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Filmmaker, Film Professional, Film Lover

Background

I act in independent film and theatre. I worked closely with Ken Colley (The Empire Strikes Back, Firefox, I Hired a Contract Killer) on his short films and his feature Greetings. British action thriller Ten Dead Men, in which I play a lead role, is out on dvd in the USA and France in January 2009. This year I have upcoming roles in three British indie features, The Landlord, Tribal and Nui Lung - A New Game of Death.

I produce independent film and fringe theatre when I can get the money together, usually working from my own scripts. I've been to the San Francisco Fringe Festival 5 times, winning a Best of Fringe award in 2006. My stage adaptation of Conrad's Heart of Darkness was described by the treasurer of the Conrad Society as "The yardstick by which we judge all adaptations of Conrad". My first feature Bloodmyth was made on a budget of less than £3000. During the course of shooting and postproduction I've done most of the jobs involved in making a movie. I'm now learning all about preparing deliverables, as I have been offered a contract for dvd distribution in the US and worldwide sales by Maxim Media International.

Work Details

Director of Rogues' Yarn, a film and theatre production company.

Actor, writer and director.

Besides film, I enjoy

Books, hiking, running, swimming, travel, historical European martial arts.

Useless fact about myself

Cheadle Angling Club junior champion 1969

My website

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1437182