StatsBirth Name: Victor Monroe Armstrong Age: 66, born 5 October 1946 Country of origin:  United Kingdom Height: 6' 0" Ethnicity: White / Caucasian Relationship Status: Married Partner: Wendy Leech
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Born: Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
Brother: Andy Armstrong
Spouse: Wendy Leech, stunt woman (? to present) - 3 children
A BAFTA winning British film director, stunt coordinator, second unit director, actor and stunt double - the world's most prolific according to the Guinness Book of Records.
The 6-foot Armstrong doubled for 6'1" Harrison Ford in the first 3 Indiana Jones films, 6'2" Timothy Dalton for 'Fla
Born: Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
Brother: Andy Armstrong
Spouse: Wendy Leech, stunt woman (? to present) - 3 children
A BAFTA winning British film director, stunt coordinator, second unit director, actor and stunt double - the world's most prolific according to the Guinness Book of Records.
The 6-foot Armstrong doubled for 6'1" Harrison Ford in the first 3 Indiana Jones films, 6'2" Timothy Dalton for 'Flash Gordon', George Lazenby for the Swiss Alps skiing scenes in the Bond film 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' and 6'4" Christopher Reeve in 'Superman' and 'Superman II'.
Reportedly, Armstrong looked so much like Harrison Ford that the crew members on the films 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' and Armstrong filled in for him. 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.
Armstrong's first movie as a director was the 1993 action film 'Joshua Tree' (a.k.a. 'Army of One') starring Dolph Lundgren and George Segal.
He is a famed stunt co-ordinator and action unit director, notable for (amongst others) the action sequences of several James Bond films, 'War of the Worlds' and 'I Am Legend'. Vic was also the opening scene director on 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'.
Armstrong met his wife, stunt woman Wendy Leech, while filming 'Superman II' when she doubled for Margot Kidder.
His memoir 'My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Action Heroes: The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman' was published by Titan Books in early 2011.
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