- 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 The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) with Peter Sellers. Afer that came a year on Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), also as an actor and trainer for Christopher Lambert. Phil was then contacted by Steven Spielberg and Robert Watts to train the pricipal actor 'Jonathan Ke Quanin' for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (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-coordinator on some of Hollywoods biggest movies.
- IMDb mini biography by: Philip Tan
- Children
- In 1980, he was in his first movie as an actor and stunt coordinator. In 1986, he became a member of the British Stunt Register. Now he is a world famous stuntman, actor, and choreographer and can be seen in movies such as Bloodsport 2 (1996), Martial Law (1998), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).
- Father of Lewis Tan.
- Is an expert in such martial arts as Tae Kwon Do, including Thai Boxing and classic boxing.
- He went to the University of New York and majored in Economics.
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