One of the world’s most important stuntmen, Remy Julienne, who worked on six James Bond films and the 1969 classic “Italian Job,” died at Covid-19 at the age of 90, friends said Friday. and family.
A veteran of more than 1,400 films and TV commercials as an actor or stunt coordinator, Julienne has been in intensive care at a hospital in her hometown of Montargis in central France since early January.
“It simply came to our notice then. He left us early in the evening (Thursday). It was predictable, it was on a respirator, ‘a relative told AFP.
Remy Julienne, a veteran, died at Covid-19 at the age of 90. The legend has worked on six James Bond films and has been involved in over 1,400 films and TV commercials since the 1960s.
One of his most memorable stunts – which made its name in the industry – was this jump over the alley between two buildings in the Italian Job.
He also arranged this amazing stunt in the 1981 James Bond movie just for your eyes
Julienne was born in Cepoy near Montargis in 1930.
French motocross champion, he began his film career in 1964, when he dubbed for the French actor Jean Marais in the film “Fantomas”, in which he was forced to ride a motorcycle.
“They needed someone very controlled,” he said of the experience. He became me. It was the beginning of a huge adventure.
His career flew over Venice, hanging from a rope ladder suspended by a helicopter, being hit in the face with a pumpkin while riding a motorcycle and countless car accidents.
He has doubled for some of the world’s most famous actors, including Sean Connery and Roger Moore, as well as top French names, including Yves Montand, Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
He worked on six James Bond films in total, including “GoldenEye” and “For Your Eyes Only,” in which he drove a heavily modified yellow Citroen 2CV during a memorable car chase.
Both as an actor and as a director of stunt sequences, which became the focus of her later career, Julienne has earned praise from some of the biggest names in cinema for her accuracy and creativity.
Remy Julienne, presented here with Roger Moore at Walt Disney Studios in Paris in March 2002
In his 1989 License To Kill, he arranged this stunt involving the destruction of an oil tanker. Julienne was famous for her belief that stunts should be real and not CGI dominated
“He has an absolutely incredible scientific understanding. He is a real scientist, Einstein of the stuntmen “, said the French director Claude Lelouch in a documentary for France Televisions, which marks Julienne’s 50 years in business.
A believer in real action rather than special effects, Julienne constantly worked to minimize the risks she took during her filming, but was seriously injured early in her career while filming a Colombian production. from Germany.
Lacking time to get out of a car before collapsing into a ravine, he ended up with a broken ankle that left him in bed for six weeks.
Once recovered, he would gain fame for his car tracking scenes in “The Italian Job” with Michael Caine.
“Fear is necessary before and after, but never,” he once said of the time spent on set.
His low point in his career came during filming for the French film “Taxi 2” in 1999, which he was watching, when a cameraman was killed by a car that missed the landing place after a jump.
Discussing her dangerous work, Julienne once acknowledged that fear was okay both before and after a stunt, but never during
He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in 2007 and sentenced to 18 months in prison, which was later reduced to six months and an order for damages of 60,000 euros to the victim’s family.
Julienne also helped police rebuild crime.
In 2000, he staged a reconstruction of the death of a British student, Isabel Peake, to try to determine how the young woman was pushed from a train bound for Paris.
Julienne said that the work “is very similar to cinematography, only here we are lucky to use mannequins, which takes some pressure.”