CARTER FERGUSON
About: 
I am born and bred in Scotland, and regularly working as fight director on film and television productions. Feature films include 16 Years Of Alcohol, Gamerz and Senseless. Televison work includes 6 years as fight director on STV's TAGGART police drama and 4 years as FD on River City, Scotland's national soap opera. Recent theatre work includes Large productions with the National Theatre Of Scotland and Glasgow's Citizens Theatre. I am an experienced FD with many skills including diverse swordplay, risk assessment and experience in CGI gunfire and blue screen work. CV includes more than 220 professional productions to date. Full CV and showreel on request. You can contact me directly through www.fightdirector.com
Categories:  Action Co-ordinator, Choreographer, Stunt Person
eMail:  http://www.ukscreen.com/contact/fightman
WWW:  http://www.ukscreen.com/crew/fightman
Tel:  0141 636 0880
Mobile:  0774 0870989
Address:  18 Cathkinview Rd, Mount Florida
glasgow
G42 9EL
Scotland
United Kingdom
Company:  CARTER FERGUSON
Date of Birth:  1972-02-16
Nationality:  United Kingdom
Experience:  13 yrs
Languages:  English
CARTER FERGUSON photo
Training and Skills
Formal Training: 
  1. QMC, EDINBURGH - DIP DRAMA (ACTING)
  2. BAF - WEAPONS COACH, FOIL EPEE SABRE
  3. ADD/TRAINING - PROF BERT BRACEWELL (FIGHT DIRECTOR AND OLYMPIC COACH)
Other Skills: 
Many diverse sword skills, police combat and restraints, general hand to hand and fist fighting, bayonet, quarter staff, trident and net, rapier and dagger, cloak etc, modern fencing skills in all weapons, CGI experience with gunfire etc, editing and directing experience, textual interpretation, risk assessment and general people skills. Trained actor with ability to work in an actor/ fight director capacity. Can train actors from scratch to use weapons required for production.
Additional Information
My website is www.fightdirector.com - This has my full and regularly updated CV as well as many photographs, diary, links to fight videos etc etc
Cut and paste this link http://www.channel4.com/player/v2/player.jsp?showId=3594 to see a channel 4 online documentary about me.
Credits
Type Production Name Company Role Year
TV DEAR GREEN PLACE F&G FOR BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2007
TV LEGIT (SERIES) COMEDY UNIT FOR BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2007
TV RIVER CITY (MULTI - EP) BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2007
Theatre HAMLET CITIZENS THEATRE COMPANY FIGHT DIRECTOR 2007
Theatre TUTTI FRUTTI (TOUR) NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND FIGHT DIRECTOR 2007
Feature Film SENSELESS PLUM FILMS / MATADOR FIGHT DIRECTOR 2006
TV LEGIT (PILOT) COMEDY UNIT FOR BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2006
TV REICHENBACH FALLS BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2006
TV RIVER CITY (MULTI - EP) BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2006
TV SEA OF SOULS (MULTI - EP) BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2006
TV TAGGART (MULTI - EP) STV/ SMG FIGHT DIRECTOR 2006
Theatre HOME NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND FIGHT DIRECTOR 2006
Theatre MARY STUART NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND FIGHT ADVISOR 2006
Theatre NO MEAN CITY CITIZENS THEATRE COMPANY FIGHT DIRECTOR 2006
Theatre TUTTI FRUTTI NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND FIGHT DIRECTOR 2006
Feature Film GAMERZ PURE MAGIC FILMS FIGHT DIRECTOR 2005
Short Film AT THE END OF THE SENTENCE Brazen Hussies Ltd/ BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2005
TV REBUS STV/ SMG FIGHT DIRECTOR 2005
TV RIVER CITY (MULTI - EP) BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2005
TV SEA OF SOULS (MULTI - EP) BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2005
TV TAGGART (MULTI - EP) STV/ SMG FIGHT DIRECTOR 2005
Documentary THE HOUSE THAT GOD BUILT BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2004
Feature Film WILD COUNTRY WILD COUNTRY FILMS LTD FIGHT MASTER 2004
TV RIVER CITY (MULTI - EP) BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2004
TV TAGGART (MULTI - EP) STV/ SMG FIGHT DIRECTOR 2004
TV TAGGART (MULTI - EP) STV/ SMG FIGHT DIRECTOR 2003
Documentary WITCHCRAZE BBC FIGHT DIRECTOR 2002
TV TAGGART (MULTI - EP) STV/ SMG FIGHT DIRECTOR 2002
TV TAGGART (MULTI - EP) STV/SMG FIGHT DIRECTOR 2001
Feature Film 16 YEARS OF ALCOHOL 16 YEARS FIGHT DIRECTOR 2000
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