Trivia

Probably holds the honor of being in more films (albeit, often uncredited as a stuntman) than any other person in Hollywood history. Sharpe's film/TV resume, if complete, would likely total more than 5000 entries. Ranks with Yakima Canutt as Hollywood's premier stuntman.

In an early film appearance, the director secretly shot a scene rehearsal and printed it, to Sharpe's displeasure. From that point on he habitually rehearsed with a cigar clamped in his teeth so the rehearsal could not be cut into the film.

He was one of the members of Republic Pictures' famous stable of stuntmen. Republic would often have him doing double duty, playing his own character and also doubling for other actors in the same film.

Appeared in over 4,500 films, while working for every studio in Hollywood in a career that stretched seven decades. Sharpe told film historian Mark Hall, "When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses."

In 1943 Sharpe, then 32 years old, enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was trained as a fighter pilot. He shot down several enemy planes in combat. He was discharged as a captain and returned to Hollywood.

He won the US National Tumbling Championship in 1925, when he was 15. He won it again the next year.

Inducted in the Hollywood Stuntman's Hall of Fame in 1980.

Per his entry on the 1910 U.S. Census in St. Louis, his paternal grandmother was a Hindu woman from India.

Doubled Tony Curtis, Marlon Brando, Alan Ladd, Tyrone Power, John Derek and both Douglas Fairbanks and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

He and wife Gertrude Messinger had a daughter, Kathryn Sharpe.

Grand-uncle of Christopher Aber.

He has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Thief of Bagdad (1924), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The War of the Worlds (1953), & Blazing Saddles (1974).