Wayne Michaels
Wayne David Michaels[1][2] (born January 1959[3][4]) is an English stuntman and stunt arranger. He performed the bungee jump in the opening scenes in the James Bond film GoldenEye. The opening 220 m bungee jump, shot at the Verzasca Dam in Switzerland, was voted the best movie stunt of all time as of 2002 and set a record for the highest bungee jump off a fixed structure.[5]
Apart from his work on a number of James Bond films, he has performed stunts on more than 60 British and international film and television projects during the 1980s, the 1990s, and the 2000s.
References
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584533/
- ↑ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/1225793|0/Wayne-David-Michaels/filmography.html
- ↑ http://www.opencompany.co.uk/company/02502093/the-stunt-company-limited
- ↑ http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=wayne&lastname=michaels
- ↑ "007's bungee jump tops best movie stunt poll". 2002-11-17. Retrieved 2006-11-12.