Rory Kinnear still weeps over father’s fatal film stunt 38 years later

Rory Kinnear says he is still moved to tears by the death of his father, actor Roy Kinnear, who died after a horse-riding stunt went wrong while filming in Spain. Rory was ten at the time and says his grief and anger at what he sees as an avoidable death became especially clear when he was 16.

Roy was 54 when he was thrown from a horse on a cobbled bridge during filming of *The Return of the Musketeers* in 1988. Rory says stunt performers had refused the scene, and a letter found by his mother described the danger; Roy later died in hospital after breaking his pelvis, and the family received £650,000 in damages plus costs after suing over negligence. The article also recalls Rory’s sister Karina, who died of Covid in 2020 aged 48 after a lifetime of severe disability.