Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman (Abacus)Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman is new Britbox film that charts the rise of UK stuntmen in the Hollywood scene of the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties – who can be be seen falling, crashing and getting beaten up in the Indiana Jones movies, 007 franchise and Star Wars. We spoke to one of the documentary’s stars, Rocky Taylor, about doubling Sean Connery, learning to fight and almost dying – twice.Rocky Taylor learned to throw good screen punches by sitting in bed, tossing his pillows in the air and trying to hit them on the way down.“I’m a John Wayne style of puncher,” says the 76-year-old now. “I love fight scenes. It’s no good if you can’t throw punches. It’s like a dance routine.”Rocky Taylor with director Alan Parker – Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of The Great British Stuntman (Courtesy of the Rocky Taylor Archive)Taylor is one of the crop of British stuntmen celebrated in the Britbox exclusive documentary. After getting their breaks in British TV series like The Avengers and The Saint, he and colleagues including Jim Dowdall (the Stormtrooper shot when Luke and Leia swing across the chasm in Star Wars), Paul Weston (James Bond in the Dalton movies) and Vic Armstrong (every time it’s not Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones, it’s him) took the stunt world by storm, working on some of the most iconic action sequences of all-time.Read more:… Click below to read the full story from Yahoo Movies UK
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‘Hollywood Bulldogs’: Rocky Taylor, double for Sean Connery and Roger Moore, looks back on 60 years of stunts
