Born in Connecticut, Wilbur served in the U.S. Navy before taking a job as a ranch wrangler in Tucson, where he first appeared as an extra in El Dorado (1966) and was hired as a stand-in for John Wayne. Relocating to California, he built a four-decade stunt career that spanned more than a hundred film and television productions, doubling for actors such as Peter Graves on Mission: Impossible, Joe…
