It says here he was the Arranger. He would have been around 60. Did he actually do it? No idea.
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Yes, he was stunt coordinator for the Bond movies, but he did many of the stunts himself, even at 60, so it’s very possible that he did that one, too.
Anyhow, RIP.
My colleagues and I are completely shocked and saddened by the sudden death of our friend and CEO, Peter. He sadly died in a drowning accident on Saturday, aged 56. We are totally shocked (we are a close team, as there are only 11 of us in the company). He was also well-known in the business community.
Our thoughts are with his wife and 3 children, and all his family/friends and my colleagues.
RIP mate
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Captain Sir Tom Moore…
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So sad to hear. As an NHS worker I salute Captain Sir Tom and all that he has done.
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Hmm. No words…
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Very sad news. He achieved so much in his life, no more so in the final year of his life.
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Holbrook delivered one of the performances that I must say truly moved me with his supporting role in Sean Penn’s Into the Wild. Just a brilliant, heartbreaking performance that I’ll always remember.
RIP Mr. Holbrook.
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A true hero of our times. Imagine, to have lived a life and see all the crap that happened in the past one hundred years first hand, disappear into more or less obscurity for almost a lifetime, but then return with a Bang! Glad that he could live to see all this late recognition. One of the stories about this pandemic that’ll be remembered for a very long time.
With my deepest respect, Fare the well, Captain Sir.
R.I.P.
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Sad news, and a good innings (95).
He was amazing in Capricorn One (1976) with that fantastic speech at the start (looks like a single take).
and great fun in The Fog (1980)
And in The Firm.
RIP.
In the early 2000s I was the producer and director of a short educational film focusing on the Civil War in Georgia (USA) to be played in the theater of a museum in a Georgia state park. We discussed with the client many people to serve as narrator for the film and eventually my suggestion of Hal Holbrook was approved.
I had the unbelievable honor to direct Mr. Holbrook over a telephone call while he was in a recording studio in Los Angeles. A more gracious and kind man I’ve never met. He was patient as I would ask for another reading and even more so when I would correct his pronunciation on a specific city’s name (in the South we are somewhat infamous for naming cities with pronunciations that seem to go against common grammar rules).
My biggest pleasure in it all was that Mr. Holbrook would regularly be inspired to step off the script and break into storytelling from his past…
“Chattanooga…Dixie and I once looked at buying a house in Chattanooga overlooking a big winding river. We almost bought it, too. Oh, the view!”
“General Sherman made his way eventually into Columbus…Y’know, I once played Mark Twain at the most quaint little theater in downtown Columbus. Have you ever been there?”
It was a career highlight for me that I will never forget. “The Battle for Georgia” went on to win several awards, but none were as satisfying as an afternoon spent on the phone with an acting legend who treated me with the utmost professional courtesy and respect.
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In New Orleans, we hilariously mispronounce pretty much everything. Burgundy St is not pronounced BER-gin-dy like you would expect, but rather ber-GUN-dy. Why you may ask? 
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…which makes perfect sense when you take the French heritage into account. 
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Christopher Plummer…
R.I.P.
Interesting for Bond fans may be his role as Eddie Chapman in Terence Young’s TRIPLE CROSS from 1966. The film was done when much of Chapman’s file was still confidential under the Official Secrets Act, so it could only loosely tell the story of ‘Agent Zigzag’.
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Another legend gone.
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That is tragic. Such a brilliant actor.
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A man who could have been Bond.
Great Canadian.
RIP.
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A veteran of many great films
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His Spooner against Robards’ (miscast) Hirst in Pinter’s “No Man’s Land” was superb.
I shall watch STAR TREK VI as tribute.
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