Charley Boorman
Charley Boorman ( born August 23, 1966 in Wimbledon, London, England ) is a British actor and adventurer.
Family
He is the son of German Christel Kruse and the Englishman John Boorman. Together with his wife, Olive, he has two daughters.
Film career
With the help of his father, director John Boorman, Boorman attained the age of six a movie appearance in Deliverance, each of the first (1972). Nine years later, he returned with the film Excalibur back to the canvas. He had in the movie The Emerald Forest (1985 ), which, in turn, his father was the director and the production a major role. With the filming of The Serpent's Kiss (1997) he met Ewan McGregor, with whom since then connects him a close friend. Since 2004/2005 he takes a break from the movie business to devote himself to ride the motorcycle can (including for the Dakar Rally ).
Projects as Adventurers
Long Way Round
Throughout his life, his passion was motorcycles. His first he drove at age seven. In 2004 he collapsed with Ewan McGregor on the " Long Way Round ". In 115 days, the two rode on motorcycles (BMW R 1150 GS) from London to New York and covered a distance 30,395 km. This trip was filmed for a television series and is also available on DVD.
Race to Dakar
In 2006, Charley Boorman in the Dakar rally - this time on the Touratech completely rebuilt motorcycles from KTM - part.
During the preparations for the race ( cross sand dunes) he broke his collarbone in Dubai, which is why until a few weeks taking part was not backed up before the start.
Together with a team of two other drivers and two mechanics, he was again accompanied and filmed by Russ Malkin, who has produced already " Long Way Round " and later " Long Way Down ". However, Charley broke on the fifth day, after a fall, on one hand two finger joints and dislocated his on the other hand the thumb. Nevertheless, he drove to the accident are still close to 450 kilometer-long drive over gravel and sand to an end. Likewise, he was not traveling prematurely, but instead actively supported the race team and the two other drivers to the end of the event.
Long Way Down
Impressed by the experiences and adventures from the Long Way Round adventure, Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor have made a comparable motorcycle trip like "Long Way Round" in 2007, the Long Way Down. Monitored and documented by the same film crew as in "Long Way Round" and " Race to Dakar" laid the two longtime friends between 12 May and 5 August from John o 'Groats in northern Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa, a distance of about 25,000 km Return. This time they traveled on BMW R 1200 GS Adventure K255, which were modified with accessories the company Touratech for off-road use. During the trip they visited, as it did in Long Way Round, UNICEF projects.
By Any Means
Boorman 2008 broke on a trip that should go from his hometown in Ireland to Sydney, without using a plane. In the German-speaking world is the trip report under the title " The Hard Way: 30.000 kilometers from Ireland to Australia " was published. Here Boorman used a variety of mostly - local - usual ways of moving from the fishing boat over tuk -tuk up to the elephant.
From Sydney to Tokyo By Any Means
A year later, he started on a journey from Sydney to Tokyo, whose report in England on DVD under the name "Right to the Edge: Sydney to Tokyo By Any Means " is, however, not yet published in Germany.