Risk and reward: life as a stunt double

‘I drove a snow-covered car down the toboggan track at St Moritz. It just wouldn’t happen now’: Rocky Taylor. Photograph: Kiran Master/The Observer

Rocky Taylor, 80, Surrey: ‘My worst accident came in 1985 while filming Death Wish 3’

I’ve been in the game since 1960. My first film was The Young Ones, starring Cliff Richard. I can’t have been more than 17, and was only paid a few bob. Already a black belt in judo, I went down and taught him some basics: mostly showing how to do some throws on the mats.