Like most kids, I loved dressing up and playing cops and robbers or cowboys and indians with my friends, and mimicking fights or shootouts that I may have seen on television or at my local cinema. But it was growing up in the 80s with series like The Professionals, The A-Team, The Fall Guy , and movies like James Bond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Westerns, War Films and early Jackie Chan and of course Hooper, that gave my aspirations focus for the direction I needed to take, which was ultimately to become a professional Stuntman. I began working as early as 1984 as a Supporting\Background Artist, and also began my training as a Stunt Performer. At this stage in my career, I worked on most films and TV series shot in and around London as a Walk-On and also as a Stand- In, gaining valuable experience in performing in front of camera. At this time, I worked alongside many amazing Stunt Performers and Stunt Coordinators, who would later become employers and also close friends. Finally finishing my training in 1994 aged 24, I was accepted onto the British Equity Stunt Register. In 2004 I was nominated for the Best Fire Stunt in a feature film 28 Days Later, by The Taurus World Stunt Awards, which are held in LA. The following year I was privileged to be inducted into the Hollywood Stuntmans Hall of Fame. My first feature film as Stunt Performer was on Mel Gibsons Braveheart. Since then I have been fortunate enough to have worked on many feature films and TV shows as a stunt Performer\Double, working my way up to becoming Assistant Stunt Co-ordinator on various films and TV shows, most memorably to date my first major film as a Stunt Co-ordinator was on Beowulf & Grendel in 2005, shot entirely on location in Iceland. Since then I have Co-ordinated on many other productions and have also begun to direct 2nd Unit., but happily I still continue performing stunts. I put my film influences and great and ever growing passion for the movies down to a very varied cross section of industry professionals, which include Directors, Special Make-up Artists and Stuntmen: John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, Dario Argento, Sergio Leone, George C Romero, Dick Smith, Tom Savini, Jackie Chan, John Woo, Luc Besson, Tsio Hark, Ringo Lam, Yuen Woo Ping, James Cameron, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg.