carmichael played as a stuntman in more than 50 movies including "jim thorpe – all-american" for burt lancaster (1951), "saturday's hero" (1951), "all-american" (1953), "pork chop hill" (1959), "it started with a kiss" (1959), "the big operator" (195), "elmer gantry" (1960), one of the doubles for kirk douglas in "spartacus" (1960), "birdman of alcatraz" (1962), "son of flubber" (1962), "how the west was won" (1962), and the tv show "rawhide".