Vic Armstrong Action Vehicles

Vic Armstrong founded Action Vehicles in 1986 at Pinewood Studios as the home for his coordination and second-unit direction work. Armstrong had spent the prior two decades doubling Harrison Ford on the Indiana Jones films, Christopher Reeve on Superman, Sean Connery on multiple Bonds, and a long roster of other lead actors; the shop formalised that career into a coordinator-and-second-unit-director collective.

Armstrong’s second-unit work covers the Indiana Jones cycle, the Bond franchise from Never Say Never Again through Die Another Day, the Mission: Impossible series, and Total Recall. He holds the Guinness World Record for "most prolific stuntman" and has acted as second-unit director on more than fifty features.

The company runs primarily from Pinewood and continues to take coordinator-and-second-unit work; Armstrong’s memoir The True Adventures of the World’s Greatest Stuntman remains the most-cited public account of mid-to-late twentieth-century British action coordination.