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Simon Crane

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.

Personal information

Birth Place

Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK

Movies and TV shows :

Best Ever Bond

Best Ever Bond

2002

5.0

Movie
Building A Better Mummy

Building A Better Mummy

1999

6.0

Movie
poster

Dempsey and Makepeace

1985

6.4

TV
Goldeneye: The Secret Files

Goldeneye: The Secret Files

1995

6.0

Movie
poster

HBO First Look

1992

4.9

TV
Inside 'Licence to Kill'

Inside 'Licence to Kill'

2000

6.8

Movie
Inside 'The Living Daylights'

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

2000

5.8

Movie
Inside The Living Daylights

Inside The Living Daylights

2000

8.0

Movie
James Bond Down River

James Bond Down River

2000

5.0

Movie
Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart': A Filmmaker's Passion

Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart': A Filmmaker's Passion

2000

7.2

Movie
Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn

Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn

2000

5.7

Movie
Titanic

Titanic

1997

7.9

Movie