By Rick Sylvester, Moonshine Ink

The year 2017 marked the 40th anniversary of James Bond’s “The Spy Who Loved Me.” One local historian and pundit opined the stunt I performed doubling for Roger Moore playing James Bond as part of the opening pre-credit sequence represented a “game changer.”

Though the movie was panned, it was a commercial success. The San Francisco Chronicle called it the “greatest Bond stunt in history.” Newsweek’s film critic took it further and said it was the greatest stunt in the history of cinema.

I found these statements interesting, as despite playing Bond twice, I never regarded myself as a stuntman per se, but merely a climber, skier, former distance runner, former wrestler, and novice parachutist who just happened to have come up with a rather odd idea.

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