- Birth nameDavid Carter
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Carter Ferguson is Scotland's foremost fight/action coordinator. At the time of writing, he has accrued 900 professional credits, not all of which are listed here. His HETV fight and stunt credits include 8 years as fight director on the Scottish crime drama Taggart, 3 years on Waterloo Road, 19 years on the BBC continuing drama River City, 3 years on Guilt, and a plethora of other high-end shows such as Mayflies, Screw, Payback, Two Doors Down, The Control Room & Shetland. His feature film work includes stunts on high-end features starring Idris Elba, Samuel L Jackson, James McAvoy, Kevin McKidd, Minnie Driver, and Steve Coogan. Carter is also an accomplished actor and director with over 70 awards. His first feature film, Fast Romance, won the BAFTA Scotland Cineworld Audience Award in 2011.
- IMDb mini biography by: Carter Ferguson
- In the 2011 How Not To Live Your Life - Christmas Special, Carter plays the "other" Santa in the big fight sequence.
- In 23 episodes of Taggart, Carter has been the "unseen assailant" who murders the first victim. He has appeared numerous times as other shadowy assailants in that series and more.
- Staging fights is not about moves. It's about creating drama.
- If you cut a fight from a film or TV show due to lack of budget you're doing the production no favors. Fights usually happen at high points in the arc of the story. If you cut the fight to save a few hundred quid then you're really just hurting the story.
- It's important to learn when to speak up, but also when not to speak at all.
- It's not about moves, it's about creating drama.
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