Stuntman Rémy Julienne, adjuster of Belmondo's prowess in
Le Guignolo
and
L'As des As
- among a thousand others was put into intensive care at Montargis hospital, not far from his dear village of Cepoy where he has always lived, after have contracted the coronavirus.
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Now 90 years old, the former motorcycle champion who became a stunt adjuster because he had a taste for risk and performance deep down, is perhaps leading his hardest fight.
It was his friend the cardiologist Jean-Pierre Door, LR deputy for Loiret where the stunt master resides who announced this worrying news on his Facebook account on January 11: "At the time when Rémi Julienne is fighting against Covid 19, I I remember that day when the inauguration of the Place de Cepoy, which bears his name, brought together film personalities.
I am obviously thinking of Bébel and his friend Charles Gérard who has unfortunately left us since ”.
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France 3 Régions, Center-Val-de-Loire which follows with anguish the state of health of this child of the country that is Rémy Julienne adds that "Jean-Pierre Door regularly visits Rémy Julienne".
Belmondo the Magnificent and James Bond
A man of action cinema, accomplice of Georges Lautner and of course of the intrepid Jean-Paul Belmondo, trimmer of six James Bond automobile stunts, Rémy Julienne has devoted his life to the conception of highly spectacular scenes.
Before the development of digital special effects, this specialty was to make the heyday of the seventh for three decades from 1960 to 1990.
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Rémy Julienne began his career as a conductor of cinematographic aerobatics in the film
Fantômas
by André Hunebelle in 1964. In his fifty-year career, he has worked with the greatest French directors and actors.
Gérard Oury (
Le Cerveau
, 1969;
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob
, 1973), Philippe de Broca (
Le Roi de cœur
, 1966;
La Poudre d'écampette
, 1971), François Truffaut (
The American Night
, 1972), Claude Lelouch (
L'Aventure, c'est l'Aventure,
1972; A
whole life
, 1974), Yves Boisset (
Heatwave
, 1983), Leos Carax (
Mauvais sang
, 1986) and above all Georges Lautner with whom he shot around fifteen films (
Fleur d'oseille
, 1967;
Le Pacha
, 1968;
A few too quiet gentlemen
, 1972;
On aura tout vu
, 1976;
Mort d'un pourri
, 1977;
Flic ou voyou
, 1979;
Le Guignolo
, 1980;
Le Professionnel
, 1981;
Happy Easter
, 1984).
His international career took off when Rémy Julienne was asked by the British Peter Collinson in 1969 to shoot
L'Or se barre
(
The Italian Job
).
This film will be a real springboard.
The Mini Cooper scene remained memorable.
Many international collaborations followed (Dino Risi, Alberto Lattuada, Terence Young, Sydney Pollack, Sergio Leone, Ron Howard) including six James Bond (
Just for your eyes
- which won him an award in 1981 -
Octopussy
,
Dangerously yours
,
Kill is not playing, License to Kill
and
GoldenEye
).
More than two years ago Rémy Julienne came to
Le Figaro
to tell us about his stunts with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Roger Moore ...
