Brandon Cole Marger is an American stuntman nicknamed Bam, an athlete, director, musician, television and radio star. In short, a versatile personality, one of the most famous in show business. He was born in 1979 and still remains active and famous, performing risky tricks and infecting others with his irrepressible optimism.
Biography
Marghera Bam was born in West Chester, a town in the US state of Pennsylvania. From childhood he adored risky dynamic games, and his grandfather gave the restless child the nickname "Bem" - with that sound the future stuntman crashed into all the obstacles - doors, walls, furniture, but did not abandon attempts to break them once.
Brandon did not like a school where he needed to sit at his desk and study, and attended it only because of his friendship with the black guy Chris Raab, who later also became a TV star. When Chris was expelled from school, Bam also abandoned his education and was closely engaged in his favorite business - risky stunts on a skateboard.
Together with his friends and even some relatives, Brandon began filming videos about his hobby, which then resulted in a series of CKY - a large number of videos featuring West Chester youth. This project was very successful commercially - friends sold more than four hundred thousand copies.
Career
Following the success of Bam’s videos, he was noticed by Jeff Tremaine, a former editor-in-chief of the magazine about skateboarding and street youth subculture. In 2000, he invited a talented guy to the team to shoot the realistic comedy "Eccentrics", the slogan of which warned the audience: "Do not try to repeat it yourself!"
Since 2001, Bemu has been offered sponsorship by Element, and the stuntman became a member of the famous Team Element demo, working with the firm until 2016. However, Marger almost never had permanent sponsors, at different times signing contracts with various companies that produce sports accessories.
Bam and Ryan Dunn, an American stuntman, became the basis of the cast of the film, in which there are a lot of funny and ridiculous tricks, practical jokes and experiments that can really be deadly to an unprepared person. Following the first picture, several more parts of "Eccentrics" followed.
In 2003, Brandon starred in the Grind skateboarding film, playing himself. As a result, it turned into a real show Viva la Bam, which became very popular on American television. Bam, along with his team, performed a variety of tricks and tasks in many American cities.
Margera produced, wrote scripts and starred in three independent films, and also participated in several feature films and acted as a director in the 2003 comedy Haggard, dedicated to the biography of Ryan Dunn. In 2008, the continuation of the picture came out. Since 2004, Brandon created his own Radio Bam, participated in the videos of many stars, played football with a team of rockers from Bon Jovi, became a character in a sports computer game. In the spring of 2018, wrestling star Hulk Hogan “buried” the famous skateboarder on his Twitter account, for which he received a fair share of anger from Bem fans. The stuntman is still alive and full of plans for the future, although, of course, in recent years he has been less and less involved in sports.
