Bobby is a 28 year old Stuntman and has been doing stunts in movies since the

beginning of 2008. He has performed in such blockbuster action films as "Batman:

The Dark Knight Rises", "Quantum of Solace", "Harry Potter", "Pirates of the

Caribbean", "Sherlock Holmes", "Captain America", "Robin Hood", the Oscar winning

"Inception", "Skyfall" and "Thor" to name but a few. This has involved being a stunt

double for the likes of Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Daniel Craig, Ryan

Reynolds, and Jake Gyllenhaal.

At the tender age of four, Bobby started his career as a Gymnast, and climbed

through the ranks to compete as a National Squad Member and National Gold

Medallist for Great Britain. Bobby competed and also won gold medals in countries

such as France, Russia, United States of America, and training camps in the

Ukraine.

Bobby retired from Gymnastics at 17 and turned his attention to football, quickly

becoming a semi-professional footballer for Fareham Town FC at the age of 19.

With his huge appetite for performing unabated, he started to perform in Live

Action Shows, Pantomimes, various TV Shows and worldwide modelling campaigns

& commercials for K-Swiss trainers, Adidas, Pepsi, Joop aftershave and many more.

Some of these jobs found Bobby doubling Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, and

David Beckham before he decided to become a professional Stunt Performer.

Bobby then trained in all the disciplines needed to achieve the goal of becoming a

Stuntman, which took the best part of 4 years (training full time). This meant

qualifying in skills such as Kickboxing, Swimming, and 10m High Diving,

Gymnastics, Trampolining, and Scuba Diving.

Since then Bobby has performed in 22 full feature movies, alongside such

luminaries as Natalie Portman, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Michael

Caine, Gary Oldman, Samuel L Jackson, Jonny Depp, Leonardo di Caprio, Sir Ben

Kingsley, Geoffrey Rush, Tom hanks, Angelina Jolie, Judy Dench and for directing

greats like Chris Nolan, Steven Spielberg, Paul Greengrass and Ridley Scott. His

career has seen Bobby winning 2 SAG Awards for "Inception" and "Harry Potter the

Deathly Hollows", with 2 further SAG 2013 nominations for "The Dark Knight Rises"

and "Skyfall". Bobby has also received 2 Taurus World Stunt Award nominations for

"Quantum of Solace" and "the Prince of Persia the Sands of Time", and a 2009

Guinness World Record for the most targets hit with a back somersault throw in

one hour.

Here Bobby tackles a new challenge. Promoting a new car. The Ford B-Max. The

tagline for the commercial is ‘Life Is An Open Door’ which is exactly what Bobby

will be diving through in order to capture the moment.

The promo is being directed by non-other than veteran James Bond director Martin

Campbell. The man who gave us Pierce Brosnan as Bond in Goldeneye and saved

the franchise and the man who returned to save it again with Daniel Craig in

Casino Royale. The shooting location is Barcelona and Bobby is under the watchful

eye of stunt co-ordinator Tom Struthers.

The idea is that Bobby climbs up onto the diving board, looks down and sees the

car suspended below him. The doors open, he dives through the car, into the pool!

Now the mathematics has to be applied to this to give it a sense of realism. If he

dives in the glorious swan like fashion he adopts at the top of the board he’ll hit

the car and probably kill himself. So a mechanism was created allowing him to dive

straight and true every time…wind prevailing that is.

Attached by his ankles he assumes the dive position and holds this straight dive

pose as a crane lowers him, at a fair speed equivalent to dive pace, through the

car and into the pool. This is all well and good is the breeze is on your side. The

slightest gust could cause enough movement to throw you into the side of the

vehicle and cause considerable damage…if not worse. So every possibility is taken

into consideration before action is called.

This is Bobby’s view as he looks from the top of the board. An incredible thing to

be asked to do and all to promote a new car. The things we do for an honest buck

eh?

After half a dozen takes at various speeds the shoot is complete and Bobby can

relax.

The finished product is a slick advertising campaign. In adverts like these the car is

always the star, but as we can see from the hard work and determination that

Bobby had put in he is able to take his fair share of the limelight.

Undeniably at the top of his game Bobby continues to push the envelope when it

comes to challenging stunt work. His credits speak for themselves, everyone a

box office smash and each outing gives a new generation of movie goer the rush

of adrenaline similar to the rush he gets from performing.