🎬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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	The Instigators (2024)	Director / Writer		6
2	Chaos Walking (2021) Most waited movies 2021	Director / Writer		6.7
3	Infinite (2021)	Director / Writer		5.9
4	Dolittle (2020)	Director / Writer		6.3
5	Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)	Director / Writer		7
6	Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)	Director / Writer		7
7	Robin Hood (2018)	Director / Writer		6.2
8	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Top 100 by FilmGator	Director / Writer		7.9
9	The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)	Director / Writer		6.3
10	Maleficent (2014) Oscars 2015	Director / Writer		7
11	Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Top 100 by FilmGator	Director / Writer		8
12	World War Z (2013)	Director / Writer		7.2
13	Men in Black 3 (2012)	Director / Writer		6.9
14	Salt (2010) Oscars 2011	Director / Writer		6.7
15	Surrogates (2009)	Director / Writer		6.4
16	Bedtime Stories (2008)	Director / Writer		6.2
17	Hancock (2008)	Director / Writer		6.6
18	Jumper (2008)	Director / Writer		6.2
19	Stardust (2007)	Director / Writer		7.3
20	X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)	Director / Writer		6.7
21	Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)	Director / Writer		6.6
22	Troy (2004) Oscars 2005	Director / Writer		6.9
23	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)	Director / Writer		6.3
24	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)	Director / Writer		6
25	Enough (2002)	Director / Writer		6.6
26	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)	Director / Writer		6.1
27	Inside 'Licence to Kill' (2000)	Self	-	-
28	Inside 'The Living Daylights' (2000)	Self	-	-
29	Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn (2000)	Self	-	-
30	Building A Better Mummy (1999)	Self	-	-
31	Titanic (1997) Oscars 1998	4th Officer Boxhall		7.7