DICK WARLOCK STUNTMAN/ACTOR (Retired) BIOGRAPHY Dick was born in the small town of Oakley, just outside of Cincinnati Ohio, in the year 1940. He moved around the Cincinnati area until his family settled in Madisonville.
Eventually Dick abandoned professional skating because the money was lousy. He was more interested in marriage and made more money working nights at American Airlines. On one weekend he and his fiancé went to a Movie Ranch called Corriganville. He was instantly taken by what he experienced. Grown men dressed up in cowboy outfits playing shootem up in front of about 3000 people. After watching the shows and Dicks reaction, his fiancé asked him to speak to the people in charge about working there. Thinking it an excellent idea, he spoke with a man named Charlie Aldrich who was The Man. Charlie had complete control over who was hired and who was not. At the time it was very late in the day and The Man was very busy. He asked Dick to come back the next weekend to talk to him. Every weekend Dick played shootem up with those two very good friends. Both had taken him under their wings to help forge his career as a stuntman/actor. After leaving The Ranch as Corriganville was fondly called, Jerry would take Dick around to the various studios introducing him to casting people and other stuntmen. One of those people was a fellow named Bill Ward. Bill asked Dick (with the idea being planted by Jerry) to be a part of a movie that he had written with plans to produce and direct. The title of this film was Ballad of a Gunfighter starring Mr. El Paso himself, Marty Robbins. This was Dicks chance for eligibility into the Screen Actors Guild, which was very hard to get into. It was necessary to belong to this guild, which is actually a Union, to work in front of the camera as an actor or stunt person. | |
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