Bruce Baron

Bruce Baron (November 15, 1949 – April 13, 2013) was an American movie actor.

Bruce Baron
Born(1949-11-15)November 15, 1949
New York City, U.S.
DiedApril 13, 2013(2013-04-13) (aged 63)
Hawaii, U.S.
Alma materCornell University (1971)
OccupationFilm actor

Born in New York City, he graduated from Cornell University (B.A. 1971). He starred in several Asian movies, playing over a dozen lead roles in Hong Kong and Manila productions, including among others, in Godfrey Ho's "Ninja" features and Filipino low-budget action films for producer K.Y. Lim, such as Fireback, directed by Teddy Page.

Baron also appeared as the villain in Ruggero Deodato's sci-fi actioner The Atlantis Interceptors (1983), in Code Name: Wild Geese (1984), directed by Antonio Margheriti starring Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine and Klaus Kinski, and in Overdose (1987), by French softcore/exploitation director Jean-Marie Pallardy. Including Cantonese films, altogether he played in over 40 movies, as well as appearing in over 100 television commercials filmed in Asia for local, regional and international distribution, including a bit part in an episode of Dallas shot in Hong Kong. His last film was Guy Lee Thys' Belgian docudrama "Cruel Horizon" 1989 in which he played the lead role.

Bruce Baron died from cancer[1] in April 2013.

Filmography (selective)

Feature films
  • Don't Play with Fire .... Bruce - 1980
  • Chak wong ji wong - 1982
  • Dragon Force ... Jack Sargeant - 1982
  • Fireback ... Duffy Colins
  • I predatori di Atlantide ... Crystal Skull - 1983
  • Mad Dog II - 1983
  • Hunter's Crossing ... Al - 1983
  • Code Name: Wild Geese ... Kowalski - 1984
  • Heroes for Hire ... McPearson ... 1984
  • Heated Vengeance ... Jacobs - 1985

Television
  • Dallas
    Episode: Shattered Dreams - 1985
gollark: It broke but is now back-ish!
gollark: What is the use-case?
gollark: Wait, no, bad encryption *combined* with a bad hashing-like thing.
gollark: Right, so it's kind of like a bad version of hashing?
gollark: I mean, I don't have wireless networking yet, and it's a laptop, but that's okay, I don't need to actually productively *use* it.

References
  1. Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013. 2014-05-16. ISBN 9780786476657.
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