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Mohr has acted opposite most big stars and is a personal friend of many of them.
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Mohr has interests other than film work. He is a serious book collector and has, for example, Anatole France's works in signed first editions.
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Before Gerald Mohr, the American actor who specialises in Westerns (Gerry to his friends), arrived at the first day of filming for the Swedish Western parody "Wild West Story", he told his Swedish colleagues of an experience he had had during filming.
"It was one of the last scenes of the film. It was recorded just as darkness fell over the location, which was out in the wilds. I was to ride a full speed on a narrow path. To the right I had a 30-metre deep precipice and to the left a mountain wall. I was being chased by two villains. As usual when recording such scenes, the camera would be "undercranked", that is to say, the camera was running slowly so that the riders on the screen would appear to be riding at full speed. I took my starting position. The start signal was a shot from one of the villains. When it sounded my horse went mad. He took the bit between his teeth and bolted. I had time to see the surprise of the crew behind the camera as I galloped by like a rocket! To the right the precipice, to the left the mountain wall. And then suddenly, right in front of me, a truck appeared! The horse was completely insane. At the last moment I tried to jump out of the saddle but the saddle horn got me in the lower abdomen, I fell to the ground and lost consciousness. The first I saw and heard as I came round was the director, who was bent over me, saying reproachfully: 'But you promised to ride by slowly!'"
He knows How
This story went around Råsunda (the location of the Swedish film studio Filmstaden) and, as is often the case with stories, it changed character as it passed from mouth to mouth. When it reached the ears of director Börje Nyberg it sounded like: "Our American star refuses to ride a horse! He is dead scared of horses and, besides, he can't ride!" No wonder Nyberg and his crew waited with fear on the first day of shooting. So, Gerry Mohr arrived, swung onto his horse and performed some tricks that had Carli Tornehave and Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt gasping with admiration.
Of course Gerald Mohr can ride. After more than 100 films set in the American West he knows how. Previously, he even did stunts - rolling down precipices, riding through burning buildings, being ridden over by "Indians" etc. Nowadays he considers himself too valuable for such stunts. To be able to ride and handle a gun are important skills for those who act in Western movies. The latter requires long practice. You cannot pick up a gun like you do a good cigar (sic). Hollywood's special "revolver teacher" is called Rod Redwing - a genuine Indian who knows how to draw a gun and who has taught the art to a couple of generations of Western heroes in the celluloid business.
