Simon Crane

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Simon Crane (born 1960) is a British stuntman, stunt coordinator, second unit director and film director.

Biography

Born in

.

Career

Crane's first major work came in the 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill. In 1987 he became Timothy Dalton's stunt double in The Living Daylights. He also played the character of Che Che in a reenactment of the "gatecrasher" fight scene from On Her Majesty's Secret Service traditionally used to test the fighting skills of actors up for the part of James Bond. Vic Armstrong coordinated the fight. Actors believed to have tested opposite Crane in the screen tests include Mark Greenstreet, Sam Neill and Pierce Brosnan.

After spending five years as the

of 4,572 m (15,000 ft).

In 1995 he became the overall stunt coordinator for

, with Vic Armstrong as second unit director.

Crane also took the role of stunt coordinator in

Hancock

(2008). He was to make his directorial début directing a film adaptation of the popular video game, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men but departed from the project.^[2] Crane directed the 3-D supernatural thriller The Peak,^[3] which was based on a screenplay from Neal Marshall Stevens^[4] and Crane worked with Will Smith again as second unit director and stunt coordinator on Men in Black 3.

Filmography

Year	Title	Stunts	Second unit director	Director
1990	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Yes	No	Kevin Reynolds
1994	Frankenstein	Yes	Yes	Kenneth Branagh
1995	Braveheart	Yes	No	Mel Gibson
	GoldenEye	Yes	No	Martin Campbell
1996	101 Dalmatians	Yes	No	Stephen Herek
1997	Titanic	Yes	No	James Cameron
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Yes	No	Steven Spielberg
1999	The Mummy	Yes	No	Stephen Sommers
	The World Is Not Enough	Yes	No	Michael Apted
2000	Vertical Limit	Yes	Yes	Martin Campbell
2001	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider	Yes	Yes	Simon West
2002	Enough	Yes	Yes	Michael Apted
2003	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines	Yes	Yes	Jonathan Mostow
	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life	Yes	Yes	Jan De Bont
	Beyond Borders	Yes	Yes	Martin Campbell
2004	Troy	Yes	Yes	Wolfgang Petersen
2005	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Yes	Yes	Doug Liman
2006	X-Men: The Last Stand	Yes	Yes	Brett Ratner
2007	Stardust	Yes	Yes	Matthew Vaughn
2008	Quantum of Solace	No	Yes	Marc Forster
	Jumper	Yes	Yes	Doug Liman
	Bedtime Stories	No	Yes	Adam Shankman
	Hancock	Yes	Yes	Peter Berg
2009	Surrogates	No	Yes	Jonathan Mostow
2011	Your Highness	Yes	Yes	David Gordon Green
2012	Men in Black 3	Yes	Yes	Barry Sonnenfeld
2013	World War Z	Yes	Yes	Marc Forster
2014	Maleficent	Yes	Yes	Robert Stromberg
	Edge of Tomorrow	Yes	Yes	Doug Liman
2016	Jason Bourne	No	Yes	Paul Greengrass
	The Huntsman: Winter's War	No	Yes	Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	Yes	Yes	Gareth Edwards
2018	Robin Hood	Yes	No	Otto Bathurst
2019	Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw	Yes	Yes	David Leitch
	Maleficent: Mistress of Evil	Yes	Yes	Joachim Rønning
2020	Dolittle	Yes	Yes	Stephen Gaghan
2021	Chaos Walking	Yes	Yes	Doug Liman
	Infinite	Yes	Yes	Antoine Fuqua

Actor:

• The Living Daylights (1987) – Gibraltar Soldier #1 (uncredited)
• Blue Ice (1992) – Secret Serviceman (uncredited)
• GoldenEye (1995) – Lt. François Brouse – Tiger Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
• Titanic (1997) – 4th Officer Joseph Boxhall

References

External links

• Simon Crane at
  IMDb