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Rémy Julienne

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Rémy Julienne (17 April 1930 – 21 January 2021) was a French driving stunt performer and coordinator, assistant director and occasional actor. He was also a rallycross champion and 1956 French motorcross champion.

Julienne was born in 1930, the son of café owners in the town of Cepoy, 110 km south-east of Paris. During World War II, he was dared by children evacuated from Paris to ride a bicycle across the local canal, which inspired him to start riding motocross.

In his early 20's Julienne became French motocross champion in 1957, which brought him to the attention of eminent stunt co-coordinator Gil Delamare. Through Delamare, Julienne's first screen appearance in 1964 was replacing actor Jean Marais, and in 1966 he played a German army motorcyclist in La Grande Vadrouille.

After Delamare's tragic death during a stunt in 1966, Julienne stepped-in and agreed to fulfill contracts Delamare had signed with various film studios. Julienne's scientific approach which created spectacular on-screen images garnered him admiration within the industry in an age before computer modelling. Working initially in French film and TV, and occasional Hollywood films shot in Europe, his developing reputation led to his employment on the British film The Italian Job. Producer Michael Deeley later commented that “During our initial meeting with Rémy, Peter Collinson [the film’s director] and I were delighted to discover that he was prepared to take the chase sequence even further than we had envisaged, suggesting a different range of hair-raising stunts that could be written into the script.” Julienne planned and co-ordinated all of the vehicle sequences, including the epic Mini chase sequence through the streets and roof tops of Turin.

"Very often people ask, ‘what was my favourite stunt?’ I’d say the jump between the two Fiat factory roofs must be the one, because it was emotional, because it was difficult. We worked on the ground, we prepared the ramps, calculated distances, speeds etc. [Originally] it was decided I had to do three separate jumps in each Mini. I explained that, as the roof was very wide, we could make the three Minis jump all together… it looked much better as a shot. It was more complicated, but really amazing."

He resultantly became Hollywood's go-to vehicle stunt coordinator, best publicly known for his stunts on six James Bond films, five of which were directed by John Glen. Julienne became known for Bond sequences which made ordinary cars do extraordinary things, such as the Citroen 2CV in For Your Eyes Only, the Renault 11 in A View to a Kill, and the petrol semi-tanker in Licence to Kill in which a Kenworth performed a wheelie. "The tanker chase was the most dangerous sequence I ever devised” said Glen, who also noted that Julienne was fastidious in his preparation. ...

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Actor

The Eighth Day

1996

as Lorry driver

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

1986

as Chauffeur

Happy Easter

1984

as Le co-pilote (uncredited)

Dracula and Son

1976

as cascades

Watch Out, We're Mad

1974

as Matón motorista (uncredited)

The Magnificent Dare Devil

1973

Happy New Year

1973

as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

The Big Shots

1972

as Jérémy

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

1966

as Biker Receiving Pumpkin (uncredited)

Crew

The Da Vinci Code

2006

Stunt Coordinator

Maximum Risk

1996

Stunt Coordinator

The Eighth Day

1996

Stunts

GoldenEye

1995

Stunt Driver

Stories from the Kronen

1995

Stunt Driver

The Blonde

1993

Stunt Coordinator

The Little Apocalypse

1993

Stunts

Walking a Tightrope

1991

Stunt Driver

The Fatal Image

1990

Stunts

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

1990

Stunts

Frantic

1988

Stunt Driver

Man on Fire

1987

Special Effects

Easy Money

1987

Stunt Coordinator

Joan Lui

1985

Stunt Coordinator

Hold-up

1985

Stunt Coordinator

A View to a Kill

1985

Stunt Coordinator

Sheena

1984

Stunts

The Hawk

1983

Stunts

Condorman

1981

Stunt Coordinator

Inspector Blunder

1980

Stunts

Fantozzi Against the Wind

1980

Stunt Coordinator

Three Men to Destroy

1980

Stunt Coordinator

The Latest Scams of 'El Torete'

1980

Stunt Coordinator

Speed Cross

1980

Stunts

I'm for the Hippopotamus

1979

Stunt Coordinator

Démons de midi

1979

Stunts

The Police War

1979

Stunt Coordinator

Street Warriors II

1979

Stunt Coordinator

Cop or Hood

1979

Stunt Coordinator

Out of It

1978

Stunt Coordinator

State Reasons

1978

Stunts

Street Warriors

1977

Stunt Coordinator

Highway Racer

1977

Stunt Coordinator

The Wing or the Thigh?

1976

Stunt Coordinator

The Wing or the Thigh?

1976

Stunts

One Man Against the Organization

1975

Stunts

Blonde in Black Leather

1975

Stunt Coordinator

The Night Caller

1975

Stunt Driver

The Slap

1974

Stunts

Like a Pot of Strawberries

1974

Stunts

S*P*Y*S

1974

Stunt Coordinator

S*P*Y*S

1974

Stunt Driver

Littlefoot the Policeman

1974

Stunt Driver

Shoot First, Die Later

1974

Stunt Coordinator

Watch Out, We're Mad

1974

Stunt Driver

The Big Store

1973

Stunt Double

Happy New Year

1973

Stunts

Barcelona Kill

1973

Stunt Coordinator

The Insolent

1973

Stunt Coordinator

The Burglars

1971

Stunt Coordinator

Perched on a Tree

1971

Stunt Coordinator

Atlantic Wall

1970

Stunt Driver

Violent City

1970

Stunt Driver

Operation San Pietro

1967

Special Effects

Fantomas

1964

Stunts

Rémy Julienne

Actor

Documentaries

Directing

Crew