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I am so excited look at themmmmmm

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Bob Simmons and Bond:

Doubling for Connery, Simmons agreed to have a real tarantula spider crawl across his body and shoulder: ‘I tried to close my mind to what was going on. I lay there, petrified…’. But what made it worse was that the director, Terence Young, insisted that one more shot was taken, so Simmons had to do it all over again. Needless to say, Simmons was not very pleased, especially as he realised he had not negotiated any extra fee for the dangerous work.

Simmons regarded the duel between James Bond and ‘Red’ Grant (Robert Shaw) on the Orient Express in From Russia With Love as ‘one of the most realistic examples of hand-to-hand combat ever filmed’. Working as Connery’s double on the now famous From Russia fight sequence, with Jack Cooper doubling for Robert Shaw, Simmons said ‘it was a peach of a fight’, helped by editor Peter Hunt’s suggestion that a third free camera be used.

Source for above quote is this Bond fan site.

You may know Bob Simmons better from the iconic gun barrel scene.

He also played the widow in this fight scene. Skip to 1:40 if you want to get to the fighting.

Here's a photo of Simmons and Sean Connery chilling on set while filming that sequence.

bts photo source

also fun: this behind the scenes look at filming a scene in Diamonds Are Forever with Simmons working as stunt coordinator!

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Best Actor to play James Bond

Barry Nelson

Bob Simmons

Sean Connery

George Lazenby

Roger Moore

David Niven

Peter Sellers

Woody Allen

Ursula Andress

Timothy Dalton

Pierce Brosnan

Daniel Craig

Voting ended onJul 13, 2025

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Stunt performer Bob Simmons as Bond in the first-ever gunbarrel intro. 1962.

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Bob Simmons choreographed the fight scenes in Dr. No.  His hard hitting, high-impact stye of fighting sets the standard for subsequent Bond movies.

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Frankie J Teachers (part one)

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Shepley Bulfinch Welcomes Robert Simmons, AIA, LEED AP as Principal

Shepley Bulfinch Welcomes Robert Simmons, AIA, LEED AP as Principal

Extensive focus on the design of campus life projects bolsters firm’s higher education practice BOSTON – June 14, 2017 – Shepley Bulfinch, a national architecture firm known for design excellence and innovation with offices in Boston, Houston and Phoenix, announced today that Robert (Bob) Simmons, AIA, LEED AP has joined the firm as a Principal. A dynamic leader in campus life design throughout…

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Colonel Jacques Bouvar - Thunderball (1965)

Bouvar is throttled with a fire poker during a vicious fight with James Bond before having his corpse garnished with flowers.