Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, and Jason Mewes in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

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6.8

stunts

2001

 

Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway in The Princess Diaries (2001)

The Princess Diaries

6.4

stunts

2001

 

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 2 (2001)

Rush Hour 2

6.7

stunts

2001

 

Elisabeth Shue, Viola Davis, and Hanna Hall in Amy & Isabelle (2001)

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6.2

TV Movie

stunt coordinator (as Jeanne Epper)

2001

 

Nicole Eggert and Coolio in Submerged (2000)

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3.3

stunts

2000

 

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Marla Sokoloff, James Franco, and Shane West in Whatever It Takes (2000)

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5.5

stunts

2000

 

Hard Time: Hostage Hotel (1999)

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5.1

TV Movie

stunts

1999

 

Hank Azaria, Janeane Garofalo, William H. Macy, Paul Reubens, Greg Kinnear, Ben Stiller, Kel Mitchell, and Wes Studi in Mystery Men (1999)

Mystery Men

6.1

stunts

1999

 

Kevin Kline and Will Smith in Wild Wild West (1999)

Wild Wild West

4.9

stunts

1999

 

Running Red (1999)

Running Red

4.9

Video

stunt performer

1999

 

Soldier (1998)

Soldier

6.0

stunts (as Jeanie Epper)

1998

 

Wesley Snipes in Blade (1998)

Blade

7.1

stunts

1998

 

Liv Tyler, Bruce Willis, and Ben Affleck in Armageddon (1998)

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6.7

stunts (as Jean Epper)

1998

 

Steve Guttenberg, Brendon Ryan Barrett, Bill Farmer, Jeremy Foley, Jess Harnell, Lori Loughlin, and Jim Ward in Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)

Casper: A Spirited Beginning

4.5

Video

stunts

1997

 

Steven Seagal and Marg Helgenberger in Fire Down Below (1997)

Fire Down Below

5.1

stunts (as Jeanne Epper)

1997

 

Ray J and Shaquille O'Neal in Steel (1997)

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3.0

stunts

1997

 

Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, and Ving Rhames in Con Air (1997)

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6.9

stunts

1997

 

Sugar Ray Leonard, Dawn Eason, Wolf Larson, Renee Tenison, Kenneth Tigar, and Steven Williams in L.A. Heat (1996)

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6.9

TV Series

stunt performer

1997

1 episode

 

Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, and Marisol Nichols in Vegas Vacation (1997)

Vegas Vacation

5.9

stunts

1997

 

Eddie Murphy in Metro (1997)

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5.6

stunts

1997

 

Vivica A. Fox, Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, and Kimberly Elise in Set It Off (1996)

Set It Off

6.9

stunts

1996

 

Jon Lovitz in High School High (1996)

High School High

5.6

stunts

1996

 

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5.9

stunts (as Jeanne Epper)

1996

 

Francis Capra and Shaquille O'Neal in Kazaam (1996)

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3.1

stunts

1996

 

Leslie Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan in Spy Hard (1996)

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5.3

stunts (as Jeannie Eppers)

1996

 

Steve Martin in Sgt. Bilko (1996)

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5.8

stunts

1996

 

Sally Kirkland in Guns & Lipstick (1995)

Guns & Lipstick

3.8

stunts

1995

 

Diane Ladd in Mother (1995)

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4.7

Video

stunts

1995

 

Money Train (1995)

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5.7

stunts

1995

 

Linda Hamilton and Jim Belushi in Separate Lives (1995)

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5.0

utility stunts

1995

 

Bruce Willis in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

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7.6

stunts

1995

 

Night of the Running Man (1995)

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5.8

stunts

1995

 

Tommy Lee Jones and Jeff Bridges in Blown Away (1994)

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6.2

stunts

1994

 

Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

Beverly Hills Cop III

5.5

stunts

1994

 

Ground Zero Texas (1994)

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6.6

Video Game

stunts

1994

 

Noah Fleiss and Jacob Tierney in Josh and S.A.M. (1993)

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5.6

stunts

1993

 

Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man (1993)

Demolition Man

6.7

stunts

1993

 

Harrison Ford in The Fugitive (1993)

The Fugitive

7.8

stunts

1993

 

Dreamrider (1993)

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5.5

stunts

1993

 

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5.5

stunts

1993

 

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6.2

stunts

1992

 

Shaun Weiss in The Mighty Ducks (1992)

The Mighty Ducks

6.6

stunts

1992

 

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4.9

stunts

1992

 

Marcy Walker in Midnight's Child (1992)

Midnight's Child

4.9

TV Movie

stunts

1992

 

Ray Liotta and Kiefer Sutherland in Article 99 (1992)

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6.1

stunts

1992

 

Heather Locklear, John Forsythe, Linda Evans, John James, and Emma Samms in Dynasty: The Reunion (1991)

Dynasty: The Reunion

6.2

TV Mini Series

stunts (uncredited)

1991

2 episodes

 

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6.8

stunts (as Jean Epper)

1991

 

Mobsters (1991)

Mobsters

5.9

stunts

1991

 

Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Smits in Switch (1991)

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5.8

stunts (as Jean Epper)

1991

 

Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen in The Rookie (1990)

The Rookie

5.9

stunts

1990

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall (1990)

Total Recall

7.5

stunts

1990

 

Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita in Come See the Paradise (1990)

Come See the Paradise

6.7

stunts (as Jeanne Epper)

1990

 

Chevy Chase in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

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7.5

stunts

1989

 

The Package (1989)

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6.4

stunts

1989

 

Tales from the Crypt (1989)

Tales from the Crypt

8.0

TV Series

stunts

1989

1 episode

 

Patrick Swayze and Kelly Lynch in Road House (1989)

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6.7

stunts

1989

 

K-9 (1989)

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6.1

stunts

1989

 

Robert Carradine, Sally Kellerman, George Segal, and Lou Ferrigno in All's Fair (1989)

All's Fair

3.7

stunts

1989

 

Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Ricardo Montalban, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, Jeannette Charles, Reggie Jackson, and Nancy Marchand in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

7.6

stunts (uncredited)

1988

 

Cassandra Peterson and Edie McClurg in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

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6.6

stunt player

1988

 

Natasha Richardson in Patty Hearst (1988)

Patty Hearst

6.3

stunts

1988

 

Terry Farrell, David D'Arnal, Clarence Gilyard Jr., and Mark Neely in Off the Mark (1987)

Off the Mark

5.5

stunts

1987

 

Kristy Swanson, Victoria Tennant, Ben Ryan Ganger, and Lindsay Parker in Flowers in the Attic (1987)

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5.7

stunts (as Jeanie Epper)

1987

 

Nancy Allen, Peter Weller, Miguel Ferrer, and Kurtwood Smith in RoboCop (1987)

RoboCop

7.6

stunt double: Nancy Allen

stunts (uncredited)

1987

 

Million Dollar Mystery (1987)

Million Dollar Mystery

5.0

stunts

1987

 

Retribution (1987)

Retribution

5.9

utility stunts

1987

 

Bette Midler and Shelley Long in Outrageous Fortune (1987)

Outrageous Fortune

6.2

stunts

1987

 

Vendetta (1986)

Vendetta

5.3

stunt player

1986

 

Extremities (1986)

Extremities

6.3

stunt coordinator

stunts

1986

 

Vamp (1986)

Vamp

5.9

stunts

1986

 

Daryl Hannah, Robert Redford, and Debra Winger in Legal Eagles (1986)

Legal Eagles

6.0

stunts

1986

 

Charles Bronson and Kathleen Wilhoite in Murphy's Law (1986)

Murphy's Law

5.9

stunt player

1986

 

Shari Shattuck in The Naked Cage (1986)

The Naked Cage

5.2

stunt player

1986

 

Dynasty (1981)

Dynasty

6.4

TV Series

stunt coordinator

stunt double: Linda Evans

stunt double: Linda Evans as Krystle (uncredited)

1983–1986

8 episodes

 

Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, Madeline Kahn, Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, and Martin Mull in Clue (1985)

Clue

7.2

stunts

1985

 

Where Are the Children? (1985)

Where Are the Children?

5.6

stunts

1985

 

Chevy Chase in Fletch (1985)

Fletch

6.9

stunts

1985

 

Private Resort (1985)

Private Resort

5.2

stunt player

1985

 

Ghost Warrior (1984)

Ghost Warrior

5.2

stunt player

1984

 

Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone (1984)

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6.9

stunts

1984

 

Getting Physical (1984)

Getting Physical

6.2

TV Movie

stunts

1984

 

Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger in Terms of Endearment (1983)

Terms of Endearment

7.4

stunts

1983

 

The Final Terror (1983)

The Final Terror

5.2

stunts

1983

 

Steve Martin in The Man with Two Brains (1983)

The Man with Two Brains

6.4

stunts

1983

 

The Beastmaster (1982)

The Beastmaster

6.2

stunts

1982

 

Harrison Ford and Sean Young in Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner

8.1

stunts (uncredited)

1982

 

Heather O'Rourke in Poltergeist (1982)

Poltergeist

7.3

stunts (as Jean Epper)

1982

 

The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

The Sword and the Sorcerer

5.5

stunts

1982

 

Deathtrap (1982)

Deathtrap

7.0

stunts (uncredited)

1982

 

Adrienne Barbeau, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Moore, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. in The Cannonball Run (1981)

The Cannonball Run

6.2

stunts (uncredited)

1981

 

Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith in Charlie's Angels (1976)

Charlie's Angels

6.5

TV Series

stunt double: Tanya Roberts

stunt double: Kate Jackson (uncredited)

1976–1981

18 episodes

 

Dennis Quaid, Barbara Bach, Shelley Long, John Matuszak, and Ringo Starr in Caveman (1981)

Caveman

5.8

stunts

1981

 

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

4.0

stunts

1981

 

Melvin and Howard (1980)

Melvin and Howard

6.8

stunts

1980

 

Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, and Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)

Smokey and the Bandit II

5.3

stunts

1980

 

Used Cars (1980)

Used Cars

6.7

stunts

1980

 

John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers (1980)

The Blues Brothers

7.9

stunts

1980

 

Stacy Keach in The Ninth Configuration (1980)

The Ninth Configuration

6.8

stunt biker

stunts (as Jeannie Eppers, uncredited)

1980

 

The Jerk (1979)

The Jerk

7.1

stunts (uncredited)

1979

 

1941 (1979)

1941

5.8

stunts (uncredited)

1979

 

The Silent Scream (1979)

The Silent Scream

5.8

stunts

1979

 

Lee Marvin, Maximilian Schell, Robert Shaw, and Linda Evans in Avalanche Express (1979)

Avalanche Express

4.9

stunts (uncredited)

1979

 

Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman (1975)

Wonder Woman

7.0

TV Series

stunt double (uncredited)

1978

1 episode

 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

7.6

stunts (uncredited)

1977

 

Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams in Laverne & Shirley (1976)

Laverne & Shirley

7.0

TV Series

stunt coordinator

1977

1 episode

 

Black Sunday (1977)

Black Sunday

6.8

stunts (uncredited)

1977

 

Bound for Glory (1976)

Bound for Glory

7.2

stunts

1976

 

Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor in Silver Streak (1976)

Silver Streak

6.9

stunt double: Jill Clayburgh (uncredited)

1976

 

Eaten Alive (1976)

Eaten Alive

5.5

stunt double (as Jeanie Epper)

1976

 

Jenny Agutter, Farrah Fawcett, Michael York, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Richard Jordan in Logan's Run (1976)

Logan's Run

6.8

stunts (uncredited)

1976

 

The Bionic Woman (1976)

The Bionic Woman

6.7

TV Series

stunt double: Lindsay Wagner (uncredited)

1976

4 episodes

 

Karen Black in The Day of the Locust (1975)

The Day of the Locust

6.9

stunts (uncredited)

1975

 

Fred Astaire, William Holden, Paul Newman, Richard Chamberlain, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, and Jennifer Jones in The Towering Inferno (1974)

The Towering Inferno

7.0

stunts (uncredited)

1974

 

Charlton Heston, Victoria Principal, Geneviève Bujold, Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy, Marjoe Gortner, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Roundtree, and Barry Sullivan in Earthquake (1974)

Earthquake

5.9

stunts (uncredited)

1974

 

Pam Grier in Foxy Brown (1974)

Foxy Brown

6.5

stunts (uncredited)

1974

 

Mame (1974)

Mame

5.9

stunt double: Joyce van Patten (uncredited)

1974

 

Mel Brooks and Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles (1974)

Blazing Saddles

7.7

stunts (uncredited)

1974

 

Anthony Quinn, Robert Forster, Frederic Forrest, and Carlos Romero in The Don Is Dead (1973)

The Don Is Dead

6.2

stunts (uncredited)

1973

 

Pam Grier in Coffy (1973)

Coffy

6.8

stunts (uncredited)

1973

 

Soylent Green (1973)

Soylent Green

7.0

stunts (uncredited)

1973

 

Emergency! (1972)

Emergency!

7.9

TV Series

stunts (uncredited)

1973

1 episode

 

Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Leslie Nielsen, Red Buttons, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Carol Lynley, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O'Connell, and Eric Shea in The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

The Poseidon Adventure

7.1

stunts (uncredited)

1972

 

Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walter in Play Misty for Me (1971)

Play Misty for Me

6.9

stunt double: Jessica W (uncredited)

1971

 

Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man (1970)

Little Big Man

7.5

stunts (uncredited)

1970

 

Walter Matthau and Barbra Streisand in Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Hello, Dolly!

7.0

stunts (uncredited)

1969

 

Lee Majors, Barbara Stanwyck, Linda Evans, Peter Breck, and Richard Long in The Big Valley (1965)

The Big Valley

7.6

TV Series

stunt double (uncredited)

1965–1969

112 episodes

 

Gregory Peck, Telly Savalas, Omar Sharif, Ted Cassidy, Julie Newmar, Camilla Sparv, and Keenan Wynn in Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Mackenna's Gold

6.7

stunts (uncredited)

1969

 

Our Man Flint (1966)

Our Man Flint

6.4

stunts (uncredited)

1966

 

Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick in The Hallelujah Trail (1965)

The Hallelujah Trail

6.4

stunts (uncredited)

1965

 

Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Sal Mineo, Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Widmark, Dolores Del Río, Carroll Baker, Arthur Kennedy, and Gilbert Roland in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Cheyenne Autumn

6.7

stunts (uncredited)

1964

 

Actress

The Rookie (2018)

The Rookie

8.0

TV Series

Aunt Sallie

2019

1 episode

 

Made for Each Other

8.9

Short

Old Lady

2015

 

Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara in Hot Pursuit (2015)

Hot Pursuit

5.1

senior tour passenger closest to Cooper (uncredited)

2015

 

Epic Chick Fight

7.9

Short

Dianna Prince

2013

 

Criminal Minds (2005)

Criminal Minds

8.1

TV Series

Blond Woman at Pharmacy (uncredited)

2009

1 episode

 

Rufus Sewell in Eleventh Hour (2008)

Eleventh Hour

7.2

TV Series

Mrs. Friedman

2009

1 episode

 

Quarantine (2008)

Quarantine

6.0

Ms. Espinoza

2008

 

Evilution (2008)

Evilution

3.8

Mrs. Harris (as Jeannie Epper-Kimack)

2008

 

Uma Thurman, Vivica A. Fox, David Carradine, Shin'ichi Chiba, Michael Bowen, Julie Dreyfus, and Chiaki Kuriyama in Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006)

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

8.7

Mrs. Harmony

2006

 

Supernatural (2005)

Supernatural

8.4

TV Series

The Shtriga

2006

1 episode

 

Jim Carrey in Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

Fun with Dick and Jane

6.2

Gym Class Attendee (uncredited)

2005

 

Tony Shalhoub in Monk (2002)

Monk

8.1

TV Series

Gladys

2005

1 episode

 

Legacy

8.3

Old Lady

2004

 

Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Naomi Watts, and Ger Duany in I Heart Huckabees (2004)

I Heart Huckabees

6.5

Lady in Gown (as Jeannie Epper-Kimack)

2004

 

Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

8.0

Mrs. Harmony

2004

 

Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs, and Shannen Doherty in Charmed (1998)

Charmed

7.2

TV Series

Elderly Woman

2002

1 episode

 

Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man (2002)

Spider-Man

7.4

Board of Directors Member (uncredited)

2002

 

Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, Josh Peck, and Nancy Sullivan in The Amanda Show (1999)

The Amanda Show

6.7

TV Series

2001

1 episode

 

Bruce Willis in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

Die Hard with a Vengeance

7.6

Woman at Subway Station (uncredited)

1995

 

Corey Feldman, Erin Gray, Mako, Ted Jan Roberts, and Dick Van Patten in A Dangerous Place (1994)

A Dangerous Place

5.3

Old Woman

1994

 

Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

Beverly Hills Cop III

5.5

Spider Rider

1994

 

Shaun Weiss in The Mighty Ducks (1992)

The Mighty Ducks

6.6

Woman in Mall (uncredited)

1992

 

Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

6.9

Gala Guest (uncredited)

1991

 

Jami Gertz, Steve Guttenberg, Shelley Long, and Kyle MacLachlan in The Boyfriend School (1990)

The Boyfriend School

5.7

Woman Thug

1990

 

Tales from the Crypt (1989)

Tales from the Crypt

8.0

TV Series

Ada Ritter

1990

1 episode

 

Nancy Allen, Brian Robbins, Robert Culp, Rick Dees, Stan Shaw, and Ken Wahl in The Gladiator (1986)

The Gladiator

5.3

TV Movie

Woman in Truck (uncredited)

1986

 

Warning Sign (1985)

Warning Sign

6.1

Woman on Video Screen

1985

 

Chevy Chase in Fletch (1985)

Fletch

6.9

Basketball Spectator (uncredited)

1985

 

Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams in Laverne & Shirley (1976)

Laverne & Shirley

7.0

TV Series

Red Team

1979

1 episode

 

Pam Grier, Ken Norton, and Warren Oates in Drum (1976)

Drum

5.5

Woman Guest #2 (as Jean Epper)

1976

 

Switchblade Sisters (1975)

Switchblade Sisters

6.5

Matron #1

1975

 

Charlton Heston, Victoria Principal, Geneviève Bujold, Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy, Marjoe Gortner, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Roundtree, and Barry Sullivan in Earthquake (1974)

Earthquake

5.9

Blonde Woman Fleeing Theater

Blonde Woman in Elevator (uncredited)

1974

 

Pam Grier in Foxy Brown (1974)

Foxy Brown

6.5

Bobbie

1974

 

Soylent Green (1973)

Soylent Green

7.0

Woman Picked Up by Scoop (uncredited)

1973

 

James Daly in Medical Center (1969)

Medical Center

7.1

TV Series

Girl #2 (as Jean Eppers)

1973

1 episode

 

Paul Newman in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

6.8

Whore

1972

 

Walter Matthau and Barbra Streisand in Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Hello, Dolly!

7.0

Float Girl (uncredited)

1969

 

Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Sal Mineo, Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Widmark, Dolores Del Río, Carroll Baker, Arthur Kennedy, and Gilbert Roland in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Cheyenne Autumn

6.7

Entertainer (uncredited)

1964

 

Anne Francis, William Lundigan, and Clifton Webb in Elopement (1951)

Elopement

6.4

Reagan Girl (uncredited)

1951