Bob Simmons (March 31, 1933 - 1988) was a stunt man best known for performing the James Bond gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene while not starring in the main role as James Bond. Simmons also had a role as Dr. No's henchman Ozzy in the first film Dr. No and SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of...
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Bob Simmons (March 31, 1933 - 1988) was a stunt man best known for performing the James Bond gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene while not starring in the main role as James Bond. Simmons also had a role as Dr. No's henchman Ozzy in the first film Dr. No and SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball. Up until his death in 1988, Simmons was the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and...
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