Chris Pratt’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Stunt Double Tony McFarr Dead at 47

The Hol­ly­wood stunt com­mu­ni­ty is in mourn­ing fol­low­ing the death of Tony McFarr, the long­time stunt dou­ble for actor Chris Pratt in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” film fran­chise and beyond. He was 47 years old.

McFar­r’s moth­er, Don­na, con­firmed to TMZ that her son passed away unex­pect­ed­ly at his home out­side Orlan­do, Flori­da on May 13th. She described his death as “shock­ing” and “unex­pect­ed”, not­ing that he appeared to be “active and healthy” pri­or to his sud­den demise.

The Orange Coun­ty Med­ical Exam­in­er is cur­rent­ly con­duct­ing tox­i­col­o­gy tests to deter­mine the cause of McFar­r’s untime­ly death. He is sur­vived by his par­ents, sis­ter, and young daughter.

McFarr first teamed up with Pratt as the actor’s stunt dou­ble on the 2015 block­buster “Juras­sic World.” He went on to reprise that role in sev­er­al oth­er high-pro­file projects star­ring Pratt, includ­ing “Pas­sen­gers,” “Juras­sic World: Fall­en King­dom,” and the “Guardians of the Galaxy” sequels.

In a 2016 Insta­gram post, Pratt paid trib­ute to McFarr, call­ing him his “stunt-man” and express­ing his love for his long­time col­lab­o­ra­tor on the set of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.” The two had devel­oped a close work­ing rela­tion­ship over the years, with McFar­r’s stunt exper­tise com­ple­ment­ing Prat­t’s on-screen performances.