Age: 84
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Stuntman, stunt coordinator, and actor Thomas Alvin Morga was born on November 27, 1941 in Burbank, California. While in college, Morga worked as a smoke jumper stationed in Missoula, Montana between 1969 and 1974. It was Tom's work as a smoke jumper that led to his first television appearance as himself in the documentary series Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1963) in which he saved a wild buffalo herd from a forest fire. Morga first began performing stunts in films and TV shows in the mid-1970's. Among the notable actors who Tom has doubled for throughout his career are Jeff Goldblum, James Coburn, John Travolta, Leonard Nimoy, James Keach, Patrick Duffy, Jonathan Frakes, Tim Robbins, Robert Urich, Bruce Boxleitner, Keith Carradine, Harold Ramis, and Steve Railsback. A member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures since 1982, Tom was the recipient of a well-earned Lifetime Membership Award from the Stuntmen's Association in 2012.
Tom Morga
Action and Stunt Coordinator
for Action and Stunt Coordinator in Iron Man: The Mandarin
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In 1978, sixteen years after donning the armor that defined a generation, Tony Stark has become a symbol of innovation, arrogance, and burden. The billionaire inventor, once hailed as the face of modern heroism, now finds himself hollowed by years of violence, addiction, and moral decay. When whispers of a deadly new weapon surface from the East—a nerve toxin capable of wiping out millions—Stark’s past comes roaring back. The Mandarin, the warlord he believed long dead, has returned from the ashes of Asia’s underworld, intent on unleashing his vengeance upon New York City. As panic spreads and governments falter, Stark must confront not only the enemy abroad but the corrosion within his own soul. Haunted by nightmares of the lives his weapons destroyed and the empire he built on blood, Tony’s war becomes personal. His armor—once a symbol of salvation—has become a cage of guilt and rage. Pursuing The Mandarin across the neon-lit streets of Hong Kong to the storm-swept skyline of Manhattan, Stark faces an enemy who understands him better than anyone else: a man who believes the West’s greatest hero is its greatest disease. As the toxin’s release nears, Iron Man must decide what kind of legacy he’ll leave behind—one forged in greed and metal, or one redeemed in sacrifice and fire. In a world choking on progress and power, Tony Stark learns that the cost of being Iron Man may finally be his humanity.
