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SU: Norman Howell: A Life on the Edge

Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille honorarium in perpetuum • 15 October 2021
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Steven Spielberg, Norman Howell and Sam Neill on Jurassic Park (1993)

From: Stunts Unlimited

The following is a Stunts Unlimited re-publication of an original blog post from Pietro Ricci of the Luckytownblog that can be read in both Itialian and English here: https://luckytownblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/19/norman-howell-una-vita-sul-filo-del-rasoio-norman-howell-a-life-on-the-edge/ 

 

Norman Howell: A Life on the Edge

 

Your biography states that at fourteen you had a rodeo career going – that makes me wonder, what was your childhood like?

I was very fortunate that I had horses since the age of five and by the time I was ten my father started a junior rodeo association and that was my early education in horse skills. We would practice at the ranch every weekend riding bulls and bucking horses, roping and bull dogging earning me numerous all around champion saddles and trophy buckles. I was also a medal winner in track and field and most valuable player in basketball. All of which set me up for a career in stunts. Read more >>

 

Norman Howell: A Life on the Edge
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