George Willig

George Willig ( born June 11, 1949 in Queens, New York) is an American building, rock climbers, stuntman, and author, who under the name Human Fly ( Fly Man ) and The Spider-Man ( Spider Man ) is well known.

On May 26, 1977, he climbed the facade of the 110 -story South Tower of the World Trade Center and obtained with this action nationwide notoriety. Filming the stunts were shown in numerous U.S. entertainment shows and sports programs.

He then received a number of orders as a stuntman, inter alia, in the series The Six Million Dollar Man. In 1979 he published a book called Going It Alone.

In the 1980s and 1990s, George Willig largely disappeared from the public and worked as Gebäuderestaurierer in California.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, in which both towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed, he was briefly back in the headlines and gave an interview in which he expressed his regret, the World Trade Center climbed and this thereby into view of terrorists moved to have. Later he revised this statement he had made ​​according to your specifications in the first grief and anger, and stressed that he was happy to have climbed the World Trade Center.