John Daheim on AllMovie

A top Hollywood stunt man, stunt coordinator, and action bit player from 1939-1981, John Daheim changed his name to John Day and played the lead in a 1946 B-movie, Detour to Danger. He later became the stunt coordinator/stunt man on hundreds of television shows and in such feature films as The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Earthquake (1974), The Hindenburg (1975), Rollercoaster (1977), and Going Ape! (1981).