Don Stroud

Donald Lee Stroud (born 1943) is an American actor, musician and surfer, raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He began surfing at the age of three and taught the sport while still in high school. In 1960, at seventeen, he won the Makaha Junior Championship and placed fourth overall in the Duke Kahanamoku International competition. Working as a lifeguard at the Kahala Hilton beach, he was hired to double for Troy Donahue in surfing scenes for Hawaiian Eye, which led him to Los Angeles and a long screen career of more than one hundred films and two hundred television shows, often as villains and tough guys. He also holds a black belt in the Hawaiian martial art Kajukenbo. In 1989 or 1990 he was stabbed while helping a mugging victim in New York City.