Vic Armstrong
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| Vic Armstrong | |
| Born | October 5, 1946 Farnham Common, Bucks, England |
| Notable roles | As stunt double for Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones movies |
Vic Armstrong (born October 5, 1946) is a BAFTA and Academy Award-winning British stunt double, the world's most prolific according to the Guinness Book of Records. The strapping, 6-foot Armstrong doubled for 6'1" Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones trilogy, 6'2" Timothy Dalton for Flash Gordon and 6'4" Christopher Reeve in Superman II.
Legend has it that he looked so much like Harrison Ford that crew members of the Indiana Jones trilogy were constantly mistaking him for Ford. This proved useful when Ford injured his back and had to sit out for filming crucial action sequences in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Armstrong filled in for him. Indeed the stunt where he jumps from a horse onto a German tank in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was voted one of the Top Ten film stunts of all time by a panel of experts and Sky Movies viewers in the UK in 2002. On a private photograph taken on the film set, Ford infamously wrote to Armstrong, "If you learn to talk, I'm in deep trouble!"
He is the brother of Andy Armstrong and husband of stunt woman Wendy Leech, whom he met while filming Superman II (she doubled for Margot Kidder) and they have three children.
Vic's first movie as a director was the 1993 action film Joshua Tree starring Dolph Lundgren.
