
Simon Crane
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.
8
Films
2
TV Shows
Known For
10 Credits
Titanic
as 4th Officer Boxhall
1997

HBO First Look
as Self
1992

Dempsey and Makepeace
as Policeman
1985

Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn
as Self
2000

James Bond Down River
as Self
2000

Goldeneye: The Secret Files
as Self
1995

Inside 'Licence to Kill'
as Self
2000

Building A Better Mummy
as Self
1999

Inside 'The Living Daylights'
as Self
2000

Inside The Living Daylights
as Self
2000