About Dave Judge
Dave has been involved in the entertainments industry for over two and a half decades, the beginning of his career touring live stunt shows and also appearing in various televisions shows such as ‘Gladiators’.
A county standard athlete, Dave was a also a successful motocross competitor racing at national championship level as well as being competitively involved in numerous other sports; Sword Fencing, Rugby, Climbing, trampolining, SCUBA diving and certain more extreme activities such as skydiving, paragliding, freediving and BASE jumping.
In 2001 and 2002 Dave was invited to Prometheus – World stunt Championships held in Moscow. Captaining the UK team he took several awards and world records including a 250ft (75m) car jump into water, documented for television on Channel 4’s Extreme Dangerous Jobs.
As an accomplished Stunt co-ordinator and Action Director, Dave is credited worldwide for his work on major film & television projects, commercials and pop promos and is especially well known throughout the industry for high end stunt rigging projects (wire work) and for spectacular vehicle action sequences.
Professional Qualifications
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours. B.Eng. Hons.
National Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health
Rigging at Height Safety, Rope access and Rope rescue
EFR (Emergency First Response)
PADI Divemaster
AIDA Advanced Freediver
IPAF Telehandler, MEWP and lift truck trained
Taurus Award
In 2013, Dave received the prestigious Taurus world Stunt Ward for his work with the stunt team on “Batman, the Dark Knight Rises”. More recently, Dave has had two further nominations for this “Oscar” of the Stunt world.