The best fighter actors: photos and roles

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:46

How to play an action movie if you do not know a single combat technique and do not know how to hold a weapon in your hands? Teaching an ordinary actor martial arts is a long and costly business. That is why directors prefer to take real athletes into films with a lot of action scenes. The fighter actors listed in this article have always performed all their own stunts on set. Because from a young age they are practicing martial artists.

Talgat Nigmatullin

Fighting actors are rare in Russian cinema, and even more so in Soviet films. However, in the 80s, the Soviet Union had its own militant star - this is an actor of Uzbek origin Talgat Nigmatullin.

Talgat has a difficult fate: his father died in a mine when the boy was only two years old; the mother could not raise the family on her own, so the child was assigned to an orphanage. There Nigmatullin fell ill with rickets and for a long time could not fit into any group of peers, because he was weak and could not stand up for himself. Then the future actor made a promise to himself to turn his body into a perfect one.car. He started out in track and field and ended up earning a black belt in karate.

When the first Soviet action movie "Pirates of the 20th century" was filmed, Nigmatullin got one of the main roles in the film - the pirate and scoundrel Salekh. Then Talgat took part in the filming of such films as "The Right to Shot", "State Border", "Alone and Without Weapons". And in all these pictures, the actor demonstrated his excellent physical training and karate techniques. Unfortunately, the actor was killed in 1985, after being beaten to death in an apartment in Vilnius.

Fighting actors: photo and biography of Evgeny Sidikhin

Evgeny Sidikhin is a recognized star of Russian militants. Russian actors-fighters are a unique phenomenon. Perhaps this explains the fact that, from the 90s to the present day, inclusive, Sidikhin remains a very popular artist: his filmography includes more than 80 works.

Few people know, but Sidikhin became the champion of Leningrad in freestyle wrestling five times. Then the actor went through the Afghan war, serving in a tank battalion. He was in Afghanistan for three years and was transferred to the reserve in 1985. Only after that did his professional career in film and theater begin.

In the 90s, when Russian directors rushed to shoot action movies, Evgeny Sidikhin appeared in almost every one of them. He knew firsthand what war is, what weapons are and how to neutralize his enemy, so he looked very natural, confident and organic in the frame. The most famous films with the participation of the actor: Russiantransit”, “Beyond the last line”, “Wolf blood”, “Gangster Petersburg” and many others.

Stephen Seagal

Martial arts fighters have always been in demand in Hollywood. But, perhaps, Steven Seagal surpassed everyone in this regard.

Segal started karate at the age of seven. At fifteen, he began to comprehend the art of aikido, and at 17 he moved to Japan and a few years later received the first dan in martial arts. Steven became the only American who was allowed to open a dojo in Japan (that is, a martial arts school).

Meanwhile, Seagal continued to train, he was taught by the greatest masters, in particular, Seiseki Abe, who has 10 dan in aikido. Today Seagal is a 7th dan Aikido Aikikai and has his own martial arts schools in several countries.

Steven Seagal first appeared on the set in 1982, it happened in Japan. Then he was invited as a consultant on Japanese fencing. Since then, Seagal has not left the movie screens. To date, his filmography includes more than 50 works.

Chuck Norris

Fighting actors are incredibly in demand in movies. And the career of Chuck Norris is a direct proof of this.

Chuck served in the Air Force in South Korea. The young man, probably, could not then think that he would someday be in demand in the cinema. It was in South Korea that he became interested in judo and karate. By 1963, Chuck Norris already had a black belt in karate and opened his first martial arts school.

In 1972Norris accidentally gets into the film "Way of the Dragon" with the legendary Bruce Lee. Chuck was invited to shoot by one of the Hollywood actors who trained with him at school.

However, fighting techniques alone were not enough to become famous. At 34, Chuck went to study acting classes. After he received an appropriate education, Norris returned to films and has since played many good roles: for example, the Texas Ranger in the TV series Walker. By the way, this series was so popular that it ran from 1993 to 2001 inclusive.

Norris recently celebrated his 75th birthday. But that didn't stop him from starring in The Expendables 2 (2012) and The Finisher, which will be released in 2016

Dolph Lundgren

Fighting actors usually start training at the age of 13-15. Dolph Lundgren did the same when he was a teenager. In his homeland, Sweden, he studied, like an obsessed, such a style of karate as Kyokushin. Poor he alth and his father, who considered him a failure, pushed him to engage in martial arts. Dolph Lundgren fired up to prove the opposite and "rose" to the captain of the Swedish karate team.

When Lundgren left Sweden, he was already a 2nd Dan black belt in karate and also had a master's degree in chemical engineering. In New York, where the future movie star settled, Dolph was not lucky right away. He was not accepted into the modeling business, so he had to work as a bouncer in a club. But friends advised Lundgrentry your hand at movies.

The young man took photos, promo videos and gave them to one actor's agent. He soon invited him to audition for the film "Rocky 4". As a result, the role of the Soviet boxer went to the Swede.

Dolph Lundgren starred in a huge number of action films. He remains a sought-after actor to this day: the actor has three premieres scheduled for 2016 alone.

Jackie Chan

Fighting actors who perform their own stunts in movies are always risking their lives. Jackie Chan does not imagine his life without risk. Since 1962, the actor has appeared in more than a hundred films, and each of them contains complex and dangerous stunts that probably no actor in Hollywood will undertake to perform.

Jackie is a master of kung fu. He remarkably controls his body, is a specialist in the field of acrobatics. Naturally, he took his first steps in the cinema as a stuntman. But after gaining some film experience, Chan suddenly decides to start making films himself. As a result, a unique comedy genre is born in the cinema, in which the most complex tricks are widely demonstrated and at the same time there is sparkling humor. Chan to this day does not depart from this role. And, to be honest, no one except him will be able to act in such films, since each such film is a dance between life and death: Chan has had so many injuries that no insurance company in the world agrees to provide him with insurance. The most common fracture was the right ankle, which is why in recent Chan filmstrying to use more of his left foot while jumping.

Fighting Actors (America): Jean-Claude Van Damme

Despite the fact that Jean-Claude Van Damme is from Belgium, he is considered an American actor. In addition to the fact that Van Damme is a professional bodybuilder, in 1979 he became the European champion in kickboxing and karate (by the way, he has a black belt in his second).

Van Damme got his first role in Hollywood in 1986. If Lundgren at the dawn of his career played a Soviet boxer, then Van Damme played the Russian karate mafioso Ivan Krashinsky. Then there were the films "Bloodsport", "Kickboxer" and many others.

Jean-Claude is known for his perfect physical shape. In particular, he knows how to do the famous trick: real-time transverse splits on two synchronously moving trucks. In 2016, three new films with the participation of the actor will be released at once.

Mark Dacascos

Mark Dacascos is known to viewers for his roles in films such as "American Samurai", "Only the Strongest", "Crying Assassin", as well as filming in the television series "Hawaii 5.0" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation".

Dakaskos is a master in martial arts such as karate, kung fu. In Taiwan, he studied Chinese judo, later mastered various styles of Shaolin, Tai Chi, Chin Na and Shui Jao. That is why Dacascos can be called a universal fighter, which both American and Russian directors are happy to use in their films (Dakascos starred in two Russianmovies).

Bruce Lee

The best fighters-actors respect and honor the memory of such a famous martial artist as Bruce Lee. To this day, he is still a cult figure. This man is the idol of all those who dream of doing or are already doing martial arts.

It was not just a Chinese and American actor - Bruce was considered a reformer in the field of martial arts, a philosopher. He also produced films, directed and wrote scripts.

The famous actor died unexpectedly for everyone: he developed cerebral edema for unknown reasons, death came instantly. The fighter was only 32 years old. His last film, in which he never finished his role, was filmed for five years with the help of stuntmen and understudies.