Background
Bamford was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and presently lives and works out of Vancouver, Canada.
Bamford was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and presently lives and works out of Vancouver, Canada.
Height: 6 ft 0in
Bamford has been a stunt double for many actors, including Matthew Fox, Mickey Rourke and Ben Browder, and worked as a stunt performer and stunt coordinator on television shows from X-Files to Arrow, and films including Final Destination, The Chronicles of Riddick and X-Men 2. He is best known for his work on Stargate Atlantis, and has appeared at many Stargate conventions in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Joseph Mallozzi, producer of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, hosted a Q&A to Bamford on his Wordpress blog in 2008, and called him "the fearless one".
Premiere Scene interviewed James Bamford about stunt coordination at the London Film and Comic Con, where he says that "safety is our first concern".
Next Level Radio interviewed James Bamford, where he says that "a stunt performer has a 100% likelihood of being injured."
James Bamford was voted by the public to be photographed as part of a collaborative Calotype photography exhibition called Vancouver Creatives by VNB, comprising portraits of 22 creative Vancouverites. The magazine Vancouver is Awesome was one of the sponsors of the exhibition.
District of Columbia Entertainment"s District of Columbia All Access went behind the scenes on the television show Arrow in April 2014, where James Bamford demonstrates some stunt action. James Bamford was the fight coordinator on the Arrow stunt coordination team led by Josip Juraj Makaro, which was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as the Most Likely to Earn Someone an Emmy in their 5th Annual Season Finale Awards, 2014.