Philip Tan

  • Birthplace

    Singapore

  • Birthday
    January 1, 1960

    Deathday
    N/A

Philip Tan

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

Philip Tan awards and nominations
Year Category Subcategory Info Movie/Tv Series
2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards Winner Actor Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture (Danny Le Boyer, Andy Bradshaw, Richard Bucher, Allison Caetano, Bruce Cain, Tom Cohan, Eliza Coleman, George Cottle, Steve DeCastro, Jacob Dewitt, Wade Eastwood, Rick English, Roel Failma, Mark Fichera, Marie Fink, Steve Griffin, Bobby Holland Hanton, Adam Hart, Logan Holladay, Sy Hollands, Gary Hoptrough, Jason Hunjan, Stephen Izzi, Terry Jackson, Ruth Jenkins, Luke Kearney, Jess King, Nito Larioza, Maurice Lee, Terry Leonard, James Lew, Michael Li, Diana R. Lupo, Rick Miller, Lin Oeding, Monte Rex Perlin, Norb Phillips, Andy Pilgrim, Mark Rayner, Rex Reddick, Simon Rhee, Tracey Ruggiero, Brandon Sebek, Diz Sharpe, Gunter Simon, Paul Sklar, Marvin Campbell, John Street, Tom Struthers, Melissa R. Stubbs, Mens-Sana Tamakloe, Philip Tan, Marlow Warrington-Mattei, Chrissy Weathersby Ball, Jim Wilkey, Brent Woolsey, Harry Wowchuk, Richard Wu, Ryan Young) Inception
Year Category Subcategory Info Movie/Tv Series
2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominee Actor Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture (Terry Ahue, Hank Amos, Stella Angelova, Daniel Arrias, Brian Avery, Jeffrey G. Barnett, Ken Bates, Paul Borne, John Branagan, Ben Hernandez Bray, Jeff Brockton, Bob Brown, Kurt Bryant, Paul Bucossi, Peter Bucossi, Stacey Carino, Lauren Cashatt, John Cenatiempo, Alex Chansky, Ilram Choi, Arnold Chon, Brian Christensen, Brian Patrick Collins, J.J. Dashnaw, Dustin Dennard, Eyad Elbitar, Richard Epper, Tom Erickson, Donna Evans, Roy Farfel, Sierra Fisk, Brent Fletcher, Colin Follenweider, Aja Frary, Eric Frazier, Joey Freitas, Kai Garcia, Mark Ginther, Jessie Graff, Tom Harper, Regis Harrington, Gene Hartline, Melissa Hartman, Michael Hilow, Michael Hugghins, David Hugghins, Yoshio Iizuka, Mike Johnson, Mike Justus, Michael Kase, Steve Kelso, Josh Kemble, Hubie Kerns, Lauren Kim, Alex Krimm, Theo Kypri, Paul Lacovara, Christopher Leps, James Lew, Brock Little, Khristian Lupo, Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom, Lin Oeding, Marque Ohmes, Tarah Paige, Chase Penny, Randy Peters, Jodi Michelle Pynn, Suzanne Reed, Greg Reynolds, Jimmy N. Roberts, Troy Robinson, Shawn Robinson, Laurence Todd Rosenthal, Michael Russo, Stephen W. Schriver, Marc Scizak, Tina Sen Gordon, Brian Simpson, Mam Smith, Gregg Smrz, Russell Solberg, Philip Tan, C.C. Taylor, Vladimir Tevlovski, Don Thai Theerathada, Aaron Toney, Frank Torres, Michael Trisler, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Tyler Vogt, Garrett Warren, Jen Weissenberg, Thom Khoury Williams, Newton Wimer, Scott Workman) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2008 Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominee Actor Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture (George Marshall Ruge, Tsuyoshi Abe, Kevin Abercrombie, Joey Anaya, Tony Angelotti, Greg Anthony, Noby Arden, Sala Baker, Daniel W. Barringer, Brian Bennett, Richard L. Blackwell, Ben Hernandez Bray, Dan Brown, Joe Bucaro III, Richard Bucher, Keith Campbell, Jay Caputo, Darryl Chan, Alex Chansky, Eric Chen, Fernando Chien, Ilram Choi, Arnold Chon, Brian Patrick Collins, Geo Corvera, Brycen Counts, Shawn Crowder, Phil Culotta, Mark De Alessandro, John Dixon, J. Mark Donaldson, John Donohue, Brian Duffy, Jayson Dumenigo, Thomas DuPont, Andy Dylan, Greg Wayne Elam, Kofi Elam, Paul Eliopoulos, Bob Elmore, Masaaki Endo, Jonathan Eusebio, Roel Failma, Dane Farwell, Jeremy Fry, Darin Fujimori, Richie Gaona, Mickey Giacomazzi, Erica Grace, Dean Grimes, Charles Grisham, Al Goto, Sam Hargrave, Zac Henry, Steven Ho, Lisa Hoyle, Randall Huber, Zach Hudson, Alex Huynh, Yoshio Iizuka, Keii Johnston, John Koyama, Anthony Kramme, Theo Kypri, Reuben Langdon, Danny Le Boyer, Don Lee, Michelle Lee, Will Leong, Christopher Leps, James Lew, Michael Li, Sam Looc, Kurt D. Lott, Ray Lykins, Rob Mars, Kirk Maxwell, Mark McDaniels, Lee McDermott, Angela Meryl, Norman Mora, Tom Morga, Marty Murray, Tadahiro Nakamura, Mark Norby, Phi-Long Nguyen, Hugh Aodh O'Brien, Casey O'Neill, Lin Oeding, Brad Orrison, Jen Sung, Jim Palmer, Norb Phillips, Denney Pierce, J.P. Romano, Thomas Rosales Jr., Bill M. Ryusaki, Gregg Sargeant, Liane Schmidt, Marc Schaffer, Craig Frosty Silva, Lincoln Simonds, Buddy Sosthand, Gary Ray Stearns, Jim Stephan, Don Thai Theerathada, Lewis Tan, Philip Tan, Steve Tartalia, Bryan Thompson, Trampas Thompson, Aaron Toney, Russell Towery, Víctor Quintero, Steve Upton, Samuel Le, Jon Valera, Mark Vanselow, David Wald, Mike Watson, Ryan Watson, Jack West, Webster Whinery, Webster P. Whinery Jr., Brian J. Williams, Jeff Wolfe, Adrienne Wong, Kerry Wong, Phillip Wong, Emily Wu, Kofi Yiadom, Marcus Young) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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