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Victor Monroe Armstrong (born 5 October 1946) is a British film director, stunt coordinator, second unit director, and stunt double —the world's most prolific, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
Feb 11, 2016 · Armstrong is a stunt co-ordinator, stunt double, and director with five decades of experience in film. He has won a Technical Achievement Academy Award, and according to the Guinness World...
- Oscar Rickett
Vic Armstrong. Director: Left Behind. He was a stuntman for over 30 years having left school at14 and started working with his father and the intention of being jockey riding point to point but he grew too big.
- January 1, 1
- 1.83 m
- Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- 3 min
Vic Armstrong is a renowned British stuntman and film director known for his groundbreaking work in the film industry. He was born on October the 5th in Farnham Common, Bucks, England. With a passion for Action and Adventure from an early age.
- Not Quite Humans
- And The Horse You Rode in on
- Chasing Light
- Fighting Their Own
- Deeper Than Helm’s
- An Unexpected Influence
The world of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, lifted from the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, isn’t just populated by dumpy humans. There are athletic elves, heavyset dwarves, and the monstrously powerful (but slower) orcs that populate Middle-earth. The first order of business for craftsmen like Armstrong is to always consider who is moving ...
Galadriel, played by Morfydd Clark, has been one of the most capable heroes in Rings of Power. This characterization stems from Tolkien’s writings, where she was the mightiest and fairest of all the elves. As the Númenor army charges into the village, there’s a slick moment when Galadriel dodges an arrow whilst clinging to her horse and then slices...
It’s safe to assume one of the hardest parts of making an episode like “Udun” is logistics. How many horses? How many prop swords? How many extras? While this is true, one of the otherhardest elements was timing. More specifically, the timing of sunrise. “Not a stunt per se, but when the Númenorians come charging in on horseback, that had to be sho...
One of the more devastating twists in the episode was the reveal that the villagers weren’t actually fighting orcs, but their own fellow neighbors in disguise. (Recall that a large portion abandoned their fellow humans to join the orcs an episode prior.) Armstrong says that, in repeat viewings, it’s a dead giveaway that the “orcs” the villagers are...
Naturally, an episode like “Udûn” raises comparisons to the iconic Helm’s Deep in The Two Towers. But Armstrong wasn’t trying to let the stature of Helm’s Deep intimidate him. “They’re epic and they're great in their own right. Subconsciously, in my mind, I was trying to make us more organic,” Armstrong says. “[Give it] less of a feeling of CG.” Wh...
Armstrong’s career spans decades and multiple iconic films. But one mostly forgotten superhero bomb Armstrong worked as coordinator actually shares philosophical DNA with The Rings of Power: 2011’s The Green Hornet, directed by Michel Gondry. Like The Green Hornet, Armstrong says The Rings of Poweris about “taking reality and stretching it 15, 20 p...
May 16, 2011 · Indiana Jones and Superman have one thing in common: they were both Vic Armstrong, arguably the world’s greatest stuntman. That’s what his book says, and after reading it you’d be hard-pressed to dispute that statement.
May 18, 2011 · Vic Armstrong has made a career out of jumping from helicopters, falling off horses and leaping from trains — and he's got the scars to prove it. He tells stories from his long...
