Stunts & stunt coordination

a musician who had worked on a couple of our other films. And he just said that, you know, if there's any way he could ever be put in a film where he could get killed. And I gave him the opportunity here. This is kind of interesting because the actress who did this part didn't want to do any of the nudity. So this is our first stunt person that's coming up here in the next cut, I think it is. There she is.

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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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a credit in the end credits for the new double. Yeah, so everybody understood that it wasn't her. There's somebody called Double Lavender, played by Laura Mann, I think it is, and that's her. Well, we're back in Chatsworth in the graveyard at night here. And the stunt person's back.

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I remember the stuntmen had a terrible time with this mud. It really hurt their eyes and gave them skin rashes and probably had more injuries out of this benign little stunt. Well, what we're trying to set up here is that there are going to be two Blofelds. He is going to make a clone of himself.

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One particular stunt in the car chase required special driving talent, so the producers brought in stunt driver Joey Chitwood. Chitwood would later contribute to the car and boat chase in Live and Let Die. Tom Mankiewicz remembers filming this stunt. When Joey Chitwood goes in, he goes in the wrong way. The car goes out the other way, and there is no way for a car to do that.

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I'd never ask him to do anything that I wouldn't do myself. But he would always be very cooperative, because for some actors, what I consider not really a stunt, you might be uncomfortable doing it, but he's got no fear of heights, which is a great thing.

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Roger Moore

This sort of stunt had not been seen on the screen before this as well. This was entirely new. We've had space shuttles and free fall.

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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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Wow. The car that we usually see in the exterior is an authentic racing car. All the cars were built by the same three people. One was a real racing car, absolutely capable of going out and racing. One was built with roll bars to do stunts, and the third one...

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You know, if not motherfucker, at least fuck is, you know, becomes like... I know what you mean. It's like the French saying allure. Right. Now, how did you keep everyone safe in these situations, Monte, when you have all these cars and... How was the production? How did you manage this? Well, I mean, the actual racing was usually done by stunt drivers. Mm-hmm.

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And if you can't make out the actors, then you can be pretty sure it's stunt drivers. But so much of the picture was shot with the actors actually driving, James or Warren, camera inside the car or just looking in either the driver window or the passenger window. And many times, if the angle allowed it, I was...

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Okay, yeah, they staged this. And if you pay attention, you're saying, look at the audience back there. I mean, everybody stopped to watch this stunt. But the guy with that sort of bicycle delivery thing, that could have happened because everybody thinks that they're entitled to their own right of way. So it's a great idea. It's a great bit. And I don't believe that happened in the book. I think it was a very canny,

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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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