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Simon Crane

Simon Crane (born 1960) is a British stuntman, stunt coordinator, second unit director and film director. Crane has been a staple in the stunt world for decades working on several of the biggest action films and franchises in movie history, including several Bond films, Aliens, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Superman 4, Terminator 3, X-Men 3 and Men in Black 3. When filming Cliffhanger (1993), Sly Stallone paid $1 million dollars out of his own pocket for stunt man Simon Crane to slide between two planes on a cable at 15,000 feet (4.6 km) – making it the most expensive aerial stunt ever, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Like Vic Armstrong and the Powells, Crane has been very popular with the Bond Film Series. Starting out in A View to a Kill (1985), and then he became Timothy Dalton’s stunt double for The Living Daylights (1987) and then graduating to 2nd Unit Stunt Coordinator for License to Kill. Finally in 1995, he was hired as the Stunt Coordinator for GoldenEye, he’s been a 2nd Unit Director or Stunt Coordinator on every film he’s worked since. After the Bond franchise, Simon coordinated stunts for the Academy-Award winning films Titanic and Saving Private Ryan. In 2014, Crane won a SAG Award for Outstanding Action Performance By A Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture on the film Unbroken.


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Born:
In Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
Movie/TV Credits:
9
First Appeared:
In the movie Goldeneye: The Secret Files 1995-12-26
Latest Project:
Movie Best Ever Bond 2002-11-22
Known For
Poster of Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn
Poster of Building A Better Mummy
Poster of Titanic
Filmography
Movie Best Ever Bond Self 2002-11-22
Movie Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn Self 2000-01-22
Movie Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart': A Filmmaker's Passion Self 2000-08-29
Movie James Bond Down River Self 2000-02-26
Movie Inside 'Licence to Kill' Self 2000-10-17
Movie Inside 'The Living Daylights' Self 2000-10-17
Movie Building A Better Mummy Self 1999-09-28
Movie Titanic Fourth Officer Boxhall 1997-11-18
Movie Goldeneye: The Secret Files Self 1995-12-26