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- Birth nameRoyston Edwin Scammell
- Roy Scammell was born on July 28, 1932 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Willow (1988), Rollerball (1975) and Alien (1979). He was married to Monique Garlopeau. He died on May 15, 2021 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
- SpouseMonique Garlopeau(1955 - 1973) (divorced, 1 child)
- Was Malcolm McDowell's Stunt Double on A Clockwork Orange.
- Was the stunt double for Susan Hampshire on Monre Carlo or Bust.
- Also an accomplished dancer and ice skater. Andrew Lloyd Webber at one time commissioned him to arrange the skate racing scenes in Starlight Express.
- In Israel, on the 1966 film Cast A Giant Shadow, he doubled for Kirk Douglas and ended up singing 'Strangers in the Night' with Frank Sinatra at a local nightclub.
- As a member of the stunt team HAVOC on Doctor Who, he performed the then highest ever fall performed by a British stuntman, plunging from a 50ft high gasometer.
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