Lathan McKay

Lathan McKay is an American film and television producer, historian, actor and writer, and co-founder of the Evel Knievel Museum. As a former professional skateboarder he has amassed the largest collection of Evel Knievel memorabilia in the world, which now resides at the official Evel Knievel Museum alongside Historic Harley Davidson. He started skateboarding as a child and became sponsored at fourteen, and inspired by Evel Knievel he spent a decade on the road as a professional, breaking for a year to attend college in Austin. He became a cinephile of 1970s films, inspired by existential films such as Cisco Pike, Night Moves, Charley Varrick and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, the films of Sam Peckinpah and above all Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop.