Simon Crane

Known for CrewBorn 1960-01-01 (age 66)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Saving Private Ryan

Sherlock Holmes

Inside The Living Daylights

Braveheart

Titanic

Aliens

Edge of Tomorrow

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart': A Filmmaker's Passion

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Inside 'Licence to Kill'

Stardust

Maleficent

Total Recall

Troy

Elizabeth

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

The Mummy

World War Z

The Last Vampyre

GoldenEye

Dolittle

Infinite

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Chaos Walking

The Island

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Enough

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

Men in Black 3

Salt

Funny Bones

X-Men: The Last Stand

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Cliffhanger

Hancock

Dempsey and Makepeace

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The Instigators

Building A Better Mummy

Alien³

Bedtime Stories

Jumper

Surrogates

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Fierce Creatures

Robin Hood

Goldeneye: The Secret Files