Stunt doubles

In fact, it is stuntman Bob Simmons doubling for Connery in these pre-credits shots. Now, director Guy Hamilton recalls the next sequence which was filmed at Eden Rock Beach in Cap d'Antibes. That was shot in the south of France. The thing that I enjoy about that is how you can remove a lady's brassiere without getting any sensor problems because that was one of the absolute basic things about Bond that you had to have

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In the upcoming shots, when the patient rises out of the mud, it is Bill Morgan. Director Guy Hamilton recalls shooting the scene. This is all at Pinewood Studios. The stuntman was never very keen on coming out from all that muck, but it's lovely goo. The art department did a lovely job. Tom Mankiewicz recalls the difficulties faced by the stuntman in filming the mud cavern scene.

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Coincidentally, Guy Hamilton also worked on the third man as an assistant director. For the climactic chase through the sewers, Hamilton doubled Orson Welles. When the actor's shadow appears on the walls, it is really Guy Hamilton. Now Tom Mankiewicz recalls this scene which was shot on location in Dover. This fellow here, Mr. Franks, is a stuntman, a British stuntman with whom Sean's going to have a terrific fight. And since we didn't have a scene in M's office,

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Roger Moore

Now, when you look at a set like this... ... you know that the glass is going to get broken. Purely because the stuntman and the stunt arranger... ...don't have to pay for it.

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Roger Moore

The stunt work on this was done by Dickie Graydon... ...and by Martin Grace, my.... Who was then my stunt double, and then became the arranger... ...after this film. Dickie Graydon doubled me. And Martin Grace, who is just a fraction shorter than I am... ... doubled Richard Kiel. And it is attitude... ...that works. And Martin is a very, very good actor. In fact, he doubled in The Spy Who Loved Me. He doubled Richard Kiel on the top to the temple of Karnak.

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Roger Moore

Bob Simmons, who is a very, very good... ...fight arranger and stunt director... ...I've worked with him for many years as a stuntman. And I've worked with him.... Oh, I must have known Bob for 20, 30 years.

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This sequence was kind of difficult, because I wanted to have the bike actually do an endo, and we got it. Our sound man was an aspiring stuntman, and he did a good job there, because he just turned the wheels and went head over heels. He hit so hard, the wig that he was wearing went flying off. I tell everyone that's me. Oh, doing the stunt? I've been lying about that for years. Well, we'll dispel that one.

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Once again, here's Angus. No stuntman. Does all his own stunts in this film. Really deserves credit. This is very scary stuff. People are screaming. Yeah. We cut a little hole there for Angus's fingers to fit through. Just hear the clatter. I stood with my fingers in that position for two hours. I remember. About between 1 and 3 in the morning. That's the first appearance of yellow blood, which I think surprised everybody.

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That was a really, once again, without a stuntman, Bill's shooting at a loaded blank. And that's Lenny there, too, being pulled back by a rope. Yeah, no, he's in an actual jerk-off harness. We yanked him back in there. Home sweet home. And we're shooting out here back at the Dunsmuir Mansion again. And once again, you know, when I say we didn't have any stuntmen, we didn't have any stunt drivers either. It was usually, you know, one of the more

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Nick Pinkerton

The stunt coordinator on the film is Buddy Van Horn, a name that will be familiar to Eastwoodites. Van Horn was Eastwood's longtime stunt double, and the men had one of those semi-symbiotic relationships that sometimes occur between leading men and their doubles, the sort of thing that's very much at the center of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Van Horn was the stunt coordinator on all of Eastwood's films from 1972 to 2011.

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