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Dolph Lundgren
Hans "Dolph" Lundgren (, ; born 3 November 1957) is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. Lundgren made his acting debut in 1985 with a cameo in the List of James Bond films, James Bond film ''A View to a Kill''. Also that year, he had his breakthrough in Sylvester Stallone's ''Rocky IV'', in which he played the lead villain as the imposing Soviet Union, Soviet boxer Ivan Drago. Lundgren went on to play lead roles in over 80 action-oriented films including ''Masters of the Universe (1987 film), Masters of the Universe'' (1987), ''Red Scorpion'' (1988), ''The Punisher (1989 film), The Punisher'' (1989), ''I Come in Peace'' (1990), ''Showdown in Little Tokyo'' (1991), ''Joshua Tree (1993 film), Joshua Tree'' (1993), ''Men of War (film), Men of War'' (1994), ''Silent Trigger'' (1996), and ''Blackjack (1998 film), Blackjack'' (1998). He continued playing villainous roles, most notably as Sergeant Andrew Scott in three ''Universal Soldier (film series), Universal Soldier'' ...
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Spånga
Spånga is a community and parish in the borough of Spånga-Tensta in Stockholm County, Sweden. Background Spånga was an independent municipality until January 1, 1949, when most of it was merged with the City of Stockholm, with smaller portions of the area merging with Solna, Sundbyberg, and Sollentuna municipalities. Spånga was originally the name of a village centered on Spånga Church (''Spånga kyrka''), which dates to the 12th century. Spånga is home to the largest TV studio in Sweden run by NEP Group which has 3 studio in total there, shows including Idol 2020 have been filmed there. Due to COVID-19 Melodifestivalen considered using the studios for 2021 to film all 6 editions instead of the nationwide tour. School Spånga high school was built in 1928 and it is near Spånga station and Spånga market. As of 2020 the school had about 600 pupils. Spånga elementary school has about 470 pupils today and there are grades 7 through 9. Spånga elementary sc ...
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Red Scorpion
''Red Scorpion'' is a 1988 American action film starring Dolph Lundgren and directed by Joseph Zito. Lundgren appears as a Soviet special forces ("Spetsnaz") operative sent to assassinate an anti-communist rebel leader in Africa, only to side with the rebels. It was produced by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and controversially filmed in South West Africa with the support of the apartheid-era South African government. The film was released in the United States on April 21, 1989. It is the first installment in the ''Red Scorpion'' film series. Plot Lieutenant Nikolai Petrovitch Rachenko, a Soviet Spetsnaz operative from Ukraine, is sent to an African country in which Soviet and Cuban forces are helping the government fight an anti-communist rebel movement. He is tasked with the mission to assassinate the rebel leader. Rachenko infiltrates the rebel movement and to get within striking distance of his target, he stirs up trouble in the local bar and gets arrested for disorderly conduct ...
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Missionary Man (film)
''Missionary Man'' is a 2007 American action film co-written, directed by and starring Dolph Lundgren. Plot A stranger named Ryder (Dolph Lundgren) comes into a small Texas town for the funeral of his good friend J.J., a local Native American carpenter. Ryder spends his time in town reading the Bible while drinking straight tequila. Ryder talks to J.J.'s sister Nancy ( Kateri Walker) who says that J.J. drowned in a river, but J.J.'s teenage son Junior ( John D. Montoya) does not believe that. Local businessman John Reno ( Matthew Tompkins) introduces himself to Ryder and tells Murphy ( Charles Solomon Jr.), one of his employees, to keep an eye on Ryder. Sheriff Acoma ( James Chalke), who seems to be alcoholic, tells Ryder that he should leave town. Ryder beats up a group of Reno's thugs who are beating a local drug user named Billy (Jonny Cruz). White Deer (August Schellenberg), the father of Nancy and J.J., talks to Nancy's 15-year-old daughter Kiowa (Chelsea Ricketts), who i ...
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The Mechanik
''The Mechanik'' (released under the alternative title known as ''The Russian Specialist'') is a 2005 German-American vigilante action film starring and directed by Dolph Lundgren, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Bryan Edward Hill. The film co-stars Ben Cross, Ivan Petrushinov, Olivia Lee, and Raicho Vasilev. Most of the film was shot in Bulgaria and there are many Bulgarian actors in the cast as well. Plot Retired Spetsnaz soldier Nikolai "Nick" Cherenko is a mechanic in the small Russian village of Gorelovo. His wife, Alina and son, Vanya are killed by Russian mob boss Aleksandr "Sasha" Popov when he and his gang start a shootout after a bad drug deal. Nick arms himself and takes his revenge one night, killing five of Popov's men. Finally he shoots Popov in the face, leaving him for dead. Seven years later, Nick works as a mechanic in Los Angeles. Wealthy widow Mary Abramoff tracks him down and pleads with him to go to Russia and retrieve her daughter Julia, who has ...
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The Defender (2004 Film)
''The Defender'' is a 2004 British-German action film starring and directed by Dolph Lundgren in his directorial debut. The film also co-stars Jerry Springer, Shakara Ledard, Thomas Lockyer and Caroline Lee Johnson. The film was released on direct-to-video in the United States on October 18, 2005. Dolph Lundgren plays Lance Rockford, who must set aside his values and patriotism to protect the life of the world's greatest terrorist so that he does not become a martyr for his cause. Plot The global war on terror rages on. The United States will not give an inch against terrorists, especially Mohamed Jamar, who is considered to be the worst of them all. Jamar has been missing for months, but his network continues its functions. The President stands firm before the world, but behind the scenes, his teams are working to find the final solution. Jamar represents a paradox: he can never be killed, because if he was found dead, he would become an instant martyr. If caught he must be ...
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Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film, television series, short or special to the public immediately on home video formats rather than an initial theatrical release or television premiere. This distribution strategy was prevalent before streaming platforms came to dominate the TV and movie distribution markets. Because sequels or prequels of larger-budget films may be released direct-to-video, review references to direct-to-video releases are often pejorative. Direct-to-video release has also become profitable for independent filmmakers and smaller companies. Some direct-to-video genre films (with a high-profile star) can generate well in excess of $50 million revenue worldwide. Reasons for releasing direct to video A production studio may decide not to generally release a TV show or film for several possible reasons: a low budget, a lack of support from a TV network, negative reviews, its controversial nature, that it may appeal to a small ...
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Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (, ; born 18 October 1960), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme (, ), is a Belgian martial artist and actor. Born and raised in Brussels, his father enrolled him in a Shotokan karate school at the age of ten, which led Van Damme to hold the rank of 2nd- dan black belt in karate, and compete in several karate and kickboxing competitions. As a teenager, he won the middleweight championship of the European Professional Karate Association in 1979 and the Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title in 1978. With the desire of becoming an actor in Hollywood, he moved to the United States in 1982, where he worked on several films, until he got his break as the lead in the martial arts film '' Bloodsport'' (1988). He became a popular action film star and followed up with commercially successful films such as ''Cyborg'', ''Kickboxer'' (both 1989), '' Lionheart'', '' Death Warrant'' (both 1990), '' Double Impact'' (1991), '' Universal Soldier' ...
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Universal Soldier (film Series)
''Universal Soldier'' is a series of military science fiction action films. The franchise began in 1992 with '' Universal Soldier'' and as of 2012 comprises six entries. The films centered on the character of Luc Deveraux (played first by Jean-Claude Van Damme and then by Matt Battaglia) until '' Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning'', which focuses on a new protagonist named John (played by Scott Adkins). Film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz stated that the ''Universal Soldier'' franchise "is a rare series that takes more creative risks as it goes along". Films ''Universal Soldier'' (1992) Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch, and Dean Devlin, it stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, and Ally Walker. In the first installment of the franchise, American soldier Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) finds that his superior officer, Andrew Scott (Lundgren), has turned violently deranged, and the two fight to the death during t ...
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Blackjack (1998 Film)
''Blackjack'' (also known as ''John Woo's Blackjack'') is a 1998 Canadian-American made-for-television action film and an unsuccessful pilot directed by John Woo and starring Dolph Lundgren as a leukophobic former United States Marshal turned bodyguard who hunts down an assassin. Plot After crime boss Kamenev (Géza Kovács) threatens his daughter Casey (Padraigin Murphy), casino owner Bobby Stern (Peter Keleghan) calls in his friend, retired U.S. Marshal Jack Devlin (Dolph Lundgren), to protect her. Devlin fends off a squadron of Kamenev's henchmen sent to abduct Casey from the Stern mansion, but is temporarily blinded by a flashbang grenade in the process; he also gets shot in the leg. While Jack and Casey survive, Devlin develops a debilitating phobia of the color white ( leukophobia) due to the traumatic experience of being blinded while fighting for his life (although Casey acted as his eyes). Some time later, back home in New York City with his roommate/sidekick Thomas (S ...
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Silent Trigger
''Silent Trigger'' is a 1996 American action thriller film directed by Russell Mulcahy starring Dolph Lundgren and Gina Bellman about a sniper and his female spotter. Lundgren plays Waxman, a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin sent on a mission by a secretive "Agency", to assassinate a target from an abandoned skyscraper in construction. Memories and moral dilemmas resurface when a former spotter from a failed assignment shows up. Plot The movie takes place in and around an unfinished city skyscraper, the "Algonquin", where a sniper/spotter team set up a firing platform on a top floor. The two arrive independently of each other, two of the Agency's assassins. As they meet, they recognize each other, as they have been on a mission together before. This mission is portrayed in a series of flashbacks. In the first flashback, sniper and spotter were supposed to assassinate a female politician. Sniper hesitates when the politician lifts a ...
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Men Of War (film)
''Men of War'' is a 1994 action film directed by Perry Lang, written by John Sayles, and revised by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris. It stars Dolph Lundgren as Nick Gunar, a former Special Ops soldier who leads a group of mercenaries to a treasure island in the South China Sea. Plot Nick Gunar, an ex-soldier, is down and out in Chicago in a typically cold winter. When two men offer him a job on a tropical island, he reluctantly agrees and gathers together a group of soldier friends also down on their luck. They arrive in the Far East and come up against the evil Keefer, who was with Nick in Angola. He now owns the local police force and shows Nick and the others who is boss. Afterwards, Nick and his crew go to the island, which they find is occupied by peaceful natives—natives who the mercenaries are supposed to convince to abandon the island. Nick respects them, but there is friction caused by a few mercenaries who want to kill natives to persuade them to leave, or, alternativel ...
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Joshua Tree (1993 Film)
''Joshua Tree'' (released under the alternative title ''Army of One'') is a 1993 American action film directed by Vic Armstrong, written by Steven Pressfield and starring Dolph Lundgren, Kristian Alfonso, and George Segal. Much of the film was filmed in Los Angeles, Lone Pine, Agua Dulce, and Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. The climax was shot in the Cottonwood Canyon region of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Plot Wellman Anthony Santee is a former race car driver who has turned to a life of crime since the death of his mother. Santee and his friend Eddie Turner bend the law for profit by hauling exotic stolen cars. Santee's latest assignment is to transport such goods across the desert, but a highway patrol officer pulls him over. The officer notices that Turner carries a gun hidden behind his back and prepares to arrest him, when suddenly a pair of cops named Frank Severance and Jack "Rudy" Rudisill arrive. After a brief gun battle, Eddie and the officer a ...
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