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Philip Tan Biography

Birth Name:
Philip Tan
Birth Place:
Singapore
Profession
actor/stc/producer/ph/ed/

Fast Facts

  • Moved to the United Kingdom from Singapore at the age of 5
  • Started off his career as a gymnast and became the British Young Tumbling champion representing the national team for several years
  • Won the British Tai Kwondo championship and the national dancing competition in 1985
  • Breakthrough in film came through a Peter Sellers ad in a newspaper as he auditioned and got selected for the movie The Fiendish Plot of Dr
  • Fu Manchu (1980) Contacted by Steven Spielberg and Robert Watts, he trained the lead actor for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
  • Became a member of The British Stunt Register in 1986
  • Has worked as the fight co-ordinator on some of Hollywood's biggest movies such as Bloodsport 2 (1996), Martial Law (1998), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)