Ian van temperley biography
Ian van Temperley is known for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (), A Monster Calls () and Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands ().!
Ian Van Temperley has over 30 years' experience worldwide in the Film & TV industry working as a Stunt Co-ordinator, 2nd Unit director and Horse Master.Did you always want to be a stuntman, Ian?
I did – like any kid I’d watch a Tarzan or cowboy film on a Saturday and go and practise outside. I was told at school that there was no such job as a stuntman, so I joined the army.
After that I went to the US for a while and one day I got thinking about a friend back in the UK who was a stunt co-ordinator. I gave him a call and got a job.
If you are in the UK, you need to join the Stunt Register and then you go through three phases.
Ian van Temperley is known as an Stunt Coordinator, Actor, Stunt Double, Stunts, Fight Choreographer, Digital Imaging Technician, and Action Director.
You start off as probationary, then after so many stunts you become intermediate and then after you’ve done that for a while and if you’re good enough you become a stunt co-ordinator.
So as a stunt co-ordinator you’re the guy the director turns to and says, ‘Can we make this happen?’.
Yes.
I’m doing that now on the set of a TV production of Beowulf in England. It’s full-on. Every day I’ll look at what action we have to prepare for, see who needs to be booked in, plan fights, do budgets