About Lee Barnes
Lived 1906 – 1970 (aged 64). Lee Barnes was an American athletics competitor.
Lee Stratford Barnes (July 16, 1906 – December 28, 1970) was an American athlete from Utah who competed in the men's pole vault. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and died in Oxnard, California.
Barnes attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He competed in Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and won gold, beating fellow American pole vaulter Glenn Graham, who received silver.
Barnes has the honor of being the only known stunt double for silent film star Buster Keaton during Keaton's independent years of film making. In Keaton's 1927 feature College, Barnes performed a pole vault through an open upper-story window.
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Who was Lee Barnes?
American athletics competitor
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Lee Barnes was born on 16 July 1906 in Salt Lake City.
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Lee Barnes died on 28 December 1970 in Oxnard.
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Lee Barnes was an athletics competitor.
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Lee Barnes was American.
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