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Simon Crane
Actor, Producer, Director, Additional Credits
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.
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.
Simon Crane Filmography
| 1997 | Titanic · as 4th Officer Boxhall |
| 1995 | GoldenEye · as Lt. François Brouse - Tiger Helicopter Pilot |
| 1992 | Blue Ice · as Secret Serviceman |
| 1992 | Alien³ · as Prisoner |
| 1990 | Total Recall · as Richter's Subway Agent |
| 1987 | The Living Daylights · as Gibraltar Soldier #1 |
| 1986 | |
| 1985 | Death Wish 3 · as Cop |
| 1985 | Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series) · as Policeman |
| 1962 | Z Cars (TV Series) · as Michael Bowman |
| 2011 | In the Land of Blood and Honey · as Associate Producer |
| 2008 | Jumper · as Associate Producer |
| 2016 | Jason Bourne: The Athens Escape · as Self |
| 2016 | Jason Bourne: Las Vegas Showdown · as Self |
| 2004 | The Making of 'Troy' · as Self |
| 2002 | Best Ever Bond · as Self |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 | The Bond Cocktail · as Self |
| 1999 | Building a Better Mummy · as Self |
| 1999 | |
| 1995 | GoldenEye: The Secret Files · as Self |
| 1992 | HBO First Look (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2016 | Invisible (TV Series) |
| 2024 | The Instigators · as Second Unit Director |
| 2021 | Infinite · as Second Unit Director |
| 2021 | Chaos Walking · as Second Unit Director |
| 2020 | Dolittle · as Second Unit Director |
| 2019 | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil · as Second Unit Director |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw · as Second Unit Director |
| 2018 | Robin Hood · as Second Unit Director |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story · as Second Unit Director |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War · as Second Unit Director |
| 2014 | Maleficent · as Second Unit Director |
| 2014 | Edge of Tomorrow · as Second Unit Director |
| 2013 | World War Z · as Second Unit Director |
| 2012 | Men in Black³ · as Second Unit Director |
| 2010 | Salt · as Second Unit Director |
| 2009 | Surrogates · as Second Unit Director |
| 2008 | Bedtime Stories · as Second Unit Director |
| 2008 | Hancock · as Second Unit Director |
| 2008 | Jumper · as Second Unit Director |
| 2007 | Stardust · as Second Unit Director |
| 2006 | X-Men: The Last Stand · as Second Unit Director |
| 2005 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith · as Second Unit Director |
| 2004 | Troy · as Second Unit Director |
| 2003 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life · as Second Unit Director |
| 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines · as Second Unit Director |
| 2002 | Enough · as Second Unit Director |
| 2001 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider · as Second Unit Director |