Stunt Artist, Actor
28 July 1932 to 15 May 2021
A British stunt performer and coordinator, who was widely regarded as one of the world’s best at high-fall stunts, once holding the record for the highest fall on television (50ft), for Doctor Who story ‘Inferno’ (1970). His high-profile credits include a handful of Bond films, The Great Escape (1963), The Italian Job (1969), The Onedin Line (1971-1972), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Alien (1979) and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).
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