BJ Davis is a producer and director who has worked with Academy Award-winning feature film directors
Clint Eastwood and
Oliver Stone.
He has also worked in close collaboration with four-time Emmy Award winner
Arthur Allan Seidelman. BJ has been an executive producer,
producer, director and screenwriter, continually coming in on or under budget with all of his film and television productions. Bondable
and bankable, he brings over 25 years of experience as a member of the Directors Guild of America, Producers Guild of America, Screen
Actors Guild of America and other
entertainment-industry unions.
BJ began his film-industry career as a stuntman, stunt coordinator
and second unit director. Growing up, he excelled in sports, rodeo and motocross racing, winning the title of "Best All-Round
Cowboy". He was first attracted to Hollywood as a small child, winning an audition for the popular western series
"Bat Masterson",
starring
Gene Barry. Davis ran away from home at the age of 16 and enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam war, and served
two years before coming to Hollywood to fulfill his dream of working in the movies. BJ also earned degrees in Arts, Communications
and Theology. He studied at the
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. BJ eventually became a stuntman and went on to
double such Academy Award winners as
Tom Hanks,
Jack Nicholson,
Tommy Lee Jones,
Michael Caine and
Art Carney. As a means
of making himself more known, BJ decided to break two world stunt records and set his own: a high fall from a helicopter
into the ocean from 180 feet and an aerial neck suspension beneath a helicopter at 70 mph, at 1,000 feet for a period of 20 minutes
of flight. These two world records still stand, and as a testament to their danger, another stuntman was unfortunately killed trying
to beat them. For his spectacular stunts and unbeatable world records, BJ was accepted into the
Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall
of Fame (other members include movie superstar
Kirk Douglas and an American icon
John Wayne).
BJ Davis has worked as a stuntman
in over 180 films and television shows and as a second unit director/stunt coordinator in over 250 films and television series. He
organized a fraternal group of stunt players, Stunts Spectacular, that eventually became a stunt equipment and supply organization.
BJ Davis and Stunts Spectacular created the very first reality-based and commercially successful video
How to Become a Hollywood Stuntman,
hosted by
Charlie Sheen, which BJ wrote, produced and directed. Davis took an active position in the affairs of the Screen Actors
Guild when he served as secretary to
Charlton Heston and
Robert Conrad. He rallied the stunt world and successfully demanded the Screen
Actors Guild provide contractual representation for stunt coordinators. He has directed film, television, rock videos and commercials
and worked with such directors as
John McTiernan and
Oliver Stone. BJ directed
Brandon Lee in his first feature
film, which catapulted the son of martial arts great
Bruce Lee into the spotlight. A martial artist himself, BJ has appeared in action
films with such stars as
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Dolph Lundgren and
Chuck Norris. BJ worked as a stunt coordinator and made
numerous appearances in Star Trek films, including
Star Trek: The Next Generation,
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and
Star Trek VI:
The Undiscovered Country.
BJ has partnered with noted producer
John D. Schofield, whose credits include such Academy Award-winning
box-office hits as
Jerry Maguire,
As Good as It Gets,
Enemy at the Gates and
Ali. The duo created Beverly Hills Film Studios and produced
Davis' first comedy,
"Forget About It" , starring
Burt Reynolds,
Raquel Welch,
Charles Durning,
Robert Loggia and
Richard Grieco.
In 2005 Davis produced feature film
Dirty Love, starring
Jenny McCarthy and
Carmen Electra, which was screened at the Sundance
Film Festival. Davis fulfilled his longtime dream of saluting America's heroes, Medal of Honor recipients by creating, in association
with the Medal of Honor Society, the television series
"Medal of Honor", hosted by
Burt Reynolds. BJ is currently developing
several feature films, documentaries and TV series, as well as completing an autobiography entitled "Confessions Of A Hollywood
Stuntman". Davis' motto still echoes in all media markets of the entertainment world: "
We do the difficult immediately, the impossible
by appointment".