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.
Best Ever Bond
(Self)
Inside The Living Daylights
(Self)
Titanic
(Fourth Officer Boxhall)
Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn
(Self)
Building A Better Mummy
(Self)
Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart': A Filmmaker's Passion
(Self)
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
(Self)
Inside 'Licence to Kill'
(Self)
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
(Self)
James Bond Down River
(Self)
HBO First Look
(Self)
Dempsey and Makepeace
(Policeman)
Bedtime Stories
(Second Unit Director)
Hancock
(Second Unit Director)
Chaos Walking
(Second Unit Director)
Stardust
(Second Unit Director)
Robin Hood
(Second Unit Director)
The Huntsman: Winter's War
(Second Unit Director)
Elizabeth
(Stunts)
Dolittle
(Stunt Coordinator)
X-Men: The Last Stand
(Stunt Coordinator)
X-Men: The Last Stand
(Second Unit Director)
World War Z
(Stunt Coordinator)
World War Z
(Second Unit Director)
Braveheart
(Stunt Coordinator)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
(Stunts)
Infinite
(Second Unit Director)
Infinite
(Stunt Coordinator)
Troy
(Stunt Coordinator)
Titanic
(Stunt Coordinator)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
(Stunt Coordinator)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
(Second Unit Director)
Maleficent
(Second Unit Director)
Maleficent
(Stunt Coordinator)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
(Stunt Coordinator)
Stardust
(Stunt Coordinator)
Saving Private Ryan
(Stunt Coordinator)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
(Stunt Coordinator)
Jumper
(Associate Producer)
Jumper
(Stunt Coordinator)
Cliffhanger
(Stunt Coordinator)
Cliffhanger
(Stunts)
Enough
(Stunt Coordinator)
Project: Shadowchaser
(Stunts)
Slipstream
(Stunts)
GoldenEye
(Stunt Coordinator)
In the Land of Blood and Honey
(Associate Producer)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
(Stunt Coordinator)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
(Stunt Coordinator)
Jumper
(Second Unit Director)
The Mummy
(Stunt Coordinator)
Dolittle
(Second Unit Director)
Fierce Creatures
(Stunt Coordinator)
The Instigators
(Second Unit Director)
Total Recall
(Stunts)
Edge of Tomorrow
(Second Unit Director)
Edge of Tomorrow
(Stunt Coordinator)
Men in Black 3
(Second Unit Director)
Men in Black 3
(Stunt Coordinator)
The Island
(Stunts)
Surrogates
(Second Unit Director)
Troy
(Second Unit Director)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
(Second Unit Director)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
(Second Unit Director)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
(Stunt Double)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
(Second Unit Director)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
(Stunt Coordinator)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(Stunt Coordinator)
Aliens
(Stunts)
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
(Second Unit Director)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
(Second Unit Director)
Robin Hood
(Stunt Coordinator)
Funny Bones
(Stunt Coordinator)
Hancock
(Stunt Coordinator)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
(Second Unit Director)
Alien³
(Stunts)
The Last Vampyre
(Stunt Coordinator)
Salt
(Second Unit Director)
Enough
(Second Unit Director)
Sherlock Holmes
(Stunt Coordinator)