About Me
Im Still riding my fame as Bruce Lee's cohort in Enter the Dragon, i am a cult film star and professional tennis player, With my funky Afro hairstyle, super cool attitude and superb karate skills, i was instantly identifiable, and one of the top martial arts film stars of the early 1970s. I was also International Middle Weight Karate Champion (1971)
After appearing in a minor film role, my second screen effort was as one of the invited guests to the deadly Han's Island in Enter the Dragon (1973). I quickly cropped up in several more martial arts influenced "blaxploitation" films including Three the Hard Way (1974), Golden Needles (1974) and Black Belt Jones (1974), with its interesting fight finale in a soap filled car wash! I then appeared in several other action films of the late seventies, however since 1980, i have only cropped up in two minor roles. A talented athlete, winning ranked titles both in tennis and karate, i was an integral part of the African-American & martial arts cinematic explosion of the 1970s.
In 1978 i went to Hong Kong to star in The Tattoo Connection, a rare and rocky marriage of East and West exploitation filmmaking. The film co-starred an impressive list of Hong Kong veterans featuring strong man Bolo Leung, the rugged Chan Sing, and king of kickers Dorian Tan. Taiwanese director Lee Tso Nam, who was responsible for some truly great classic kung fu titles like The Hot, The Cool and The Vicious and Eagle's Claw helmed the flick.
Dorian Tan shares equal screen time with me while playing a thug with a heart of gold, or at least having some reservations about his criminal ways. In reality, he makes a lousy bad guy and all of his better roles feature him as hero, mostly due to his noble, no-nonsense persona that carries over in every film. On the other hand, Chan Sing is made to play the bastard role in both looks and attitude, and he does just that as the killing and raping Boss Lok. He also sports a muscled physique relatively unique to Hong Kong stunt actors and rivaled only by Bolo Leung, who plays one of his hired thugs.The film opens with a nice exchange of fists and feet between Tan and an eye patch wearing Lee Hoi Sang.Tan and his fellow thugs steal the North Pole Star diamond from a gweilo carrier representing the company that owns it. But, the carrier turns out to be in cahoots with the robbers.
The bulk of the film features me as Lucas, an American agent attempting to track down the thieves in Hong Kong. I quickly run afoul of Boss Lok who attempts to have me killed on several occasions. But instead of a lot of martial action, i'm subjected to a lot of naked and gyrating female action. Exploitive in the truest sense.
If there is a payoff its in the final battle. I'm lured onto Chan Sing's boat where the bad guys have planned to kill me once and for all. The plan? Chan asks Dorian Tan to kill me for him. Having traded blows briefly earlier, me and Tan go at it in a fairly decent match. I look better under the direction of choreographer Bruce Liang than in most of my American made films. Tan is fairly dependent on his legwork to sell his screen performance, but he is about as good as anyone in that regard and likely better. More athlete than actor, i retired from the screen to pursue a successful career in professional tennis. i still gets offered roles in movies, but i don't dig the scripts. i wouldn't mind acting again, but i want the roles to be respectable. I'm also very proud of the movies i did, and dont want to spoil that image. I can still be considered one of the best 'ass kickers' in the history of cinema. I've made various appearances and done interviews, most recently at the Alamo Drafthouse and am currently studying Brazilian grappling and developing my own style of hybrid fighting.
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