Robbie Knievel, son of daredevil Evel Knievel, has died. The second-generation daredevil and motorcyclist was 60 years old. Robbie died on Friday, January 13 in Reno, Nevada of pancreatic cancer. His older brother, Kelly Knievel, told CBS News he died after being in hospice care for three days. “It was expected,” Kelly told CBS News. “He was in Reno with his three daughters by his side.” Kelly said that daredevils like his late father and brother “don’t live easy lives, but it’s what they do.” Evel (full name Robert Craig Knievel) died of pulmonary fibrosis in 2007 at the age of 69. “He was a great daredevil,” Kelly said. “If you look at his jumps, that’s what he should be known for. It’s what he loved doing.” Robbie (full name Robert Edward Knievel III) was known by the nickname “Kaptain Robbie Knievel.” He completed more than 350 motorcycle jumps and set...
- 1/13/2023
- TV Insider
Robbie Knievel, the second-generation motorcyclist and daredevil who jumped the fountains of Caesars Palace and the Grand Canyon in the high-flying bootstraps of his father, Evel Knievel, has died. He was 60.
Knievel died Friday in Reno, Nevada, after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his brother, Kelly Knievel, told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Daredevils don’t lead an easy life,” he said. “Every time they finish a jump, they have to come up with another one. They are entertainers, after all.”
Twenty-two years after his father crashed spectacularly in a stunt at the newly opened Caesars Palace on New Year’s Eve, Knievel successfully cleared the hotel fountains in Las Vegas in April 1989 and exclaimed, “That was for you, Dad.”
In 1999, he and his motorcycle soared a personal record of 228 feet over the Grand Canyon, but he broke his leg on the landing. His father had tried to make it over the...
Knievel died Friday in Reno, Nevada, after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his brother, Kelly Knievel, told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Daredevils don’t lead an easy life,” he said. “Every time they finish a jump, they have to come up with another one. They are entertainers, after all.”
Twenty-two years after his father crashed spectacularly in a stunt at the newly opened Caesars Palace on New Year’s Eve, Knievel successfully cleared the hotel fountains in Las Vegas in April 1989 and exclaimed, “That was for you, Dad.”
In 1999, he and his motorcycle soared a personal record of 228 feet over the Grand Canyon, but he broke his leg on the landing. His father had tried to make it over the...
- 1/13/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A lawsuit filed by motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel’s son, Kelly Knievel, against Disney has been dismissed. Kelly accused Disney of using Knievel’s likeness without permission with the character Duke Caboom in Toy Story 4. Although Knievel was not referred to by name, in the movie Duke Caboom was a 1970s action figure for the “greatest Canadian […]
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- 10/1/2021
- by XY Zhou
- Uinterview
Evel Knievel’s son is suing Disney for trademark infringement accusing the studio of using his father’s likeness for the Duke Caboom character voiced by Keanu Reeves in “Toy Story 4” without permission.
The lawsuit, obtained by TheWrap and filed by Kelly Knievel on behalf of K & K Promotions, makes comparisons between Duke Caboom and Knievel, sharing side by side images of Knievel in his signature white costume alongside pictures of the toy Duke Caboom and says the character is clearly patterned after the daredevil.
Though it never refers to Knievel by name, “Toy Story 4” refers to Duke Caboom as a 1970s toy based on Canada’s greatest stuntman. And the lawsuit even compares a commercial seen in the film for the Duke Caboom Stunt Cycle to a real commercial and toy modeled after Knievel and was released in 1973. There have even been other toys and merchandise of...
The lawsuit, obtained by TheWrap and filed by Kelly Knievel on behalf of K & K Promotions, makes comparisons between Duke Caboom and Knievel, sharing side by side images of Knievel in his signature white costume alongside pictures of the toy Duke Caboom and says the character is clearly patterned after the daredevil.
Though it never refers to Knievel by name, “Toy Story 4” refers to Duke Caboom as a 1970s toy based on Canada’s greatest stuntman. And the lawsuit even compares a commercial seen in the film for the Duke Caboom Stunt Cycle to a real commercial and toy modeled after Knievel and was released in 1973. There have even been other toys and merchandise of...
- 9/25/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Evel Knievel once said that he “would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.” The legendary stunt rider’s son is clearly taking those words to heart with a new lawsuit against Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar over the Duke Caboom character introduced in last year’s Toy Story 4.
“Defendants have used in commerce, and continue to use in commerce, the likeness, reputation, and image of Evel Knievel in the film Toy Story 4 through Defendants’ depiction of Duke Caboom, and has exploited the same connection through marketing, promotion, advertising, and sales of Toy Story 4, and in connection with the manufacturing, distribution, marketing, advertising, promotion, and sales of the Duke Caboom action figure, all without the consent or approval of K&k,” claims the trademark-infringement complaint filed this week in federal court in Las Vegas, the site of many of Evel’s most death-defying exploits.
“Defendants have used in commerce, and continue to use in commerce, the likeness, reputation, and image of Evel Knievel in the film Toy Story 4 through Defendants’ depiction of Duke Caboom, and has exploited the same connection through marketing, promotion, advertising, and sales of Toy Story 4, and in connection with the manufacturing, distribution, marketing, advertising, promotion, and sales of the Duke Caboom action figure, all without the consent or approval of K&k,” claims the trademark-infringement complaint filed this week in federal court in Las Vegas, the site of many of Evel’s most death-defying exploits.
- 9/25/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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