Philip Tan
Acting
Born 1960-07-22
Singapore
88 credits
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Phil Tan was born in Singapore where he spent his childhood and then at the age of five moved to the UK. Phil started off his athletic career as a gymnast where he became the British Youth Tumbling champion and a member of the British squad for many years. Years later after getting into martial arts, Phil also became the Men's British Tae Kwon do Champion.
Phil's first break in film, was as an actor and fight choreographer in a film called Le complot diabolique du docteur Fu Manchu
(1980) with Peter Sellers. Afer that came a year on Greystoke, la légende de Tarzan (1984), also as an actor and trainer forChristopher Lambert. Phil was then contacted by Steven Spielberg and Robert Watts to train the pricipal actor 'Jonathan Ke Quanin' for Indiana Jones et le temple maudit(1984).
He was then invited to become a member of The British Stunt Register in 1986. That was the start of Phil's stunt career. Now Philip Tan lives in LA and works as a 2nd Unit Director, stunt and fight co-ordinator on some of Hollywoods bigget movies.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Philip Tan
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Acting
35 credits
S.W.A.T.
Californication
Sliders
Raising Hope
Family Matters
seaQuest DSV
Workaholics
Martial Law
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Batman
Lethal Weapon 4
Olympus Has Fallen
Planet of the Apes
Big Momma's House
Tango & Cash
The Three Musketeers
Alias
Congo
Safe
Return to Oz
Two of a Kind
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Showdown in Little Tokyo
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Me & My Girl
Wake of Death
Awaken
Teleios
Bloodsport II
Surf Ninjas
Martial Law
China Cry
City of Industry
The Perfect Weapon
Underworld
Other credits
27 credits
Inception
The Hangover
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Bullet Train
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Batman Returns
Minority Report
Pearl Harbor
Demolition Man
Red Dawn
Crossbow
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Wild Wild West
Crank: High Voltage
Disturbia
Willow
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
The Commando
6-Headed Shark Attack
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
7 Seconds
Awaken
Martial Law
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