‘Yes, there are a number of quite
remarkable and unforgettable incidents but probably not the kind
you'd expect. It's the little things mostly, those ridiculously
funny moments, like Terry Walsh coming up to you before a fire gag
saying, "Its going to be a big one - so put these in your
pockets in case it goes wrong"! Naturally feeling
apprehensive, you glance down to see he has given you two large
potatoes. At a moment like that, it’s great to have a reason to
laugh.
My fondest memory is the day I did something
particularly dreadful to a fellow stuntman. In fact to my best pal
Billy Horrigan, so between you and me I'm not really that sorry.
Anyone who has met Billy will no doubt be aware of his unique and
eccentric sense of humour and his love of practical jokes. It was
time, I felt, to give Billy a taste of his own medicine so I
called him to do a car crash on 'Dempsey and Makepeace'. After
rehearsals, and around the corner out of sight, we substituted the
car Billy was to crash into and he suddenly found himself crashing
into his own car, - he went absolutely ballistic - and it took
ages before he calmed down enough to realise that the car was not
really his and was in fact a 'clone' look-alike and that he wasn't
performing on 'Dempsey and Makepeace', but that we had done him on
'Game For A Laugh'. To this day I worry that he may someday seek
his revenge.
It is without a doubt an extraordinary job
and I wouldn't change it for the world. I thank God every day for
allowing me to do something that I truly enjoy and actually get
paid for doing it.’
Roy
Alon was talking to Jon Auty.
You can read another interview with Roy, where he talks about his
work on the James Bond films, by clicking THIS
LINK
This sequence below best demonstrates Roy's
versatility. He plays the part of an I.R.A heavy in the 1981 film
'The Long Good Friday'. After gunmen burst into the room Roy, and
fellow stuntman Frank Henson, crash through the window to the
floor below. The pink car tries to avoid the two men and crashes
into the blue car. Roy is driving car 674.
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| Roy performs a
fall through a window and then crashes car 674 into
another vehicle, all for the film 'The Long Good Friday' |
