Rémy Julienne

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Rémy Julienne (2009)

Rémy Julienne (born April 17, 1930 in Cepoy , Loiret , France , † January 21, 2021 in Montargis , Loiret ) was a French stuntman . With more than 1,400 productions (including 400 movies, various television series and commercials) he is one of the world's most successful representatives of his field. For decades, Julienne was one of the world's leading experts in special auto stunts.

Life

Scene from the Juliennes show in " Walt Disney Studios Park " in Paris (2005)

Julienne began his career in motocross and won a number of titles here between 1957 and 1962 before making his debut as a stuntman in the film Fantômas in 1964 . Until the end of the 1990s he worked in many internationally very successful films with spectacular car stunts, for example in 1969 in the English cult film Charlie dusts off millions , in several Louis de Funès films - including, for example, B. Balduin, the Heiratsmuffel (1968) or The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973) - and most recently in the films Taxi (1998) and Taxi Taxi (2000).

In 1970 he shot a commercial as a protagonist for the FIAT Model 124. In 1973, film producer Mario Cortesi dedicated a half-hour documentary to him with the title He dies 1000 deaths .

Between 1981 and 1995 he was also responsible for the stunt coordination of the James Bond films In Deadly Mission (1981), Octopussy (1983), In the Face of Death (1985), The Living Daylight (1987), License to Kill ( 1989) and Goldeneye (1995) responsible.

A serious incident occurred in 1999 while filming Taxi Taxi when a cameraman was killed during a stunt. Julienne then accused producer Besson of having insufficient funds for the necessary security measures. In the judicial review, however, the main part of the guilt was attributed to Julienne, whom the court found guilty of incorrectly calculating the speed of the vehicle and the length of the jump as the stunt coordinator in the corresponding stunt. Julienne was subsequently sentenced to 18 months probation and a fine of 13,000 euros for negligent homicide; an appeals court reduced the sentence in 2009 to six months' probation and a fine of 2,000 euros.

In addition to his work for film and television, Julienne designed the stunt show “Moteurs… Action!” In the Paris “ Walt Disney Studios Park ”, in which a car stunt is shown up to five times a day, which is then shown in a “cinema version “Is shown on the screen.

Rémy Julienne competed in several sports car races in the 1970s . Lower other things, he has 1,976 total Sixteenth in the World Sportscar Championship this year, scoring six-hour race at Dijon .

Julienne died in January 2021 at the age of 90 from complications from a COVID-19 infection.

Quotes

"You have to have cars and people involved in the right place at the right time and choreograph like a ballet, then nothing can go wrong."

Filmography (selection)

Peugeot 406 from the movie Taxi , where Julienne coordinated the car stunts

Motorsport statistics

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13th 14th 15th 16 17th
1976 Bourgogne BMW 3.5 CSL ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly VAL GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL ItalyItaly IMO GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria ZEL ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States WAT CanadaCanada MOS FranceFrance DIJ FranceFrance DIJ AustriaAustria SAL
16
1977 Lola T294 United StatesUnited States DAY ItalyItaly MUG FranceFrance DIJ ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly VAL ItalyItaly BY United StatesUnited States WAT PortugalPortugal EST FranceFrance LEC CanadaCanada MOS ItalyItaly IMO AustriaAustria SAL United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH GermanyGermany HOK ItalyItaly VAL
DNF

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yannick Dehée, Christian-Marc Bosseno: Dictionnaire du Cinéma Populaire Français. Paris 2004, p. 457.
  2. ↑ Fatal accident while shooting 'Taxi, Taxi' has consequences. ( rp-online ( memento from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on April 26, 2011)
  3. ↑ Convicted of fatal stunt. ( blick.ch , accessed on April 26, 2011.)
  4. ↑ A man for all cases. (www.geo.de) , accessed on April 26, 2011
  5. ↑ Bertrand Guyard, Rémy Julienne, l'as des as de la cascade, est mort du Covid-19 à 90 ans , lefigaro.fr, January 22, 2021
  6. ↑ quoted from Die Stuntkoordinatoren. ( james-bond007.de ( Memento from July 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 26, 2011.)
personal data
SURNAME Julienne, Rémy
SHORT DESCRIPTION French stuntman
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Cepoy , Loiret , France
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2021
Place of death Montargis , Loiret