{"id":2245356,"date":"2026-01-22T11:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2245356"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:07:37","slug":"record-breaking-movie-stunts-meet-the-hollywood-stars-who-did-it-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/record-breaking-movie-stunts-meet-the-hollywood-stars-who-did-it-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking movie stunts: meet the Hollywood stars who did it themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Up next\u00a0is Jackie Chan (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/china\">China<\/a>), a man of many talents\u00a0who has been involved in the film industry for\u00a0over 60 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Starring in\u00a0films such as the\u00a0Rush Hour<i>\u00a0<\/i>series and\u00a0The Karate Kid<i>\u00a0<\/i>(2010), he\u00a0has developed a rich career spreading action and excitement across the globe. On 5 December 2012,\u00a0Chan was recognized\u00a0as the Guinness World Records title holder for\u00a0<strong>most stunts by a\u00a0living actor<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/arts-and-entertainment\">Read about more record-breaking celebrities in our Arts and Entertainment section.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this point, he had completed a total of 100 stunts, and now that number will surely\u00a0have risen. This record-breaking lifestyle does not come without a price\u00a0though! He has endured many injuries,\u00a0including\u00a0breaking his nose three times,\u00a0both of his cheekbones being broken, most of his fingers,\u00a0and\u00a0even his skull.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2026\/1\/images\/hollywood-stunts-jackie-chan.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie Chan with GWR certificates\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chan also broke the record for\u00a0<strong>most credits in one movie for the same person<\/strong> with the release of\u00a0Chinese Zodiac<i>\u00a0<\/i>(2012), where he achieved a total of 15 credits. Chan\u2019s many\u00a0credits were for things such as writer, catering coordinator, composer,\u00a0producer, and, of course, stuntman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally,\u00a02025 marked the 10th\u00a0anniversary of the passing of veteran actor\u00a0Sir\u00a0Christopher Lee, and he broke many world records in his incredible career. In 2007,\u00a0he was recognized\u00a0as the Guinness World Records title holder for\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2015\/6\/sir-christopher-lee-1922-2015-a-look-back-over-an-incredible-record-breaking-ac\">most films with a swordfight by an actor<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0after he\u00a0dueled\u00a0in 17 films with swords, lightsabers, foils, and billiard cues.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2026\/1\/images\/hollywood-stunts-christopher-lee.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Glenday sword fighting with Sir Christoper Lee\" width=\"684\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">GWR Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday sword fighting with Sir Christopher Lee<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0record-breaking feats do not end there, as on 29 September 2009, he\u00a0became the\u00a0<strong>oldest\u00a0videogame actor<\/strong>. He\u00a0provided the voice of Diz\/Ansem the Wise in Kingdom Hearts\u00a0358\/2 Days.\u00a0At that\u00a0point,\u00a0Lee was aged 87 years 125 days, and then he went on to break his own record as the narrator for\u00a0LEGO\u00ae The Hobbit\u00a0at the age of 91 years and 316 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another Guinness World Records title that Lee holds is\u00a0<strong>most deaths in a movie career<\/strong>.<b>\u00a0<\/b>With over 200 movie credits, Lee\u2019s characters died 61 times.<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s career was filled with talent, and his legacy lives on to this day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v17.0&#038;appId=1915080542048084&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" nonce=\"ranNHuWA\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.guinnessworldrecords.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up next\u00a0is Jackie Chan (China), a man of many talents\u00a0who has been involved in the film industry for\u00a0over 60 years.\u00a0 Starring in\u00a0films such as the\u00a0Rush Hour\u00a0series and\u00a0The Karate Kid\u00a0(2010), he\u00a0has developed a rich career spreading action and excitement across the globe. On 5 December 2012,\u00a0Chan was recognized\u00a0as the Guinness World Records title holder for\u00a0most stunts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2245357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[338479,335655,24024,434649,434650,33293],"class_list":["post-2245356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-jackie-chan","tag-kate-winslet","tag-record-breaking-stunts","tag-sir-christopher-lee","tag-tom-cruise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Record-breaking-movie-stunts-meet-the-Hollywood-stars-who-did-it.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245358,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245356\/revisions\/2245358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}