Known For
Crew
Born
Jan 01, 1960
Place of Birth
Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
Credits
58 titles
Simon Crane
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Instigators
Second Unit Director
Infinite
Second Unit Director
Chaos Walking
Second Unit Director
Dolittle
Stunt Coordinator
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Second Unit Director
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Stunt Coordinator
Robin Hood
Second Unit Director
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Second Unit Director
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Second Unit Director
Maleficent
Second Unit Director
Edge of Tomorrow
Stunt Coordinator
World War Z
Stunt Coordinator
Men in Black 3
Second Unit Director
In the Land of Blood and Honey
Associate Producer
Salt
Second Unit Director
Surrogates
Second Unit Director
Bedtime Stories
Second Unit Director
Hancock
Second Unit Director
Jumper
Associate Producer
Stardust
Second Unit Director
X-Men: The Last Stand
Second Unit Director
The Island
Stunts
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Stunt Coordinator
Troy
Stunt Coordinator
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Stunt Coordinator
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Stunt Coordinator
Best Ever Bond
Self
Enough
Stunt Coordinator
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Stunt Coordinator
Inside The Living Daylights
Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Self
Inside 'Licence to Kill'
Self
Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart': A Filmmaker's Passion
Self
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Stunt Coordinator
James Bond Down River
Self
Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn
Self
Building A Better Mummy
Self
The Mummy
Stunt Coordinator
Elizabeth
Stunts
Saving Private Ryan
Stunt Coordinator
Titanic
4th Officer Boxhall
Fierce Creatures
Stunt Coordinator
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
Self
GoldenEye
Stunt Coordinator
Funny Bones
Stunt Coordinator
Braveheart
Stunt Coordinator
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Stunt Coordinator
Cliffhanger
Stunt Coordinator
The Last Vampyre
Stunt Coordinator
Project: Shadowchaser
Stunts