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 and other entertainment-industry unions. He began his film-industry career as a stuntman, stunt coordinator and second unit director. He was born in Texarkana, Arkansas, and grew up in Louisiana, where he excelled in sports, rodeo and motocross racing. His parents had hopes that he would become an attorney and carry on the family legacy of entering Louisiana politics. While winning the title of "Best All-Round Cowboy" in the early 1970s, BJ earned degrees in Communications and Theology. he was first attracted to Hollywood in the late 1950s as a small child, winning an audition for the popular western series "Bat Masterson" (1958)", starring Gene Barry (his rough-and-tumble background made it easier for him to get into stuntwork, and he eventually went on to double such Academy Award winners as Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Caine and the late, great Art Carney). 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. "Scotty", a well known security guard on the Universal Pictures lot who routinely let Steven Spielberg onto the property, allowed Davis to come through his gate, giving him a leg up on his dreams of fame and fortune in the film industry. Davis befriended Jane Chessus, the former secretary of film idol Errol Flynn , who helped him to secure membership in the Screen Actors Guild. He was nominated to become a member of the Stuntman Hall of Fame. He worked with such directors as John McTiernan , Oliver Stone and Tamara Davis on their first films. As a means of making himself more known, BJ decided to attempt to break two world stunt records and set his own, which is exactly what he did: 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. 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 (1991) ", 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. He directed the late 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 and Dolph Lundgren. He has also worked in close association with Chuck Norris. BJ has served as a line producer, unit production manager and first assistant director, and is well versed in production-related matters. He has worked domestically and internationally during his tenure as a Vice President of Production and Acquisitions for several production companies and is well-versed in all aspects of the filmmaking process, from concept, pre-production and production to post-production, distribution and delivery. He has partnered with noted producer John D. Schofield, whose credits include such Academy Award-winning box-office hits as "Jerry Maguire (1996)", "As Good as It Gets (1997)", "Enemy at the Gates (2001)" and "Ali (2001)". The duo created Beverly Hills Film Studios and produced Davis' first comedy as a producer/director, "Forget About It (2005)", starring Burt Reynolds , Raquel Welch, Charles Durning, Robert Loggia and Richard Grieco . In 2005 Davis had his first Sundance Festival submission, "Dirty Love (2005)", starring Jenny McCarthy and Carmen Electra, which he produced. Davis has served as a youth minister and is a founder and president of a chapter of the nationally known charitable and public service organization The Jaycees. In addition, he fulfilled a 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" (2000)", hosted by Burt Reynolds , which pays tribute to America's real heroes. He is completing an autobiography that is scheduled to be published later this year, 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".
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