Steve Truglia Explained

Steve Truglia
Birth Date:	October 3, 1962
Birth Place:	London, England
Occupation:	Stunt coordinator, stunt performer, television presenter, magician

Steve Truglia (3 October 1962) (age 61) is a stunt coordinator, stunt performer and action unit director in the UK.^{[1] [2]} He became a TED speaker in 2009.^[3]

Career

Truglia served as a reservist in the UK Special Forces for twenty years.^[1]

Truglia became a professional stuntman in 1996.^{[1] [4]} His motion picture stunt credits included Saving Private Ryan and two James Bond films.^[5]

Truglia set multiple records, including:

• The longest Full Body Burn in the UK, ablaze for 2 minutes 5 seconds (unofficial record).^[1]
• British record (2002) for no limits freediving (breath hold diving) – .^{[1] [6]}
• Awarded Guinness World Record in 2004 for fastest abseil over (8.9 seconds).^[1]

Truglia made a fundraising attempt for a world-record high altitude parachute jump from the edge of space, to surpass what was then Joe Kittinger's 1960 record. Truglia's plan was to jump from in a spacesuit.^{[5] [7]} He did not attempt the stunt prior to his death.

See also

• Parachuting
• Yevgeni Andreyev
• Felix Baumgartner
• Charles "Nish" Bruce
• Alan Eustace
• Michel Fournier
• Joseph Kittinger
• Nick Piantanida
• Cheryl Stearns

External links

• Official stunt website, archived 7 March 2016
• Card Shark Show website, archived 20 November 2016
• Stars of Vegas website
• Space Jump website, archived 19 September 2015
• IMDB Profile, archived 17 February 2017

Media

• Article in The Times Jan 2010
• A video of a talk in July 2009 at the TED Global Conference in Oxford, UK about technological improvements in stunts and his forthcoming parachute jump from the edge of space, in his own words, "...the greatest stunt on earth."
• breaks World's largest Loop the Loop Car Stunt
• High Fall Nominated for TV Award Article
• Freediving Article
• Stunts in TV Reconstruction of SAS Siege for Discovery Newspaper Article
• Interviewed for Times Newspaper Stunt Article
• Feature Article on Autotrader Website
• Feature Article on James Bond Fan Website
• EyeForFilm.co.uk interview September 2007
• Card Shark Show in The Independent

Notes and References

1. Web site: Steve Truglia . . 13 November 2017.
2. News: Steve Truglia obituary . 22 November 2016 . . 2022-09-01.
3. Web site: Steve Truglia: A leap from the edge of space . 2009 . TED Conferences . 13 November 2017. News: Wanstead James Bond stuntman Steve Truglia dies during 100m abseil race in China . Blackburn . Ralph . 22 November 2016 . . 13 December 2020.
4. News: My nine to five: Steve Truglia . Judd . Deany . . 11 December 2009 . 15 November 2017.
5. Super Jump . Klesius . Michael . . 15 June 2008 . 15 November 2017.
6. Web site: Setting the 76m British Record . Truglia . Steve . 5 June 2002 . deeperblue.net . 1469-865X . 13 November 2017.
7. News: London man in record space-edge parachute jump bid . 27 January 2010 . . 15 November 2017.