Bey Logan was born in Stamford, England and raised in nearby Peterborough. He was educated at Uppingham Public School in Rutland and soon demonstrated a skill for writing, a love of cinema and a passion for the eastern way of life.
Like many of his generation, Logan was introduced to Hong Kong cinema through the films of Bruce Lee. Bey would eventually combine his love of Martial Arts, Bruce Lee, movies, writing and Hong Kong in general as a writer for the now defunct "Kung Fu Monthly" as well as Toby Russell's & Rick Bakers "Eastern Hero's magazine" and as editor for the long
… More running "Combat" magazine. He first visited Hong Kong at age 19 and having been lucky enough to visit the set of the Yuen Biao film, Prodigal Son soon landed at interview with rising star Jackie Chan. It was this interview, which started his publishing career. Having sent of a letter to Kung Fu monthly detailing his trip, he soon found that it had been published as an article and that the editor called him for more. Bey has since visited the sets of various Martial Arts classics including Project A Part II, Operation Condor: The Armour of God II and City Hunter.
Through his company "Beymark International" he has been instrumental in bringing Hong Kong movie stars to Britain to meet their fans. He currently runs another company, Shankara. Bey has also developed his own Martial Arts training going on to train at Jeet Kune Do seminars with Lee's students Ted Wong and Dan Inosanto. He also studies Hung Gar and Tai Chi Chuan.
In 1993, he founded and became editor of Impact, a magazine aimed squarely at audiences interested in action movies and movie making. Though he eventually handed the editorial reins over to John Mosby, the magazine still exists today and has increased its distributed to various areas of the world. Impact celebrated its 150th issue in 2004.
In 1995 he finished his own book, "Hong Kong Action Cinema" and some of his "Eastern Heros" magazine articles were collected, amongst others in Russell's and Bakers "The Essential Guide to the Best of Eastern Hero's".
1995 was another benchmark in Bey's life as he left his home in England and relocated to Hong Kong. Once there he quickly took up a position at "Media Asia", a Hong Kong production studio that held the distribution rights to a large part of Golden Harvest's back catalogue of films including Bruce Lees movies and most of Jackie Chan's earlier work. While working in the depths of Golden Harvests film vault, Bey re-discovered the "lost" footage that Bruce Lee had filmed for Game of Death. Running to roughly 60 minutes in length, the print included Bruce's Nunchucku fight with Dan Inosanto as well as other largely unseen fight footage. It also provides an insight into the ideology that Lee wanted to incorporate into the movie. Most of the footage can be seen on Hong Kong Legends Region 2, 2 disc platinum edition DVD release of Game of Death and on John Little's Bruce Lee documentary, Bruce Lee: A Warriors Journey.
Since being in Hong Kong, Bey has tried his hand at acting, playing Petrov, the Russian Boxer in a Hong Kong TV remake of Fist of Fury and appearing in Circus Kids in another villainous role opposite screen legends Yuen Biao and Donnie Yen. He has worked behind the scenes on many productions, both East and West such as Jackie Chan: My Story and Jackie Chan: My Stunts. He co-wrote the Chan produced Gen-Y-Cops and has recently finished working on Chan's "The Medallion" on which he worked since its genesis as "Highbinders". He also wrote the Donnie Yen movie, Ballistic Kiss and White Tiger for UK Martial Arts movie star Gary Daniels.
Considered by many to be a foremost expert on Hong Kong cinema, Bey has provided feature length commentary for many Hong Kong Legends (Region 2) DVD releases and is often contacted by organisations such as the BBC and CNN to talk about the life of Bruce Lee. In 2003 he provided 3-5 minute introductions to most of the films shown as part of the satellite TV station CNX Kung Fu season. He also presented a short featurette for them entitled "Bruce Lees Hong Kong".
Bey currently resides in Hong Kong. He also worked for the Emperor Multimedia Group, a company he joined in 2000 and wrote "The Medallion" for. Upon finishing his duties on The Twins Effect he left EMG to form Shankara productions with actress Maggie Q. The company will focus on producing documentary and supplementary material.
Since living in Hong Kong, Bey has also lectured at the Asia Society and served on the jury at the Hawaii International Film Festival. He studies Tibetan Buddhism and has also tried his hand at several different Martial Arts styles. Bey married in 1996 and has three children.
