12 Inch Indiana Jones And James Bond

Download or read book James Bond and Indiana Jones written by Nicolas Fleurier and published by Histoire & Collections. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive guide to the entire action figure toys deriving from the two movie series James Bond and Indiana Jones. both heroes are gathered on one book, and the matter of collecting the toys is fully documented, with exhaustive listings for enthusiasts and collectors.

Download or read book The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman written by Vic Armstrong and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may not know it, but you've seen Vic Armstrong's work in countless movies. From performing stunts in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice to directing the actions scenes for recent blockbusters The Green Hornet and Thor, the Academy Award-winning Vic Armstrong has been a legend in the movie industry for over 40 years. Along the way he's been the stunt double for a whole host of iconic heroes, including 007, Superman, and most memorably, Indiana Jones - as Harrison Ford once joked to him, "If you learn to talk I'm in deep trouble." As a stunt co-ordinator and second unit director, Vic is behind the creation of such movies as Total Recall, The Mission, Dune, Rambo III, Terminator 2, Charlie's Angels, Gangs of New York, War of the Worlds, I Am Legend and Mission: Impossible III, to name but a few, as well as several Bond films. He's got a lot of amazing stories to tell, and they're all here in this hugely entertaining movie memoir, which also features exclusive contributions from many of Vic's colleagues and friends, including Harrison Ford, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Pierce Brosnan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Angelina Jolie, Kenneth Branagh and Sir Christopher Lee. With an introduction by Steven Spielberg, and over 100 previously unpublished on-set photos from Vic's own collection.

Download or read book My Exotic Youth written by Brian M. Lempriere and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having a British accent, people ask me where I am from and they expect me to say Oh! Im from England, so that they can follow up with I thought so!. Sometimes they say I thought perhaps that the accent is Canadian or Australian. I was raised by British parents in Mauritius, a British colony with French schools, and in Jersey, an island in the English Channel with a long French background but part of the United Kingdom for well over 200 years. My name comes from my Jersey heritage: my family had lived there for many hundreds of years, This book covers the Mauritius period of my life to about 13 years of age, and the Jersey period to about 16. At first it was about filling in the family record for my children and grandchildren, but family stories of hooliganism required me to refute these! Mauritius is a subtropical island where coconut palms grow down to golden beaches with warm blue water, where sugar-cane fields cover the countryside, where small monkeys scuttle along the river valleys, and where bananas, peaches and mangoes grow fresh for the picking a paradise to grow up in. Jersey is a small island quite similar to England in its ways, its flora, and its fauna no bananas or monkeys - but with French names for places and people, and French laws and habits. Being south of England, the climate is milder. Farming of market crops flowers, vegetables, and cattle flourish. Jersey bulls and cows draw huge prices. The adventures I had with my brother and several friends were mostly boyhood fun, but some came close to breaking our necks or breaking the law! While around 10 to 12 years old, we set off on a 10 mile hike through unknown river valleys hoping to reach our favorite beach, and only got home after midnight by the grace of God and a friendly trucker. Later, we clambered among 200 foot cliffs over the ocean to collect birds eggs. We set fire to cliff-top grass and gorse. We drove the car to a beach picnic when none of us was yet 13. Brian became an aeronautical engineer through study for a BSc degree at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, England, supported by a Ministry of Supply 5-year sholarship, then by winning a King George VI Memorial Fellowship to study in the USA for a MAe degree at The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, NY, USA. He later worked for a PhD degree at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, USA. His career in the aeronautical industry began as a Lecturer at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, near Bletchley, England, and then covered 7 years at the Lockheed Research Laboratories in Palo Alto, CA, and 26 years at Boeing Aerospace Co. in Seattle, WA. He has written many technical papers and, since retiring in 1995, a book on Ultrasound and Eastic Waves. He married Shirley Cawood of Brooklyn, New York and they now live in Seattle and Whidbey Island, WA. They have a son and daughter and three grand children. He can be reached by e-mail at [email protected].

Download or read book The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman written by Vic Armstrong and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No CGI can match what Vic can accomplish" - Steven Spielberg "Vic is The Man" - Pierce Brosnan "Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend" - Martin Scorsese "This is the best and most original behind-the-scenes book I have read in years, gripping and revealing. Vic Armstrong is modest, humorous and wry - altogether brilliant company." - Roger Lewis, Daily Mail "[A] page-turner... I couldn't put it down! I had a great time reading this book and give it my highest recommendation." - Leonard Maltin "[Vic has] been this unheralded savior of movie magic for decades, and hearing how he makes the incredible credible is a must for any film fan." - Hollywood.com "Armstrong's a fascinating guy and a straight shooter. His book is fantastic." - Ain't It Cool News "The man is a legend in the industry... [A] mind-blowing, must-read biography." - Movies.com "The movie memoir of the year!" - SciFi Mafia "[Vic] talks to you like he’s your cool uncle, or the uncle you wished you had, really down to earth, but at the same time you can tell he’s got a twinkle in his eye as he’s talking..." - Geek Six “A hell of a read.” – Film School Rejects "The key to an entertaining autobiography is a combination of good stories to tell and a distinctive life; Armstrong has them both." - Library Journal "Armstrong has done it all." - Empire "A spills’n’thrills ride through a fast-forward life in pictures." - The Times "Armstrong takes us on the spectacular journey of his life that left me wondering who would be brave enough to play him in a movie. What a legacy! What a life! What a book!" - Geeks of Doom -- Think you don’t know Vic Armstrong? Wrong! You’ve seen his work in countless films... He’s been a stunt double for James Bond, Indiana Jones and Superman, and he’s directed action scenes for three Bond movies, Mission Impossible 3, Thor, and the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man to name but a few. Counting Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger among his friends, and officially credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Most Prolific Stuntman, Vic’s got a lot of amazing stories to tell, and they’re all here in this - the movie memoir of the year!

Download or read book The Making of Star Wars written by J. W. Rinzler and published by Star Wars. This book was released on 2007 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coinciding with the thirtieth anniversary of the first Star Wars film and including long-lost interviews and photos, a work written by a Lucasfilm staff member reveals the challenges and dramas behind the movie's creation.

Download or read book Luck of Losing the Toss written by Frank Henson and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Henson grew up in poverty on the Whitehawk estate in Brighton. He didn't know his father and got into trouble at an early age. In the swinging sixties he became a paratrooper, then a hairdresser and a racing driver. Chance encounters led to work as a film extra, then as a stunt performer on some of the major films of the day. He had found his calling. Fifty years later he reflects on a life in the movies and on TV, as one of Britain's best-loved stunt performers. Here he describes his early life and his route into working on some of the most successful films of all time, including Return fo the Jedi and Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom. He's also worked with some of cinema's biggest stars including John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Pierce Brosnan. The Luck of Losing the Toss contains photos from Frank's private collection, published here for the first time. Today Frank lives on his farm in Sussex and still makes the odd cameo appearance as a stunt performer in films.

Download or read book Stuntman! written by Hal Needham and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic no-holds-barred memoir from Hollywood's most legendary stuntman -- an inspiration for Brad Pitt's character Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- is "full of incredible stories as told by a real man of action" (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Yep that's me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames right down your throat. I was Hollywood's highest paid stuntman so I should know. I wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, and along the way broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth...I hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in The Spirit of St. Louis, jumped between galloping horses in Little Big Man, set a world record for a boat stunt on Gator, jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial, was the first human to test the car airbag-and taught John Wayne how to really throw a movie punch. Life also got exciting outside of the movie business. I had my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose, flew in a twin-engine Cessna with a passed out pilot, rescued the cast and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, and once took six flight attendants on a date. I owned the Skoal-Bandit NASCAR race team, the sound-barrier breaking Budweiser Rocket Car and drove a souped-up, fake ambulance in a "little" cross-country race called The Cannonball Run, which became the movie I directed by the same name. Oh yeah, I also directed Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper and several other action/comedy movies that I liked a bunch. I was a sharecropper's son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. That journey was a tough row to hoe. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. I was never late to the set and did whatever I had to do to get the job done. Hollywood's not all sunglasses and autographs. Let me tell you a few stories...