PASSINGS : Edward Leo Adamek; Retired Stunt Man

Edward Leo Adamek, 77, a retired Hollywood stunt man and rodeo cowboy who worked in the John Wayne movie “Rio Lobo” and the TV series “Gunsmoke.” Adamek specialized in rope-twirling tricks and went to films from the rodeo circuit, which he entered at age 12. Adamek moved permanently to Los Angeles in the early 1920s at the height of the Western film craze and was seen in hundreds of them. In Valencia on Friday of cancer.