Stuntman Jim Dowdall | Top 5 Tanks | The Tank Museum
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- For the third in our Top 5 series we invited Stuntman Jim Dowdall to come to The Tank Museum. Star Wars, James Bond, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter; Jim has been part of just about every big film franchise you can think of, as well as the biggest war films from the last few decades - Saving Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates, Where Eagles Dare and Fury. www.jimstunt.com/
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Plz let him do a "Top 25" - I could listen to him all day.
The first 4000 hour video uploaded to youtube that isn't a loop.
Agree!
Agreed!
Agree!
This guy is great. Good delivery, relaxed expert.
Pomagranate Pie are you serious? they were all pretty great! talk like that will get you sent to the salt mines...
I think he was talking about Lindybeige, not Jingles.
I love Mighty Jingles and Lindy Baige, but I have to admit, this guy was my favorite, and that is saying A LOT.
As much as I love Jingles and Lloyd, I actually learned something from this guy... I had no idea what that strange waffle pattern on German WWII Tanks was all about until today.
Terentius Varro Jingles will be surprised to not be considered an old timer
"If you can't afford a spitfire..."
*i can barely afford food*
Sky Flier (NORTH KOREA INTENSIFIES)
Food bank for you....
c0mmies left for us to fight
With a StuG, you can get anything you need....
There is a bit of self aggrandizing boomer out of touchness the whole time isn’t there
All of the "Top Five Tanks" chats have been great. But Jim Dowdall's is simply the best.
I appreciate the perspective of the other guest Tank Chatters: Lindy Beige and Indy Neidell did great presentations that reflect their own unique view on military history and engineering. And I'm quite sure other historians and engineers, military experts and statisticians can give their own views on which armored fighting vehicles were most significant and/or effective.
Describing Jim Dowdall as merely a "stuntman" is almost absurdly modest. This is a man who doesn't just drive a massive, dangerous, unpredictable, and unwieldy military monster. He's the guy who knows how to make it work in the way that film makers need to entertain us onscreen. He's been an integral part of so many of the movies that brought armored fighting vehicles to life, for the past half century: Where Eagles Dare; The Eagle Has Landed; GoldenEye , Fury.
Jim is obviously the consummate professional. A man who loves his work, and has the skill and dedication to make magic happen. The perfect complement to the professionals of the Tank Museum, and the incredibly valuable and fascinating collection they maintain.
Thanks for your work, Jim, on so many great movies. And thanks to the Tank Museum for having the vision to let people like Jim Dowdall share their experiences with the rest of us.
Although the Chieftain's top 5 certainly comes close
Drew Henderson .so he done fury as well drew?
@@1993Crag hardly
@@Gustav_Kuriga Why not? Actual operational and historical knowledge is bad?
Agree totally.
This guy sounds like he has had a legendary life!
hidden4 time 68
I hereby congratulate you on 600 likes!
Not many tank fans can say they’ve driven a tank. And better still owned a Sherman
"....is still having a....."
"When god was a Corporal" I love how seamlessly/dead-pan he threw the joke in. This Dude rules!
Best Tank Museum video yet. Absolutely fascinating anecdotes from a real tank fan. I would love to see a video of Jim Dowdall and David Fletcher drinking tea and discussing tanks. 😍
I want the same video... along with one each with the other two guest speakers also ;-)
@SteelScooter I like your pfp
Just had a look on his website... Turns out he was the German soldier with the MP40 in the famous fountain scene of Enemy at the Gates.
Heh - we're all going to look through IMDB and feel like we know him, now :)
Ahhh that explains it.
@@tigercat418 I'm sure his hand is
The moment you described him as the MP40 guy I recognized him as the MP40 guy xDD
Smooth camera moves! I suspect Matt has acquired some sort of 'gimbal'.
hey!
u still in the museum XDDDD
Top 5 tanks: 1. T-34. Good armor, good gun, and they built around 80,000.
2. Panzer 4. A good tank built in sufficient numbers, unlike the Tigers and Panthers
3. That Czech tank that the Germans got when they took over Czechoslovakia. A sufficiently good tank built in numbers.
4. The British Matilda II. Had good armor. Built in numbers.
5. ???
Lindybeige If you cant afford a spitfire
buy this
im am dead this is the funnist thing ever
Thomas Smith if you thought the T34 had good armour...I pity you
What an archive! Fascinating first hand accounts of some movie magic. Thanks for making this!
has he written a book?dishing the dirt on starwars and indiana jones should be a good read.p.s.i too think the panther is sex on two tracks.
Only a Brit would insist on a right hand drive T-55!
Ahem, Brosnan is Irish.
Pique I didn't say English. And besides, I'm not sure he had a part in deciding which hole he would stick out of. As Mr. Dowdall said, Brosnan's part in the matter was looking handsome.
Jim, you said Brit. Brosnan isn't British, he's Irish (although we both drive on the left). But yeah, he wouldn't have much input into that aspect of course.
Pique Who was it who said something like: "The Queen's on your money, that makes you British!" ?
BTW, My grandfather (from Manchester) would have been the first to chide me for such a lapse in cultural knowledge. ;->
I'm sorry Jim. The Queen is not on our money. In Ireland, we have the €uro. Northern Ireland is part of the UK alright, but Brosnan is originally from Meath, in the Republic of Ireland.
Logs as extra protection? Sure. Spare track was also used in the same way, as seen here on the side of the Panther. But that's not all the logs were good for. If you got stuck in the mud, you could chain them to the track to help get you out.
Great for catching termites too.
@2:53 "If you cant afford spitfire this(Achilles) is the next best thing"
Makes you wonder how much income he thinks people watching this have.
I think it was said very tongue in cheek.
Why people think they can't achieve anything in life? Don't fall short of your dreams just like Jim did saving his money for his first tank.
Maybe he met Airfix 1/72 scale model?
Armoured vehicles aren't all that expensive. A T-34 or a T55 for instance starts at about $44,000 which is less than high end cars. An OT-64 starts at $9500 www.mortarinvestments.eu/products/armoured-vehicles-4/ot-64-skot-89#currency=USD
'I first drove one of these in 'Where Eagles Dare'' in ninteen frefrefrer''
Hahaha, love the guy's sense of humour.
Made me think of that seen in Army of Darkness.... :-D
1968
I believe every self-respecting Tank guy gets slightly aroused by the sight of a StuG.
Got a stug looking at the stug ;)
I am erect as I type this.
Yes. But with long gun. I don’t like the short gun
I didn't chose the StuG life, the StuG life chose me.
@@kailaine3974 it has to have the long gun
I love how he's calmly talking about Michael Caine like no big deal 😂
Well if it weren't for the fact that I'm 4,800 miles away and there's a small puddle between us; you would probably have to chase me out with a broom each night when you closed. Otherwise I might move in to the TOG and just live there.
I've been camping out in their Tiger II for the last two weeks. They still haven't found me.
RaeSyngKane it's only a small puddle
It's barely there
sorry to burst your bubble but I think The Might Jingles has already moved in.
That should be fine. Plenty of room for both of them, their families and a small garden in between.
You wouldn't want to stay overnight,"Hermann the German",the museum ghost might get you!!!!RaeSyngKane
really great guys! I'm thinking of going to the U.K. just to see this place.
ribsi85 you will not be disappointed...its a fantastic museum and not too far from the seaside town of weymouth!
Hell, what war movie has this guy NOT worked on?!
Zack Tyler apparently none of them. This guy does it all.
Presumably any movie without a tank in it.
Zack Tyler Waterloo?
Starship troopers
Mean girls
Fun fact: the t55 from golden eye (#343) made an appearence in Red Dwarf in the Pride and Prejudice episode driven by Kryten
Thank you to Jim Dowdall and The Tank Museum for this. (:
Simply marvelous and fun to see and hear from someone like Jim.
This is my favourite tank chat where a guest gives their top 5. Jim tells such great stories and his enthusiasm is infectious. Utrinque Paratus brother.
kettenkrad, genius thing that is, i love them so much
That thing is as german as it gets...wild idea, overengineered to the point of pointlessness.
Paavo Bergmann that’s what makes it cool
This guy is one of the most interesting people ive ever seen on youtube
Dear Lord! I swear, "When God was a corporal..." is my new favourite expression. Bar none. Love it....
Heh, my predictable reaction to #4 as a Finn: Is he going to mention it's Finnish? Is he going to mention it's Finnish? He did! Jee! Torilla tavataan!
Perkele!
Sorry, I don´t know any more words in Finnish :[ but I felt like I should contribute to the general enthusiasm.
Suomi perkele
I read "Torilla" as "Tortilla" and was instantly confused.
@@Phobos_Anomaly even more confused after you translate it and try to understand it's meaning.
@@Kamellion Good to know. Thanks.
Now this is a true aficionado! Thank you for sharing your passion with us, Mr. Dowdall.
And congratulations on your wonderful (and expansive) career as well!
Many thanks for sharing this with us. Lots of interesting real world accounts of how these tanks were used and then changed to allow them to be used in the film industry. I must admit the James Bond film Golden Eye is one of my favourites and that Tank chase scene is just the best, if a little tongue in cheek. Many thanks once again,
Joe
I really enjoy these! This one was the best so far! Very interesting stories. You should invite James May to do his top 5 tanks.
After watching this video i have finally decided that i'm going to treat myself by going to the tank museum on my 40th birthday next year so, i'll be back to share that experience here as well.
The BEST top tanks video on this channel. Very detailed and informative. I was glued to his commentary from the first minute! The T-55 Goldeneye story was fascinating!
This is actually the best episode of this series. Jim is a very good presenter. Strangely, I watched Goldeneye on TV the a couple of nights before this came out, I saw it several times as a kid and loved it. This was the first time I had wandered who was actually driving the tank, I was going to look it up, it was a bit odd when Jim declared it was him lol.
I loved the video. Simply loved it. Thank you kind sirs.
The T-55 story, so good :D
Hire him to do more videos!
To me as an american this is the best top 5 tanks, fully enjoyed every second
I love him already. His number 5 is my fav TD. 4.. the Stug 3. oh yes it just gets better. This is the best top 5 yet by far. He nails the best for me from all the others so far. Not only that he presents it so well. All the others have a 10-12min video. Jims was 30 min. I first cringed as I hit play due to its length. Oh no. He could pick his best 10 and keep talking for 30 min longer and I would be glued.
"Family allowance". LOL. I love the British language.
Yeh! An' "giving it large"! An' "the one who took the handsome lessons"!
What an awesome guy - I really appreciate his sense of professionalism and security, while still retaining 'the little boy' in his heart :D :D
and he took part in 'Where Eagles dare' - one of my all-time favorite movies! :D :) :D
Things to do before die:
- Drifting with a T-55
done....
Please have Mr. Dowdall do another one ! This man is incredibly entertaining .
I’ve watched loads of these ‘Top 5 Tanks’ now by a whole array of people and this in my opinion is the most interesting and informative one of all of them. Well Done. Incidentally it’s the one with the ‘top 5 tanks’ that would be closest to my own choices too.
I could listen to this guy for hours. His enthusiasm and his storytelling makes it extremely worthwhile.
Absolutely superb video. Get him on again to talk about tanks!
The best of all the "Top 5 Tanks" vids IMHO. This guy really knows tanks because he's worked on them & lived with them. I particularly liked the Kettenkrad part.
Come for a top 5 tanks and get a bonus stuntman story on Golden Eye... I love it!
Mr. Dowdall was absolutely fascinating! I could listen to him talk all day about his films plus his obvious love and extensive knowledge of war machines.
Superb Video! Thanks
Great storyteller. I enjoyed every minute of this video.
I could listen to him all day, i love the way he is explaining things...
That meaty slap when he hits the Achilles was legendary.
Thanks, Mr Dowdall, for educating us, and for your contributions to so many entertaining movies.
One of the best top 5 tanks i have seen. Love your choices and the stories behind them...!
Jim Dowdall, Gave a great commentary, great depth of knowledge. I feel like he just getting warmed up and there is a lot more he could say.
@21:44 - "I first drowe one of these in the film called 'where eagles dare' in nineteensixteENHPGPEFMKFEGEPP"
BRILLIANT! :-)
I could watch more videos of him, probably would be bloody intersting! Do please make it happen because I know a Tank nut when I see one and he kind of fits perfectly!
No offense to the normal video curators, but this is by far my favorite video I've watched on the channel, Jim just has that special personality that draws the viewer in on a deeper level....
I can't believe a dozen people actually downvoted this. a great video and a great piece of History both of movies and battle
What a superb presenter! I love your enthusiasm and I share your delight in the vehicles you have talked of. With a background of Vintage and what are now referred to as classic vehicles I joined REME in the early 70's and had huge fun yes fun working on the strange mix of obsolecent armour that still existed in BAOR at that time. The delight was that very little support was available for spares and we had to use our initiative to invent means of keeping it all going. Oh I wish that on demob I had found my way into film instead of North sea oil which was only ever entertaining when bits fell off in bad weather!
I'd live to have a pint with Jim. Utterly fascinating
When I heard what he does I almost skipped the video. GREAT JOB! There is nothing like owning and working on a vehicle to truly know the ins and outs.
"Family Allowance" My god these Brits have a crafty vocabulary
Wowee, the cost of shooting those shots in St Petersburg. Mocking up a Saladin for that one shot. Also just love the brutal simplicity of the T-55.
those t-55 stories were amazing!
A Stug ! What a great video. I remember thinking the same thing when I saw that Stug in the railway sequence in the Eagle Has Landed. Thanks for the great stories.
Thanks Jim for your 5 favorite AFVs. A very interesting talk. How does driving a tank compare with driving an At-At or flying an X-wing?
I bet some parts of AT-ATs or some machines/interiors in Star Wars were T-55-based.
Wow, Jim is awesome, his stories are fantastic. I had never heard of him before, but he's right up there with David Fletcher and Jingles for my fav tank guys now.
STUG FOR LIFE!
Stug Life! XD
Panther Life!
This guy is a natural! he obviously loves the subject. We want MORE!
8:45 love who he demonstrated the weight of the track
That tank chase in Golden eye was awesome. I loved the drifting. I wondered how they did that.
Hey Tank Museum! do a top 5 tanks with Squire! :)
Love to hear that, or even with QB.
Yaaassss!!!! This needs to happen!!!
POZ Gaming It has happened!
Very knowledgable and experienced gentleman. REAL working knowledge and good stories. Fantastic!!
Weird. I have known of the Sow's Head mantlet for years and can readily tell the difference between that and the early more boxy style, but never knew why it was called that.
Then watching this video and suddenly went 'Oh yeah... it looks like a pig...' :P
Really great video.
Legend. Great knowledge. I've always wanted a spitfire, now I have an achilles to my ambition.
"You don't come back for a second dose"
I love it!
This is an amazing episode. Jim Dowdall is a legend. Very awesome hearing his stories and favorite tanks.
it's not about bulk, it's not about the thickness of the armor,
IT'S ABOUT GERMAN OVERENGENEERING
Jim Dowdall, You are a British charmer! So entertaining. So informative. And still an armor nerd like the rst of us. One reason why I have always been such an Anglophile! Thank you Jim!
I always thought the logs were used for mud, not armor protection.
In russian tank yes as it was set on top of the tank and due to terrain in russia
you're right; wood is incredibly soft and basically does nothing to stop a bullet or shell. in any case they'd've been used for getting out of the mud as you said
Maliboost it's kinda like putting the spare tracks on the front glacius. They are for replacing broken tracks, but why not get a little bit of protection from it too?
I've heard they are mainly for traction assistance also. But maybe they'd double as "armor" in that they might cause a shape charge to detonate at a less than ideal distance as well?
Maliboost WWI British tanks were built so that the unditching beams could run the whole length of the track, then up over the top and around again. I thin the logs were like sandbags I've seen piled on Shermans. They might not help much, but they might give that tiny bit of difference that kept the crew alive.
"Dirty dozen". One of my favorite movies when I was a kid. Also, the term "gas axe" tells me the man has actually worked for a living.
Did he mention a bridge too far? Everybody was in that.
What would be interesting is if they brought over MHV. He'd probably faint seeing all of the German Tanks.
Jim’s inclusion of stories from the movies he worked on truly enhanced the video
Does David Fletcher have a top 5 tanks?
Hernan Dominguez I'd watch that dozens of times.
He was once asked about his favorite (in Operation Think Tank), and he mentioned he is very fond of a particular armored car, but I can´t remember which one was it.
+Richardsen in the tank chat: tank fest 2016 video David gives a lecture from the back of a ww1 armoured car, I believe it is the one you are talking about.
Prepare for a 4-hour video if they ever do that :)
He would pick the museum
what on earth did 8 people find to dislike ... that was great
The Soviet IS2 tanks had 122mm guns that could knock out a Panther at a mile.
The Soviet IS152 tank killer had a gun so powerful that the shell could knock the turret off a tiger with kinetic energy alone.
Jim's is by far my favourite one of these: relaxed, informative, and interesting throughout. Thanks for posting.
nice Top 5
I didn't know this person before, but seen all the movies he been. Wow he is a lovely person and love tanks. The time when he speaks about the stug ... I wish I had a life like him.
Damn. I should have asked for an Achilles for Christmas!
Remember to ask for one this year!
@@operatorpsyduck2035 Will do, thank you!
This guy should do more, hes really good.
This is my pornography
Im not kidding, i got hard from the stug
Elevate the gun and penetrate its rear!
Jaak Sootak what if there's no gun barrel :O
Red Noob then it's a girl
…You've found your 'w#nk tank'
Great video. Really enjoyed Jim's delivery. Sounds like he worked on all the films of my childhood.
I think that T55 is actually a T54, it has a vent housing in front of loaders hatch wich I think was not on the T55 anymore if i'm not mistaking
Curious Yeah, it's a T-54 Model 1951.
The suspension has the somewhat early T-54 roadwheels, the vent on top, and the gun has no time extractor.
nope its a 54 not a 55 (unelss you saying 55 is a typo) the dome vent is the be-all end-all differece between the two
theminecartgaming Its a typo. T-55 didn't exist in 1951
+SovietTenkDestroyer The fume extractor does not tell anything, both the T54 and T55 either had them or not. It's the vent housing ontop of the turret, infront of the loaders hatch that makes the difference. The T54 had one, and they got rid of it on the T55.
Curious I'm aware. All T-55s had them, however, the earlier T-54s lacked time extractors.
I heard a Canadian tank general, who had been the top scoring tank ace for the Allies on the Western European front in WW2, named Sidney Radley-Walters, talk about how he destroyed German Panther tanks with his ordinary old Sherman--NOT the Firefly!
He said you had to get within about 800 to 900 yards of the Panther and directly in front of it. Then you aimed your 75mm cannon at the portion of the Panther's turret that held its cannon and bounced your shot off the bottom half of the rounded off mantel directly above where the driver sat. Then the round would ricochet directly down and pass through the much more thinly armoured part of the hull and kill the driver, also destroying his driving controls.
When the reporter doing the interview (who was absolutely google-eyed) asked him if it was actually possible to "hit a six inch bull's eye at 900 yards with your first shot?" Radley-Walters said completely straight faced "Sure, why not?"
How would you like to do that for a living?
General Sidney Radley-Walters, a preacher's son from Quebec, killed 19 German tanks with his Sherman during the war. As far as I know, he is still alive and living in a retirement home somewhere in Ontario. (Oops! Actually he died in April of 2015 at the age of 95!)
As he gave the interview for the documentary "The Valour and the Horror", they were standing in a Normandy tank museum with a Panther and a Sherman sitting one beside the other. The German tank looked like a behemoth next to the diminutive Sherman. It really put things in perspective!
I think very few of us realize just how tough and steely nerved our Normandy tank vets were, especially on the Canadian and British fronts where they faced by far the bulk of all the German armour around Caen. Something like 70% of all German armour in Normandy faced us at Caen, which other people have told me was the heaviest concentration of armour per square mile during all of WW2. Even heavier than at Kursk!
"The Valour and the Horror" is available for viewing here on TH-cam at: th-cam.com/video/vLFqGOh78qU/w-d-xo.html The interview with General Sidney Radley-Walters begins at the 1:29:40 mark of this episode called "In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944."
My hat comes off to all of our Normandy vets still living ...
Another method of killing a Panther with the lowly Sherman was to bounce a shot off the ground and through the underbelly of the Panther, where the armour was thinnest.
Personally, I wouldn't care to face a Panther at all, never mind being in a Sherman!!!
Probably the best way to kill a Panther (or Tiger) was to get behind him and put one up the tailpipe and into the engine. Yet you could consume several Shermans before one managed to get around his backside!
This is basically how Michael Wittmann was killed. A Canadian Sherman of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers (Radley-Walters' unit) caught him unawares as he passed by and put a round through the left rear engine vent area. The Sherbrooke Fusiliers were hidden behind a stone wall 150 yards to Wittmann's left and he did not see them at all. Or just completely ignored them--much to his detriment.
I saw an interview here on TH-cam of a British tank vet who was at Villers Bocage. Wittmann's Tiger passed right in front of his Churchill (or maybe it was a Cromwell) and its 50mm cannon. They had pulled off the main road and into a walled off courtyard and the gunner got out to have a pee. Then Wittmann's Tiger came passing by right in front of them, within easy kill shot range. Alas, the fellow with the tiny bladder had been unable to wait any longer and the opportunity was lost.
I think if I was the tank commander and it had been such a hot time in the old town that day, I'd have ordered him to empty his bladder into an empty shell casing in order to keep him on the job!
Really, you are just lucky to survive a war in a tank. I cringe when I think how terrible those deaths were.
woah Jim dowdall?
Thank you very much, Tank Museum, for bringing this gentleman to my attention. It's so obvious how much he loves these sorts of vehicles, and his stories are fascinating.
No.4 - A Finnish Sturmi! Nice.
ant4812 German tank in Finland is still a german tank
LN, thank you, Captain Obvious.
i feel like the guys at the Tank Museum have a character for any kind of people that might get in....... its friggin awesome!!!
Oh no, u cut into a t-55 noooooo
Very interesting video with a great presenter.But the part with cutting Chieftain track and fitting it to T-55 is a bit strange for me.T-55 definitely has tracks with rubber.I used to be T-55 driver in the army and together with two types steel tracks , we used rubber covered tracks for military parades for example to reduse the damage on the road surface.And they were stock T-55 tracks.
:: Wonders to himself:: Can Germans do anything without over engineering?
Yeah, they can. There are a couple of examples of beautifully simple design, like the Jerry can.
They still do the same only better and better if you look carefully enough ... it's just a matter of time till they are in the lead - even at the supermarket - find something over engineered at an Albrecht Discounter you may better know as ALDI
Marek Dohojda the He 162 was terrible
Our bricks are pretty down to earth...well except for the new model with those carefully designed holes to allow for, erh......... ;-)
Well, there are many items that are both over- and underengineered, meaning they are overly complicated while still not working properly.
I was amazed when I saw my first 25pdr field gun. Sturdy, simplistic, looks almost cartoonish in its no-nonsense design, very precisely manufactured, rock solid, fugly as hell, but looks absolutely business. Has the charme of violence about it. And you can see, during the whole production procedure, not a single move was made that did not go directly into its functionality. That´s a beautiful gun.
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I love motorcycle and sidecars, and ever since I first clapped eyes on the Kettenkrad I thought it would be interesting to ride.....