Carter Ferguson

Carter Ferguson is a Scottish based fight director and actor. He has over 400 professional credits to date as a fight director and has appeared in over 140 episodes of the Scottish Soap Opera "River City" as the character Harry Black. Carter has recently released a 3 part web series based in the World Of 28 Days Later called "The Rage". This series made as "a bit of fun" in homage to the work of Danny Boyle, although ostensibly a fan film, has already sparked international attention and calls for a second internet "mini series".

As a fight director he has worked extensively in the Scottish film TV and theatre circuit for 13 years and now holds the position of fight director on television programmes such as "Taggart" STV and "River City" BBC. He has directed fight sequences for feature films including Gamerz, Senseless, Wild country and 16 Years of Alcohol with Kevin McKidd. He is the regular fight director at Glasgow's Citizen's Theatre. His fights have received outstanding reviews, with Hamlet recently described by "The Times" as "The most convincing sword fight seen on stage in years." He recently directed fights on the BBC3 drama Reichenbach Falls based on the story of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. This drama proved so popular that it was later screened on BBC 1. He has had advised on fights for both "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and The Gem Merchant with Harvey Keitel.

As an actor he has appeared regularly in "River City", in the feature film "Women Talking Dirty" in scenes with Helena Bonham Carter and the feature film "Complicity" in scenes with Brian Cox and Johnny Lee Miller.

Carter has associations with Scottish Youth Theatre as an Associate Director receiving great critical acclaim and 5 star reviews for productions he has directed such as "Tall Tales for Small Wonders", "The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil", "Waking Shadows" and "Merlin, The Wild boy". Carter has directed two short films for The Fostering Network to aid in the training of potential foster carers and as mentioned above, released an internet based mini series made on a budget of just £1000-. He is currently in post production for his next film "Shadow Play", and is in pre production for 3 other films.

He continues to work mainly as a freelance fight director based in Scotland.

External links

* [http://www.fightdirector.com Fightdirector.com]