Robert G. Goodwin |
About Film Fighting LA
Robert Goodwin - Sword Master and Fight/Stunt Coordinator
Robert G. Goodwin has over thirty years' martial arts experience, eighteen years' experience in European weapons, and has trained or choreographed many of Hollywood's leading actors and actresses including: Ron Perlman, Eric Roberts, Patrick Warburton, Khrystyne Haje, Ashley Jones, Illeana Douglas, Charles S. Dutton, Rocky Carroll, Ving Rhames, Matthias Hues, Jennifer Tilly, Elias Koteas, Jake Busey, Crispin Glover, and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Christian Bale (Batman/Bruce Wayne) learning martial arts choreography for "Batman Begins" |
Other projects include performances in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights," "Quest for Camelot," "Dark Mist," and "The Eggplant Lady;" sword foley consultant for "Rob Roy;" stunt coordinator for "I Like To Play Games," "Fast Sofa," "Relax - It's Just Sex," "Boy Crazy - Girl Crazier," "Circuit," "The Transformation" (written and directed by Barry Strugatz ["She-Devil," "Married to the Mob"]); and music video "What Did I Do to You" (by En Vogue singer Terry Ellis); and actor/swordmaster for "The King's Guard."
Honing Kristanna Loken's (the female terminator from "T3")sword skills for her latest film, "Kingdom at Twilight." She plays the lead, 'Brunnhild.' |
Mr. Goodwin has choreographed Off Broadway and regional theatre productions, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, East-West Players, Theatre Forty, the Mark Taper Forum, the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, USC, UCLA, and teaches combat at Loyola Marymount University. Annually Mr. Goodwin instructs at Camp Bravo near Big Bear, a performing arts camp for high school thespians. In addition, Mr. Goodwin has studied T'ai Chi Ch'uan for the last twenty-seven years and currently teaches Yang Short Form through his kwoon, Tao West Arts.
Critical Praise
"Robert Goodwin, the play's fight coordinator directed the violence with teeth-clenching realism, but without resorting to sensationalism,"
-- New York Times
"We were left rattled by scenes of graphic violence."
-- New York Newsday
"Blistering fight direction by Robert Goodwin."
-- Los Angeles Times
"Fight sequences coordinated by Robert Goodwin add a gritty reality to the mean-spirited horseplay."
-- Drama-Logue
"Breathtakingly realistic sword-and-dagger combat that frequently drew gasps from the opening night audience."
-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"A not-to-be-missed duel." Boy Crazy, Girl Crazier
-- New Times, Los Angeles

Robert G. Goodwin
Christian Bale (Batman/Bruce Wayne) learning martial arts choreography for "Batman Begins"
Honing Kristanna Loken's (the female terminator from "T3")