The beloved actor’s heartbroken household confirmed the information of his dying.
Max Kleven lifeless: Again To The Future star dies after sudden coronary heart failure in hospital sprint (Picture: ImDb)
Max Kleven, the Norwegian-born stunt performer and actor, has died aged 92. The on-screen star died on Wednesday of coronary heart failure at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, his household introduced. Max additionally labored as a stunt coordinator and second unit director with credit together with Our Man Flint, The Deep and Again To The Future trilogy.
His household stated that one in all his profession highlights got here when Steven Spielberg advised him, “I rent you to repair my motion pictures.” Max labored for the producer on the Again to the Future movies, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1980’s Used Automobiles and 2000’s What Lies Beneath, amongst different options.
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A ski jumper from Norway, he additionally labored on Bare Metropolis, Batman Returns and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Firstly of his profession, Kleven doubled for Paul Burke on ABC’s Bare Metropolis and for Glenn Corbett on CBS’s Route 66. He served as president of the Stuntman’s Affiliation of Movement Footage within the Nineteen Seventies.
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Born on August 16, 1933, in Trondheim, Norway, Max spent his early years on a farm together with his mom Jenny, and cousin Joni. He went on to affix the Norweigan Service provider Marine as a teen and moved to the US in 1951.
When he arrived in California and noticed the every day sunshine and palm bushes he vowed to by no means go away.
Based on IMDb, the primary film he labored on was the Oscar greatest image winner Across the World in 80 Days (1956).
Max did stunts for different movies together with Our Man Flint (1966), Murderers’ Row (1966), Who’s Minding the Mint? (1967), Charley Varrick (1973), Again to the Future (1985), Ruthless Individuals (1986), Species (1995) and Wild Wild West (1999).
Max Kleven, Stuntman, Second-Unit Director on ‘Rollerball,’ ‘Batman Returns’ and ‘The River Wild,’ Dies at 92 https://t.co/wSWSziypUQ
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 4, 2026
His résumé as a stunt coordinator included E-book of Numbers (1973), Dillinger (1973), The Deep (1977), The Changeling (1980), Footloose (1984) and Sleeping With the Enemy (1991), and he was a second-unit director on Raid on Entebbe (1976), Runaway Practice (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Again to the Future Half II (1989) and Half III (1990), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Spider-Man (2002).
Max is survived by his spouse Luz, his daughters, Valli and Celine, his son Erik and his grandson Hunter.
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