Jim Dowdall

Stuntman and actor who appeared in several small roles in Doctor Who

Jim Dowdall has over 35 years of experience as a Stunt Co-ordinator/Performer. This has not only included the normal bread and butter work of fights, falls, fire, automotive and aerial and wire flying, but has stretched from Medieval Jousting in the USA, corporate business launches using stunt personnel etc; to driving a film crew on a 6 week Camel Trophy Trans Brazil/Guyana jungle Expedition.

His first job was in Circus working with Big Cats and learning Trapeze, before working for Bapty and Co for three years as an Armourer on films (‘The Dirty Dozen’ ‘Where Eagles Dare’ etc) and TV. He was a member of the Parachute Regiment (champion recruit) and later worked as an assistant director, before taking up Stunt work.

Over the last thirty years, in addition to normal stunt work, he has been specialising in automotive work, particularly commercials. he has driven cars for EVERY European and Japanese car manufacturer in over 340 car commercials. he is a member of The Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association at The Imperial War Museum in London and lectures regularly on WW2 German and American Automatic Weapons

he is also renowned as a lecturer on stunts and stunt work and lectures regularly at the National Film and Television School and schools and Universities here and abroad. 

Work includes Tezz, EastEnders, Time to Dance, Call the Midwife, Milton Jones's House of Rooms, One Day , Blitz, The Little House, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds, Rock & Chips, Wild Target, The Bill, The Descent: Part 2, The Street, Blackwater, The Royal, Tenner, Top Gear, Dead Set, RocknRolla, City of Vice, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Death Defying Acts, The Deaths of Ian Stone, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Dalziel and Pascoe, Straightheads, Hotel Babylon, Flood, Shameless, The Good Nigh, Green Wing, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Casualty @ Holby City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Sahara, The Descent, Frances Tuesday, Wimbledon, Enduring Love, Finding Neverland, The Bourne Supremacy, Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, Sex Lives of the Potato Men, If Only, Faking It, Suspicion, My Hero, Murder in Mind, I'll Be There, Cambridge Spies, Bright Young Things, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, I Capture the Castle, Red Cap, The Gathering, Two Thousand Acres of Sky, Die Another Day, The Heart of Me, The Pianist, Sweet Sixteen, The Gathering Storm, Clocking Off, Where Were We..., The 51st State, Messiah, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Enemy at the Gates, Five Seconds to Spare, Pandaemonium, Quills, Gangster No. 1, The Blind Date, Mauvaise passe, The World Is Not Enough, Entrapment, The War Zone, The Dance of Shiva, Supply & Demand, Little Voice, The Theory of Flight, Saving Private Ryan, Little White Lie, The Vicar of Dibley, Cash in Hand, Casualty, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Borrowers, FairyTale: A True Story, Our Boy, Supply & Demand, The Woman in White, Daylight, The English Patien, Mary Reilly, Restoration, GoldenEye, Hackers, Richard III, Prime Suspect: Inner Circles, The Last Englishman, Seaforth, Between the Lines, Bloody Weekend, Shopping, Pie in the Sky, In the Name of the Father, Screen One, Splitting Heirs, Boon, Minder, Smack and Thistle, Born to Ride, Sleepers, Agatha Christie: Poirot, Medics, Bullseye!, Nightbreed, Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade