Nick Gillard


Nick Gillard is an English stunt man and coordinator. He is best known as the technical lightsaber choreographer and stunt coordinator of the Star Wars prequels.

Biography

Gillard was born in Brighton, England.
At the age of twelve, he ran away from military school to join the circus where he performed as bareback horse rider. Over the next few years Gillard worked with several circus's including Circus Althoff in Germany and Los Muchachos Circus in Spain. Gillard was invited to do stunts on The Thief of Baghdad. He enjoyed it, and later left the circus to perform stunt work in films, including the original Star Wars. Gillard was Mark Hamill's first choice as his stunt double for Return of the Jedi.
As a stunt man, Gillard held the world record for longest fire stunt, with a fire burn without air for over two minutes on Alien 3. He also performed a 200-foot power boat jump over two bridges in the film Amsterdamned, and was set on fire over 100 times.
Among Gillard's movie credits are Sleepy Hollow, ', Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He had a cameo appearance in ' and a minor role as Cin Drallig

Filmography

As stunt coordinator, arranger or performer

Film

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