Rémy Julienne RIP (1930-2021)

[felixdeburgh]

Sadly, the legendary stuntman/arranger has lost his battle with COVID-19. He’s probably best remembered for The Italian Job as well as his work on six Bond films:

www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210122-james-bond-stuntman-remy-julienne-dies-from-coronavirus

RIP.

[Arch Stanton]

His stunt teams did some fabulous work. Particularly during the 1970s for me.
It’s almost as though you’d see a car chase or a car stunt in most European movies and lo and behold in the credits it was courtesy of Team Julienne.

RIP Rémy.

[pr1]

Rest In Peace

[Arch Stanton]

I’ll bet Team Julienne had a right laugh filming this (Watch Out We’re Mad - 1974)
Ragging and smashing all these motors.

Not his most accomplished work I’m sure but looked like a lot of fun, and probably a lot more technical than it appears.

[felixdeburgh]

Looks like an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard

[jjmolloy]

Did pretty much every big European action movie that needed a car chase upto the late 90s and beyond, this from Ronin, 1998, in Paris, is just bonkers, especially from 4 mins on. RIP.

                Ronin Paris Car Chase Full 1080p HD - YouTube

[winchesterclub]

Even if you don't recognise the name you are surely familiar with his work as a stuntman, stunt driver and stunt co-ordinator on dozens and dozens of films - The Italian Job (and as Michael Caine's stunt double) and notably half a dozen Bond films. Despite his risky occupation, he made it to 90.

[coyote]

Yeah, all those dangerous stunts and coronavirus finally gets him. Very sad indeed. But what a life and what an impression on so many people's lives.

I saw an interview with him about the jump from building to building on the roof of the Fiat factory in 'The Italian Job' where he said everyone thought he was mad and they were just waiting for him to be killed. Calculated, brave or crazy? You decide. But very impressive, whatever.

[NickP]

Once again I'm proud to say I worked with anther film legend, Remy was a master of his class and profession, I worked with him on a Fim called Regazzo D'oro ( Golden Boy) an Italian movie about a racing driver, a lot of the film was shot at Snetterton race track. Also, of course, he was heavily involved in several Bond's. A big loss to the Film industry, he was very down to earth guy who was very likeable. RIP mon pote

[Deleted]

He even did the smallish stunts in Smiley's People as well, but for Ronin alone 10/10 RIP.

[jno]

Sad news. RIP

[felixdeburgh]

Jan 25, 2021 22:51:07 GMT @simon said:

He even did the smallish stunts in Smiley's People as well, but for Ronin alone 10/10 RIP.

The car stunts in Ronin were brilliant but for someone who is one of the greatest actors that ever lived, I’ve never seen anyone look less convincing driving a car than De Niro. (As I’m sure most people are aware, the cars were actually right hand drive and fitted with false steering wheels in front of the passenger seats so it appeared that the actors were driving).


 

[NickP]

Felix, just remember most travelling car shots are filmed with the car on a special low loader, built for filming purposes, so some actors "acting" as well as driving probably don't give the driving as much attention. On Minder, we couldn't afford the all-singing dancing purpose-built film low loader, so we adapted our own one, the lowest trailer we could find and a spare Jaguar body, we then removed the wheels so the car appeared lower, strapped it down to the trailer, removed the engine so the engine bay was empty to allow the Director the operator, focus puller and the Camerman to be in the bay. Also, we built a lighting rig to illuminate the actors. The best thing was; that George and Dennis were both good at acting and driving at the same time. I've never noticed De Niro's driving expertise thing, but next time I'll have a look. Normally when car shots are in action I'm busy watching the backgrounds to look for continuity etc. Plus the height of letterboxes etc. The downside of being an Ex film technician comes with a lot of baggage that does sometimes spoil a film. Although, as my wife says occasionally when we watch a movie, you must have enjoyed that one as you never mentioned what they were doing wrong.    

[felixdeburgh]

Jan 26, 2021 15:27:19 GMT NickP said:

Felix, just remember most travelling car shots are filmed with the car on a special low loader, built for filming purposes, so some actors "acting" as well as driving probably don't give the driving as much attention. On Minder, we couldn't afford the all-singing dancing purpose-built film low loader, so we adapted our own one, the lowest trailer we could find and a spare Jaguar body, we then removed the wheels so the car appeared lower, strapped it down to the trailer, removed the engine so the engine bay was empty to allow the Director the operator, focus puller and the Camerman to be in the bay. Also, we built a lighting rig to illuminate the actors. The best thing was; that George and Dennis were both good at acting and driving at the same time. I've never noticed De Niro's driving expertise thing, but next time I'll have a look. Normally when car shots are in action I'm busy watching the backgrounds to look for continuity etc. Plus the height of letterboxes etc. The downside of being an Ex film technician comes with a lot of baggage that does sometimes spoil a film. Although, as my wife says occasionally when we watch a movie, you must have enjoyed that one as you never mentioned what they were doing wrong.    

I’m the same, Nick - driving is my area of expertise so I know how the body reacts to G-force at high speed when steering and how much steering you would need to apply to achieve a manoeuvre - so I can usually tell when someone is doing it for real and it was obvious to me that De Niro wasn’t. Something like that does take me out of the film for a moment as you describe. Fair play to you and your Minder crew though, there were very few occasions when it didn’t look like George or Dennis were actually driving in the series