B.J. Davis

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

B.J. Davis
Birth name:	Bobby Joe Davis
Date of birth:	14 August 1952
Place of birth:	Texarkana, Arkansas, USA
Roles:	Actor; Stunt actor; Assistant stunt coordinator; Stunt double
Character(s):	Multiple characters

B.J. Davis (born 14 August 1952; age 73) is a stuntman, stunt actor, stunt coordinator, director, producer, and writer from Texarkana, Arkansas. Davis was a regular stunt performer on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager and an assistant stunt coordinator on several episodes of Deep Space Nine and one of the stunt doubles for Colm Meaney. He also performed stunts in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Yeoman Burke.

For the Voyager episode "Warlord", Davis filmed his scenes on Wednesday 4 September 1996 and Monday 9 September 1996 on Paramount Stage 16.

After serving two years in the US Marine Corps, he entered the stunt and film business in the late '60s; he currently has a resume of over four hundred films and television series as a stuntman, director, and stunt coordinator. . Davis is also the founder of the group "Stunts Spectacluar", whose mission is to show the world the real stunt work.

Davis was married to stuntwoman Dorothy Ching-Davis until 1994. Since 1995 he has been married to Julia Davis. As a writer he wrote his autobiography Confessions of a Hollywood Stuntman in 2005, which later became a film in 2014. [1]

Star Trek appearances

Tau Cygna V colonist
TNG: "The Ensigns of Command"
(uncredited)

Rutian police officer
TNG: "The High Ground"
(uncredited)

Enterprise-D officer
TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise"
(uncredited)

Klingon assassin
TNG: "Sins of The Father"
(uncredited)

Alliance member
TNG: "Legacy"
(uncredited)

Klingon guard
TNG: "Reunion"
(uncredited)

Security officer
TNG: "Night Terrors"
(uncredited)

Security officer
TNG: "The Nth Degree"
(uncredited)

Medieval guard
TNG: "Qpid"
(uncredited)

Klingon guard
TNG: "The Mind's Eye"
(uncredited)

Yeoman Burke
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Stunt double for
Andrew J. Robinson
DS9: "The Way of the Warrior"
(uncredited)

Falcon's henchman
DS9: "Our Man Bashir"
(uncredited)

Ilari guard
VOY: "Warlord"
(uncredited)

Klingon brawler #4
DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations"
(uncredited)

Selected filmography

Stunt performer and stunt actor

• Films:
  • The Hand (1981, with Bruce McGill, Tracey Walter, and Donna Garrett)
  • Invasion U.S.A. (1985, with Nick Ramus and Richard Lynch)
  • Beverly Hills Madam (1986, with Terry Farrell, Nicholas Coster, and Seymour Cassel)
  • Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988, with Matt McCoy, René Auberjonois, David Graf, Kathryn Graf, Jerry O'Connell, and Gary Epper)
  • Trancers II (1991, with Jeffrey Combs, Richard Lynch, Chris Doyle, and Chuck Borden)
  • Night Eyes II (1992, with Tim Russ, Richard Chaves, and Jimmy Ortega)
  • Universal Soldier (1992, with Leon Rippy, Lilyan Chauvin, Mirron E. Willis, and Vince Deadrick, Jr.)
  • Army of Darkness (1992, with Patricia Tallman, Dennis Madalone, Rad Milo, Ian Abercrombie, Chris Doyle, Ken Lesco, and Tom Morga)
  • Love, Cheat & Steal (1993, with Mädchen Amick and John Pyper-Ferguson)
  • Playing God (1997, with Scott Leva, Spice Williams, and Tracey Walter)
  • Power Play (2002)
• TV Series:
  • General Hospital (1983)
  • FBI: The Untold Stories (1992-1993, with Chuck Borden)
  • Power Play (1998-2000)

Director and 2nd unit director

• Films:
  • American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987, with Ed Anders and Alan Marcus)
  • How to become a Hollywood Stuntman (1991)
  • Love, Cheat & Steal (1993)
  • Playing God (1997)
  • Power Play (2002)
  • Forget about it (2006)
• TV Series:
  • Renegade (1992-1997, with Branscombe Richmond)

External links

• BJDavisFilms.com – official site
• Videos of B.J. Davis' two world records at YouTube
• B.J. Davis at the Internet Movie Database