Yesterday, August 7, 2021, the actor, stuntman and stunt coordinator died at the age of 48. Bradley Allan.
Allan is known for his role in the film "Fabulous" (1999), performing stunts in many films Jackie Chan, as well as in the Hollywood spy trilogy "Kingsman" (2015, 2017, 2021), blockbusters "Pacific Rim" (2013) "Han Solo: A Star Wars Story" Stories" (2018) and many others. The first non-Asian athlete to be included in Jackie Chan's stunt team.
Bradley James Allan born 14 February 1973 in Melbourne. At the age of ten he began to practice boxing and karate, and at the age of 14 he began to study wushu together with members of the Beijing national team - Liyan Chang-Xin и Tan Lai-Weem. He was a member of the Australian team at the 4th World Wushu Championships in Rome in November 1997.
Allan's first cameo appearance on screen was in the film "Drunken Master 3" 1994, - an unofficial sequel with Andy Lau starring.
In 1997, Allan learns that Jackie Chan is filming "Mr. Cool" in Melbourne and rushes to the set. There, he demonstrates his impressive martial arts skills and ends up joining the crew. A year later he is already duplicating Ron Smoorenburg and film "Who am I?", and then officially joins Jackie Chan's stunt team. A year later, Bradley had the honor of starring in a full-fledged on-screen fight in the film "Fabulous", where in the final fight he embodies one of Jackie's most brilliant and skilled opponents.
Subsequently, Bradley Allan became not just an excellent stuntman and sought-after stunt coordinator, but one of the pillars of action cinema, making an invaluable contribution to this genre. His fight with Jackie Chan in the film "Fabulous" is rightfully considered one of the best screen fights in history, showing Allan as a charismatic and phenomenal screen fighter who was ahead of his time. And staging stunts and fights in "Kigsman: The Secret Service" и "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" secured his title as an experimenter and innovator in this field, combining in his approach both Asian and Western achievements of stunt art.
His departure from the world is an irreparable loss for the world of action cinema. The cause of death is currently listed as illness, but details are still being finalized.
Rest in peace Bradley.
A truly irreparable loss. Moreover, Bradley was still quite far from old age. That's terrible!