Duncan Airlie James

Duncan Airlie James
Duncan Airlie James
Born	Duncan Campbell; 23 May 1961; Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Nationality	Scottish
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight	15 st 6 lb (98 kg)
Division	Heavyweight
Style	Kickboxing, Muay Thai
Fighting out of	Glasgow, Scotland
Team	Strikeforce Glasgow
Years active	1993–2006
Kickboxing record
Total	48
Wins	32
Losses	14
Draws	2
No contests	0
Other information
Occupation	Actor / Former Kickboxer
Website	http://www.duncanairliejames.com/

Duncan Airlie James (born Duncan Campbell; 23 May 1961) is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in Tomb Raider and ID2: Shadwell Army. He is a former heavyweight kickboxer[1][2] and was the first Scottish fighter to win a world Muay Thai title and fight in K-1.

Early life

James was born Duncan Campbell and was educated at the fee-paying Keil School where he was a competitive rugby player. His martial arts background began when he took up Shotokan karate. He was also a drummer and played with a number of bands including Nazareth. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts in the US to pursue new musical avenues.[3]

He is the older brother of Scottish composer Ross Campbell.

Kickboxing career

When he returned to Scotland, he took up Muay Thai kickboxing in the late 1980s. In 1993, he won his first title, the World Kickboxing Association Commonwealth Light Heavyweight Championship. After successfully defending that title, he vacated it and moved up to the Cruiserweight division and later the Heavyweight division where he won a number of other titles. In February 1999, he made his K-1 debut against Japanese legend Musashi at K-1 Rising Sun '99 and lost via technical knockout after being knocked down three times in the third round. He went on to fight twice more in Japan that year, drawing with Yoji Anjo and losing to karate master Nobuaki Kakuda.

He retired in 2006 with a record of 32 wins, 14 losses and 2 draws.

Titles and honours

Muay Thai:

WKA Commonwealth Super Light Heavyweight Champion (1993)
ISKA World Super Cruiserweight Champion (1998)
WKN World Heavyweight Champion (2001)
WAKO World Heavyweight Champion (2003)
WKF World Heavyweight Champion (2005)
WPKA World Heavyweight Champion

Kickboxing:

WKO World Cruiserweight Champion (1995)
WKA World Heavyweight Champion (2001)

Kickboxing record

32 Wins, 4 Losses, 2 Draws
Date	Result	Opponent	Event	Method	Round	Time	Location	Notes
2006	Loss	Daniel Waciakowski		TKO (shoulder injury)				For WPKL and KL World Heavyweight Championships.
15 April 2006	Loss	Giuseppe DiNatale	Colosseum 2	TKO (punches)			Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada	For IKF World Heavyweight Muay Thai Championship.
May, 2005	Win	Tibor Nagy	World Professional Kickboxing Association/World Kickboxing Federation	Decision (Unanimous)	-	-	Glasgow, Scotland	Wins World Professional Kickboxing Association and World Kickboxing Federation World Heavyweight Muay Thai Championships.
22 February 2004	Loss	Chris Batcheldor	K-1 Battle of Britain 2004	Decision	3	3:00	Wolverhampton, England
November, 2003	Win	Angelo Grenata	WAKO	TKO	2	-	Palermo, Italy	Wins WAKO World Heavyweight Muay Thai Championship.
13 April 2003	Loss	Phil Williams	K-1 World Grand Prix 2003 Preliminary UK	Decision	5	3:00	Birmingham, England
5 April 2002	Loss	Sergei Ivanovich		Decision	3	1:53	Motherwell, Scotland	For WAKO and ISKA World Heavyweight Muay Thai Championships.
30 June 2001	Win	Stephane Reveillon	World Kickboxing Network	KO	1	-	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Wins World Kickboxing Network World Heavyweight Muay Thai Championship.
April, 2001	Win			KO	1		Worcester, England	Wins WKA International Super Heavyweight Championship.
16 April 2000	Loss	John Wyatt	K-1 UK Battle of Britain 2000	TKO	2	2:00	Birmingham, England
6 June 1999	Loss	Nobuaki Kakuda	K-1 Survival '99	Decision (Unanimous)	5	3:00	Sapporo, Japan
15 May 1999	Loss	Jerome Turcan	Strikeforce	Decision	5	3:00	San Jose, California, United States
22 March 1999	Draw	Yoji Anjo	K-1 The Challenge '99	Decision	5	3:00	Tokyo, Japan
3 February 1999	Loss	Musashi	K-1 Rising Sun '99	TKO (3 Knockdowns)	2	2:52	Tokyo, Japan
16 August 1998	Loss	Chris Wright		KO	2	2:04	St. Helens, England	Loss I.K.F Pro Muay Thai Cruiserweight World Title.
June, 1998	Win	Christophe de Tholomaise		Decision			Bangor, Northern Ireland	Wins ISKA World Super Cruiserweight Muay Thai Championship.
1997	Win	Paul Senior	WKA: Quest	KO	-	-	Birmingham, England	Wins WKA: Quest Cruiserweight tournament.
September, 1995	Win	Hassan Babchi		KO	1	-	Glasgow, Scotland	Wins WKO Cruiserweight World Championship.
9 October 1993	Win	Lee Hasdell	WKA	TKO (cut)	-	-	England	Wins WKA Light Heavyweight Commonwealth Muay Thai Championship.

Acting

Duncan Airlie James (centre) at the premiere of In Search of La Che

When he retired from the world of kickboxing, Duncan retrained as an actor. After appearing in a number of short films and a small cameo appearance in the film Perfect Sense, Duncan landed his first leading role when he was asked to play the lead character of John Tavish in the Scottish feature film In Search of La Che. Whilst the film itself received mixed reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, critics were quick to applaud Duncan's performance.[4]

2012 saw Duncan star in many and varied short films including The Priest With Two Guns directed by Rodney Reynolds. The film centres around Father O'Reilly who is troubled when he discovers his brother is in debt to a local money lender.[5] The film went on to pick up a grand jury prize at the 2014 Amsterdam Film Festival.[6] The end of 2012 saw Duncan lend his voice to one of his most recognised roles to date in the short comedy film The Greyness of Autumn.[7] Duncan voiced the character of Danny McGuire, an ostrich living in Glasgow whose life is suddenly turned upside down when he loses his job and his girlfriend in the same day. The film enjoyed great success in the United States,[8] Ireland[9] and the United Kingdom where it featured in the 2014 edition of the Portobello Film Festival.[10] Duncan's performance was widely praised with John McArthur of MovieScramble writing "The hook at the start of the film is the voice of Danny. A deep, resonant and very individual vocal draws you in immediately."[11] In 2013 he played the role of Officer White opposite Jack O'Connell in Starred Up,[12][13] a feature film directed by David Mackenzie. The film went on to win 3 awards at the 2014 British Academy Scotland Awards including Best Feature Film.[14]

In 2015, James starred in the leading role of Major Doug Bormann in Fanatic. He will be reunited with Luke Aherne who directed the web series Frank.

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Role	Notes
2009	Perfect Sense	David Mackenzie	Gym Fighter
2010	Civilisation	Nicholas Vafio	Harry
	Wrath of a Suffragette	Seth Ward / Kev Bagnall	Gerry
	Godforsaken	Sarah Harlow	Ed
2011	Lisa Deserves Better	Paul Allison	Daniel
	The Juice	Phil Thompson	Frankie Boy
	Brathair	Eve Leonard	Steven
	In Search of La Che	Mark D. Ferguson	John Tavish	First Leading Role
	Fate Waits	Ben Macgregor	Mark Syllka
	Got It	Dean Howard	Big Al
	Snagged	Mark Brown	Ziggy
2012	Iustitia	Dave Craig	Iustitia Omnibus
	Violation	Peter Hardy / Charlie Parker	Commander Grier
	Dust	Paul MacAdam	Thommo
	Loan	Ruahdri Hunter	Gerry
	The Priest with Two Guns	Rodney Reynolds	Father O'Reilly
	The Greyness of Autumn	Chris Quick	Danny McGuire	Voice
2013	Starred Up	David Mackenzie	Officer White
	Jab, Cross, Hook	Shaun Sutton	Tam McLean
	Unsuitable	Naomi Phillips	Jimmy
	Fleshmarket Close	Eve Leonard	Duncan
2014	Glory Hunter	Craig Maclachlan	Jerry Gallagher
	Mitchum	Jemma Sutherland	Detective Inspector Mitchum	TV pilot
	K'Nibble	Andrew Dobbie	Gregg McLaren
	Frank	Luke Aherne	Jim	Web Series
	Con	Laura Briggs	Tom
	Tanner Park	Ian Hendry	Iggy
	Two Smoking Barrels	Asib Akram	Frank Vincent
	A Quiet Day	Martin Heron	Joe
2015	Prescription R	Andrew Dobbie	Robert "Boab" Baxter
2015	Fanatic	Luke Aherne	Major Doug Bormann
2016	Directions	Oliver Greenall	Robert
	ID2: Shadwell Army	Joel Novoa	Hunt
	Flux	Anthony Scott	Boris
	Essex Spacebin	David Hollinshead	Gangster
	The Victorious	Chris Anstey	Captain Bernard Gregory
	Ground Below	Toby Saunders	Mitch
2017	Locked In	Pavel Shepan	Brian
2018	Frank	Luke Aherne	Jim
	Synced	Devon Avery	Skin Head Colin
	Outlaw King	David Mackenzie	Beaumont
	Tomb Raider	Roar Uthaug	Terry
	Wild is the North	Hayley McInline	Wadard
2020	Autumn Never Dies	Chris Quick	Danny McGuire / The Chief
2020	Jingle Jangle	David E. Talbert	Constable Carruthers

Awards

Year	Nominated Work	Awards	Category	Result
2019	The Victorious	I Am Film Festival[15]	Best Showreel Scene Actor	Nominated
2020	Autumn Never Dies	Top Indie Film Awards	Best Actor	Nominated

References

Richard Bath (15 August 1999). "No mean street fighter". The Sunday Herald. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
Jim McBeth (23 February 2004). "Battling Scot set to hang up his gloves". The Scotsman. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
"Local Hero: From musician to kick boxer to . . . Hollywood actor? The fascinating journey of Duncan Airlie James". Heraldscotland.com. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
"Reviews". Filmthreat.com. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
"Cargo". Burninghorseshoe.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
"Amsterdam Film Festival - Amsterdam Screenplay Contest - 2014 Winners". Amsterdamfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
"British Council Film: The Greyness of Autumn". Film.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
"Puppet film's a festival hit". Evening Times. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
DISFMF Official Selection Archived 26 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
"PORTOBELLO FREE FESTIVAL 2014" (PDF). Portobellofilmdfestival.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
Noir, John McArthurEditor-in-Chief at Moviescramble A. Fan of all things cinematic with a love of Film; Sci-Fi; day, Julia Roberts in Notting Hill He hopes to grow up some (25 July 2013). "The Greyness of Autumn". Moviescramble. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
"Nerdly » 'Starred Up' Review". nerdly.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
MSN Starred Up Cast Archived 12 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine
"British Academy Scotland Awards: Winners in 2014". Bafta.org. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
I Am Film Festival 2019 Results

External links

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[Bath_1999-1] Richard Bath (15 August 1999). "No mean street fighter". The Sunday Herald. Retrieved 4 November 2008.

[McBeth_2004-2] Jim McBeth (23 February 2004). "Battling Scot set to hang up his gloves". The Scotsman. Retrieved 4 November 2008.

[3] "Local Hero: From musician to kick boxer to . . . Hollywood actor? The fascinating journey of Duncan Airlie James". Heraldscotland.com. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[4] "Reviews". Filmthreat.com. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[5] "Cargo". Burninghorseshoe.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[6] "Amsterdam Film Festival - Amsterdam Screenplay Contest - 2014 Winners". Amsterdamfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[7] "British Council Film: The Greyness of Autumn". Film.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[8] "Puppet film's a festival hit". Evening Times. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[9] DISFMF Official Selection Archived 26 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine

[10] "PORTOBELLO FREE FESTIVAL 2014" (PDF). Portobellofilmdfestival.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[11] Noir, John McArthurEditor-in-Chief at Moviescramble A. Fan of all things cinematic with a love of Film; Sci-Fi; day, Julia Roberts in Notting Hill He hopes to grow up some (25 July 2013). "The Greyness of Autumn". Moviescramble. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[12] "Nerdly » 'Starred Up' Review". nerdly.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[13] MSN Starred Up Cast Archived 12 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine

[14] "British Academy Scotland Awards: Winners in 2014". Bafta.org. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

[15] I Am Film Festival 2019 Results