Bob Anderson who has died, aged 89, was one of the foremost practitioners of the anonymous art of choreographing sword fights for movies. The job entails not just creating thrust, parry, riposte up and down staircases and over balconies and down cliff-faces but also training actors to fight as if they really know what they are doing. From Errol Flynn to Viggo Mortensen, Anderson trained them all.
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