Billy Hauber

One of the great stunt men of the silent era, Billy Hauber began his career with Mack Sennett's Keystone company in Eddendale, CA, where he played Mabel Normand's co-driver in Mabel at the Wheel (1913) and doubled several supporting actors in Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's Fatty's Flirtation. Hauber was also in Charles Chaplin's His New Profession (1914), as a cop, and Tango Tangles (1914), as a "flautist." Despite the fact that Larry Semon always claimed to have performed his own stunts, Hauber actually stood in for the whitefaced comic on numerous occasions, including The Grocery Clerk (1920) and the feature presentation The Wizard of Oz (1925). Hauber was reportedly killed in an airplane crash along with a group of fellow stunt men and camera operators. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide