Stunt Doubles
thenoisydrum
Posts: 84MI6 Agent
For fun I thought we could list some terrible stunt doubles from the Bond films. I can only think of a few at the moment:
1) The geezer playing Moore that gets pushed out of the plane at the start of Moonraker - he looks nothing like him and you can even see his tinted yellow shades! Such shoddy work I have always thought
2) Same scene, the geezer that plays Jaws with the bright white plastic teeth!
3) The bloke that acts a tiny part of the fight scene in YOLT as Bond where he fights the henchman near the Piranhas. You sort of see Bond from a distance and it so obviously isn't Connery. Why the hell is that? As I remember it wasn't a harsh or dangerous scene.
Can you think of any to add?
1) The geezer playing Moore that gets pushed out of the plane at the start of Moonraker - he looks nothing like him and you can even see his tinted yellow shades! Such shoddy work I have always thought
2) Same scene, the geezer that plays Jaws with the bright white plastic teeth!
3) The bloke that acts a tiny part of the fight scene in YOLT as Bond where he fights the henchman near the Piranhas. You sort of see Bond from a distance and it so obviously isn't Connery. Why the hell is that? As I remember it wasn't a harsh or dangerous scene.
Can you think of any to add?
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The guy playing Bond in YOLT scene is probably Bob Simmons, but I dont know who is in the Moonraker scenes. I didn't think it was too bad in the start of Moonraker but there were lots of bits in Octopussy and AVTAK where it obviously wasn't Roger Moore.
There is one stunt man who did a lot of Roger's sequences that looked very convincing I always thought. For example when Bond is being chased in FYEO after Gonzales has been shot by Melina he opens a parasol and jumps of a ledge. The guy that does that is a good double.
I believe that was Martin Grace who doubled for Moore and Paul Weston who doubled for Kiel.