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Killpoint
''Killpoint'' is a 1984 American action film directed by Frank Harris that stars Richard Roundtree, Cameron Mitchell, Leo Fong Leo Fong (; 23 November 1928 – 18 February 2022) was a Chinese-American martial artist, actor, boxer, and Methodist minister who had been making films, acting, and directing since the early 1970s. Fong was still acting in action films right ..., Stack Pierce, Hope Holiday, and Diane Stevenett. Synposis A psychopathic illegal arms dealer, Joe Marks (Mitchell), and his gang headed by Nighthawk (Pierce), rob a National Guard armory with the intent of selling arms to gangs and criminals in Los Angeles. Lt. James Long (Fong), and FBI agent Bill Bryant (Roundtree), go after Marks. Background The music for the film was provided by Herman Jeffreys and Darryl Stevenett. Stevenett performed four songs for the film which were I'm Getting Old", "Truck Drivin' Man", "Cheatin' On Yer Daddy", and "Good Men Die Young". Ramona Gibbons sang the Herman Jeffreys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Harris (director)
Frank Harris (July 18, 1943 – April 27, 2020) was an American film director, producer, and cinematographer who has been working in films since the late 1970s. His work as a director includes ''Killpoint'' in 1984, '' Low Blow'' and '' The Patriot'' in 1986, ''If We Knew Then'' in 1987 and ''Lockdown'' in 1990. He originally worked as a television reporter. Background His wife Canadian born Diane Stevenett (married 1980), has also appeared in a number of his films. Before entering the film industry, Harris worked as a reporter for a California television station. Career He began his career around 1976 or 1978 as a cinematographer with ''Enforcer from Death Row'' aka ''Ninja Assassins'', a film that featured Leo Fong, Darnell Garcia, John Hammond, Cameron Mitchell, Ann Farber and Booker T. Anderson. He then applied his cinematography skills to the film ''Goldrunner'', a film about a kidnapped child, which starred Richard Losee and Kristin Kelly. Harris also had an acting role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Stevenett
Diane Stevenett (born June 16, 1954) is a Canadian artist, singer, actress and producer. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, she was the eldest of nine children and grew up Innisfail, Alberta, a farming community. She moved to California; in 1980 she married movie director Frank Harris. She has worked in film production in the action film genre. Background As an actress she has had roles in '' Mike Hammer'', and in '' Low Blow'' with Leo Fong and Cameron Mitchell. As a singer she has performed with the Santa Barbara Revels over the years. Her brother Daryl Stevenett is a composer and musician. Film career She has acted in a number of films in the 1980s. She is also the sister of composer and musician Daryl Stevenett. She appeared in some of Leo Fong's films in the 1980s. She served as Producer, Production Manager and Assistant Director to Frank Harris in ''Killpoint'', a film that Starred Leo Fong, Cameron Mitchell, Richard Rountree, Hope Holiday and Stack Pierce. In 1986, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stack Pierce
Robert Stack Pierce (June 15, 1933 – March 1, 2016) was a Hollywood actor who was previously a boxer and professional baseball player.Speakers InternationaStack Pierce His acting career began in the early 1970s with television roles in the series ''Arnie'', ''Room 222'', ''Mannix'', ''Mission Impossible'' and later as Jake, the alien commander in the 1980s science fiction series '' V''. His film roles include ''Night Call Nurses'', ''Hammer'', '' Cool Breeze'', '' Low Blow'' and ''Weekend at Bernie's II''. Background Pierce was state boxing champion. Later he played professional baseball, beginning with the Cleveland Indians organization and later the Milwaukee Braves organization. Having left high school, he joined up to the army where he was an Airborne Engineer. While in the army he played baseball in the Special Services. He came up on the radar of the Cleveland Indians and he was signed to a Major League contract. Not long after the Milwaukee Braves bought his cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lew
James Jene Fae Lew (born September 6, 1952) is an American actor and martial artist. He has made 80 on-screen film and television appearances and 46 more as a stunt coordinator or stunt double. He has done choreography for movies like ''Get Smart'', '' Killers'' and the cult classic ''Big Trouble In Little China'', as well as television shows such as ''National Geographic's Fight Science'', '' The Crow: Stairway to Heaven'', and ''Entourage''. He does Shaolin Kung-Fu, Tae Kwon Do, Jeet Kune Do, Hapkido, and Boxing. He also trained Brad Pitt with sword fighting for the movie ''Troy''. Career An early role for Lew was as a guard in the John Cassavetes 1976 film, ''The Killing of a Chinese Bookie''. Lew had a role in the Frank Harris directed action film ''Killpoint'', which starred Leo Fong, Richard Roundtree, Cameron Mitchell and Stack Pierce. In 2017, he acted in the Mark Steven Grove directed sci-fi film '' Star Raiders: The Adventures of Saber Raine'', which also starred Caspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Fong
Leo Fong (; 23 November 1928 – 18 February 2022) was a Chinese-American martial artist, actor, Boxer (boxing), boxer, and Methodism, Methodist minister (Protestantism), minister who had been making films, acting, and directing since the early 1970s. Fong was still acting in action films right up until his early 90s. Background Fong was born on 23 November 1928 in Xinhui county (present Xinhui district of the city of Jiangmen), located in the province of Guangzhou, China. Fong soon relocated to Seattle with his parents and siblings. They were detained for a time, as was common with immigrants from Asia. Upon being released in Seattle, the family traveled to Chicago, where Fong's maternal uncle owned a restaurant in which his father had been guaranteed work. Working at the restaurant, Fong's father saved enough money to purchase a small grocery store in Widener, Arkansas, a small agricultural community. Fong was the victim of racism, racial taunts at school, which often led to fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope Holiday
Hope Holiday (born Hope Jane Zee) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Mrs. Margie MacDougall, Jack Lemmon's partner in self-pity on Christmas Eve night, in the Billy Wilder film ''The Apartment'' (1960). Early years Holiday was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Manhattan. Her father, a burlesque entertainer who was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, changed his name from Allen Zaslawsky to Allen Zee before his daughters were born. She attended Public School 117 in Jamaica, Queens, and then went to Forest Hills High School. She dropped out of high school and sang at the Copacabana nightclub. Her father was also described by Ed Sullivan as a "Capitol Theater exec." Her mother, Doris, worked in the production department at radio station WHN in New York City. Her father at one time was night manager of WHN. She has an older sister, Judy, whose stage name was Judy Sinclair. Name change A column in the June 30, 1954, issue of the '' Brook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crown International Pictures
Crown International Pictures (CIP) was an independent film studio and distribution company formed in 1959 by Newton P. Jacobs. History Jacobs was a branch head of RKO Pictures until 1947, when he formed Favorite Films, an organization which released films acquired from the studios which had originally produced them, long after their first run release. CIP became one of the first franchise distributors for American International Pictures (AIP) product. Like AIP, Crown International is primarily known for low-budget genre films, including; grindhouse cinema, biker films, exploitation films, and B-movie drive-in fare. Crown International began releasing both low-budget films as ''Bloodlust!'' and ''The Seventh Commandment'', by American producers, as well as foreign films such as ''First Spaceship on Venus'' and ''Varan the Unbelievable'' (released as a double feature in 1962) which Crown was able to acquire inexpensively, due to the US dollar's strength. Crown began producing its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942) is an American actor. Roundtree is noted as being "the first black action hero" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film '' Shaft'', and its four sequels, released between 1972 and 2019. For his performance in the original film, Roundtree was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1972. Early life and education Born July 9, 1942, in New Rochelle, New York, to John and Kathryn Roundtree, Roundtree attended New Rochelle High School; graduating in 1961. During high school, Roundtree played for the school's undefeated and nationally ranked football team. After high school, Roundtree attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. Roundtree dropped out of college in 1963 to begin his career. Career Roundtree began his professional career around 1963. Roundtree began modeling in the Ebony Fashion Fair after being scouted by Eunice W. Johnson. After his modeling success wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RedLetterMedia
Red Letter Media, LLC is an American film and video production company operated by independent filmmakers Mike Stoklasa (formerly of GMP Pictures) and Jay Bauman (formerly of Blanc Screen Cinema). It was formed by Stoklasa in 2004 while he was living in Scottsdale, Arizona, but is currently based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It attracted significant attention in 2009 through Stoklasa's 70-minute video review of the 1999 film ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace''. The review was posted in seven parts on YouTube, and was presented by his character "Harry S. Plinkett" (often shortened to "Mr. Plinkett"). While Stoklasa had published other video reviews of several ''Star Trek'' films before that, his ''Phantom Menace'' and subsequent ''Star Wars'' prequel reviews were praised for both content and presentation. Numerous other series have been produced by Red Letter Media, including several movie review-based web series (''Half in the Bag'', ''Best of the Worst'', and ''re:View' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Action Films
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh personal computer in the United States. February * February 3 ** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth. ** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission. * February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk. * February 8– 19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The year's highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada was ''Beverly Hills Cop''. ''Ghostbusters'' overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. It was the first time in five years that the top-grossing film did not involve George Lucas or Steven Spielberg although Spielberg directed and Lucas executive produced/co-wrote the third placed '' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' (the highest-grossing film worldwide that year); Spielberg also executive produced the fourth placed ''Gremlins''. U.S. box office grosses reached $4 billion for the first time and it was the first year that two films had returned over $100 million to their distributors with both ''Ghostbusters'' and ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' achieving this. ''Beverly Hills Cop'' made it three for films released i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branscombe Richmond
Branscombe Richmond is an American character actor and stuntman. He is known for his starring role of Bobby Sixkiller on the American syndicated drama series, ''Renegade'' (1992–1997), and for his starring roles on the television series, ''Hawaiian Heat'' (1984) and '' Heart of the City'' (1986–1987). Richmond has appeared in numerous films, and has guest starred on numerous television series. Life and career He appeared as a policeman named Harker in the pilot and all 10 episodes of ''Hawaiian Heat'' in the fall of 1984 on ABC. The show quickly failed pitted against the ratings juggernaut ''Dallas''. In the fall of 1986, he then appeared as another cop, Sergeant Luke Halui, in all 13 episodes of '' Heart of the City''. It was the second lowest rated show that season, due to having to do battle with NBC's Top 20 hits ''The Golden Girls'' and ''Amen'', as well as losing out to CBS's show ''The New Mike Hammer''. It ranked only 78th out of 79 shows and lasted only 13 episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
