Gary Connery is a professional stuntman and base jumper has made countless appearances on the TV and cinema screen on a UK and and international basis working on movies such as Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Harry Potter, The Beach, the Bond movie "Die another Day" by contrast, the spoof spy thriller "Johnny Engish.

On the TV screen he has featured as stuntman in the soap Coronation Street, Prime Suspect, Spooks, Silent Witness, Inspector Lynley, The Bill, Waking the Dead, Taggart, Torchwood ,Vincent, Monarch of the Glen, Wire in the Blood, Foyles War and Hornblower to name but a few.

Gary, with hundreds of credits to his name is much in demand and has association membership with EQUITY and is a full member of the Equity stunt register, both for the performance and also the co-ordination of stunts doubling actors or as a casted character.

BASE Jumping is the sport of parachuting from fixed objects such as bridges and cliffs. BASE is an acronym standing for Building, Aerial, Span, Earth, these being the four objects that must be jumped in order to qualify for a BASE number.

Gary has been base jumping for several years.
He has previously ridden off Beachy Head on a mountain bike and parachuted from London's Nelson's Column the Eiffel Tower in Paris, from inside the top of the Millennium Dome and more recently attracted huge publicity when he base jumped from the London Eye after swimming the Thames, climbing up the internationally recognised London icon and throwing himself off the top parachuting safely to the ground from the 443ft high wheel dressed in a James Bond style black tuxedo.

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Father of two Gary is also a qualified helicopter pilot and has even inspired his own twelve year old son twelve Kali to follow in his basejumping footsteps. Kali has been performing stunts since the tender age of six read more...