Vic Armstrong

Vic Armstrong was born on October 5, 1946 in Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England as Victor Monroe Armstrong.

Played the first Ninja to enter Blofeld's volcano while firing a machine gun in You Only Live Twice (1967).

Was George Lazenby's double and stuntman on On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), a period which he likes to refer to as 'The best days of my filming career'.

Doubled Roger Moore in the shark pool fight with Kananga in Live and Let Die (1973).

Worked with George Leech before meeting his wife, Wendy Leech, on the set of Superman (1978). All three were stunt doubles: Armstrong for Christopher Reeve (Superman), Wendy for Margot Kidder (Lois Lane), and George for the man in the burglar's office.

Rode the horse that plunged off the castle wall into the ocean in Never Say Never Again (1983).

Directed the opening scene of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

His three children with Wendy Leech, Bruce Armstrong, Scott Armstrong (who worked on the special effects crew in Die Another Day (2002), and Nina Armstrong, have all worked in film production and/or stunts. Discussing the family team effort for Die Another Day (2002), Armstrong said in an April 20, 2002, interview for Scotland's Daily Record about his sons (who were respectively 27 and 21 at the time), "I've got nothing to do with them - they are under another department. They loved stunts when they were younger, but they are mechanically minded. But my daughter Nina is a stunt woman and I worked with her in Charlie's Angels (2000)."