Famous People You Probably Didn't Know Were Amputees

If you watched CSI, you were watching a double amputee at work most weeks. Here are 12 people you've probably seen on TV, heard on the radio or watched on a stage, who happen to be amputees, and for most of them it's not the thing they're known for. ON SCREEN. Robert David Hall played the coroner Dr. Al Robbins on CSI for 15 seasons, on 2 prosthetic legs after a 1978 truck crash. Aimee Mullins, Terry Ives in Stranger Things, had both legs amputated below the knee at age 1 and owns more than a dozen pairs of legs of different heights. Ruth Codd (The Midnight Club, The Fall of the House of Usher) chose a below-knee amputation in 2019 and was found by a casting director on TikTok. Eric Graise (Locke & Key, Tracker) trained as an opera singer before dancing and acting. Harold Russell lost both hands in a 1944 Army training accident and is still the only actor to win 2 Oscars for the same role, in The Best Years of Our Lives. MUSIC, FASHION AND DANCE. Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a crash on New Year's Eve 1984 and plays a custom kit with foot pedals; Hysteria came out in 1987, after the crash. Model Lauren Wasser lost both legs to toxic shock syndrome and walks on legs finished in gold. Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates lost his leg as a boy more than 100 years ago, danced on a wooden peg on Broadway, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show about 20 times and ran his own Catskills resort. SPORT, SCIENCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE. Jim Otto, "Mr. Raider", started 210 regular-season games in a row and later lost his right leg above the knee to an infection in an artificial knee. Hugh Herr lost both legs to frostbite after a 1982 climbing accident and now leads the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab. National Geographic explorer Albert Lin chose a below-knee amputation in 2016. Tammy Duckworth lost both legs when her Black Hawk was hit in Iraq in 2004 and went on to become a United States senator. This video is information, not medical advice. SOURCES. Interviews and reporting by ABC News, NPR, TODAY, People, Vogue, TIME, The Journal (Ireland), Modern Drummer, Ultimate Classic Rock, Blabbermouth, NFL.com, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the MIT Media Lab, National Geographic, the US National Archives, Encyclopedia.com (Contemporary Black Biography), the New York Almanack, the SC Picture Project, the National Women's History Museum and the subjects' own interviews shown in the video. LINKS. isbrave guide, famous amputees: https://isbrave.com/guides/famous-amp... FOOTAGE. All footage is real and credited on screen: ABC News; Bill Boggs; Bloomberg / The David Rubenstein Show; CBS Boston (WBZ); Def Leppard; Dorst MediaWorks, Bench to Bedside; Eric Ronquillo-Ruiz; FFTV with Grace Neutral; Girl Scouts of the USA; Gold Pictures, CinemAbility; Guardian News (Reuters footage); Inside Edition; Las Vegas Raiders; Lifestyle Magazine (Roy Ice), Ruta Lee interview; MacGillivray Freeman Films (Superhuman Body); MIT Media Lab; More Tap Dance (archival film); More Tap Dance (archival film, 1949); National Geographic; National Geographic (France); Netflix, The Midnight Club; NFL Films; NOVA, Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers (PBS); NowThis Impact (Northeastern University footage); On the Road (home movie, Peg Leg Bates Country Club, 1979); PBS Over Easy (1982); People; Raider Life Podcast; Rock in Rio / Multishow; Step Up: High Water (YouTube Originals); The Ed Sullivan Show (SOFA Entertainment); The Howard Stern Show; The Late Late Show, RTÉ; THNKR; TODAY (NBC); US National Archives, Diary of a Sergeant (1945); Vogue; Warner Bros. Entertainment, The Best Years of Our Lives; WIRED; WSPA 7News; Össur. The stickers are illustrations. Show, band and team logos are shown to identify each person's work and belong to their owners. If you own any footage here and would like it removed, contact us and it comes down. Chapters 0:00 12 people you've probably seen 0:33 Robert David Hall, CSI 1:32 Aimee Mullins, Stranger Things 2:31 Ruth Codd 3:17 Eric Graise 3:56 Harold Russell 4:48 Rick Allen, Def Leppard 5:34 Lauren Wasser 6:15 Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates 7:04 Jim Otto 7:48 Hugh Herr 8:33 Albert Lin 9:23 Tammy Duckworth 9:59 Who did we miss? #isbrave #amputee #famousamputees #limbloss #prosthetics #limbdifference