Simon Crane
Crew
1960-01-01 · 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.
Filmography
The Instigators
2024 · Movie
Infinite
2021 · Movie
Chaos Walking
2021 · Movie
Dolittle
2020 · Movie
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019 · Movie
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
2019 · Movie
Robin Hood
2018 · Movie
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2016 · Movie
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016 · Movie
Maleficent
2014 · Movie
Edge of Tomorrow
2014 · Movie
World War Z
2013 · Movie
Men in Black 3
2012 · Movie
In the Land of Blood and Honey
2011 · Movie
Salt
2010 · Movie
Surrogates
2009 · Movie
Bedtime Stories
2008 · Movie
Hancock
2008 · Movie
Jumper
2008 · Movie
Stardust
2007 · Movie
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 · Movie
The Island
2005 · Movie
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005 · Movie
Troy
2004 · Movie
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003 · Movie
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2003 · Movie
Best Ever Bond
2002 · Movie
Enough
2002 · Movie
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001 · Movie
Inside 'Licence to Kill'
2000 · Movie
Inside The Living Daylights
2000 · Movie
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000 · Movie
Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart': A Filmmaker's Passion
2000 · Movie
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000 · Movie
James Bond Down River
2000 · Movie
Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn
2000 · Movie
Building a Better Mummy
1999 · Movie
The Mummy
1999 · Movie
Elizabeth
1998 · Movie
Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Movie
Titanic
1997 · Movie
Fierce Creatures
1997 · Movie
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1995 · Movie
GoldenEye
1995 · Movie
Funny Bones
1995 · Movie
Braveheart
1995 · Movie
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · Movie
Cliffhanger
1993 · Movie
The Last Vampyre
1993 · Movie
Project: Shadowchaser
1992 · Movie
HBO First Look
1992 · Series
Alien³
1992 · Movie
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991 · Movie
Total Recall
1990 · Movie
Slipstream
1989 · Movie
Aliens
1986 · Movie
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · Series
Sherlock Holmes
1984 · Series