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Simon Crane
Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
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…
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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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2024
The Instigators
Movie Second Unit Director
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2021
Infinite
Movie Second Unit Director
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2021
Chaos Walking
Movie Second Unit Director
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2020
Dolittle
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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2019
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Movie Second Unit Director
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2019
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Movie Second Unit Director
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2018
Robin Hood
Movie Second Unit Director
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2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Movie Second Unit Director
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2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Movie Second Unit Director
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2014
Maleficent
Movie Second Unit Director
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2014
Edge of Tomorrow
Movie Second Unit Director
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2013
World War Z
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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2012
Men in Black 3
Movie Second Unit Director
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2011
In the Land of Blood and Honey
Movie Associate Producer
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2010
Salt
Movie Second Unit Director
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2009
Surrogates
Movie Second Unit Director
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2008
Bedtime Stories
Movie Second Unit Director
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2008
Hancock
Movie Second Unit Director
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2008
Jumper
Movie Associate Producer
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2007
Stardust
Movie Second Unit Director
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2006
X-Men: The Last Stand
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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2005
The Island
Movie Stunts
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2005
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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2004
Troy
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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2003
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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2003
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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2002
Best Ever Bond
Movie Self
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2002
Enough
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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2000
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Movie Self
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2000
Inside 'Licence to Kill'
Movie Self
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2000
Inside The Living Daylights
Movie Self
- 2000
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2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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2000
James Bond Down River
Movie Self
- 2000
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1999
Building a Better Mummy
Movie Self
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1999
The Mummy
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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1998
Elizabeth
Movie Stunts
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1998
Saving Private Ryan
Movie Stunt Coordinator
