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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.
To discuss any proposals regarding
stunts, stunt co-ordination
or base jumping contact Stuntbase.
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
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