The 6-foot Armstrong doubled for 6-foot-1-inch Harrison Ford in the first three Indiana Jones films, 6-foot-2-inch Timothy Dalton for Flash Gordon, George Lazenby for the Swiss Alps skiing scenes in the Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and 6-foot-4-inch Christopher Reeve in Superman and Superman II.
11 Facts About Vic Armstrong
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Reportedly, Armstrong looked so much like Harrison Ford that the crewmembers on the films were constantly mistaking him for Ford.
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Vic Armstrong is a famed stunt coordinator and action unit director, notable for the action sequences of several James Bond films, War of the Worlds, and I Am Legend.
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Vic Armstrong was the opening scene director on Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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Vic Armstrong was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2003 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at Pinewood Studios.
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In 2012, Vic Armstrong was Second Unit Director for The Amazing Spider-Man.
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Vic Armstrong worked on the 2022 Amazon Prime Video series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as second unit director and action director.
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Vic Armstrong is a long-serving member of the British Stunt Register.
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Vic Armstrong is the brother of Andy Vic Armstrong and husband of stuntwoman Wendy Leech, who is the daughter of fellow James Bond stunt performer George Leech.
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Vic Armstrong met her while filming Superman II and they have four children between them.
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Vic Armstrong has two children from his first marriage, and Leech has a daughter from her first marriage.