<Tr> <Th> Home town </Th> <Td> Brecksville, Ohio </Td> </Tr> <P> Ryan Matthew Dunn (June 11, 1977--June 20, 2011) was an American stunt performer, television personality, comedian, actor, writer, musician, and one of the stars of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass . </P> <P> Dunn rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the CKY Crew with his long - time friend, Bam Margera, for their extreme stunts and pranks recorded on camera, which led to the rise of Jackass and its subsequent three feature films . Dunn also hosted Homewrecker and Proving Ground, and appeared in the feature films Blonde Ambition and Street Dreams, as well as in Margera's films Haggard and Minghags . Dunn died in a car crash in 2011 . </P> <P> Dunn took part in the characteristic stunts that made Jackass famous, and featured in all three released films, Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two and Jackass 3D . </P>

Jackass' cast member dies in car crash