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Mel Novak est un Acteur et Associate Producer Américain né le 16 juin 1950 à Pittsburgh (Etats-Unis)
Mel Novak is an American award winning character actor who is best known for villainous roles in Black Belt Jones,Bruce Lees Game of Death and Chuck Norris An Eye for An Eye. He is also known for doing all of his own stunts and fighting scenes.
Born in Pittsburgh, Novak played professional baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates before he began acting. His athletic career was cut short by a massive rotator cuff injury. Novak made his film debut in 1974, appearing in two blaxploitation films, Truck Turner and Black Belt Jones, the former starring Isaac Hayes, the latter Jim Kelly. Subsequent parts in The Ultimate Warrior (1975) starring Yul Brynner, Cat in the Cage (1978), starring Sybil Danning, and others followed. One of his more high-profile parts from the 70's was as the hitman Stick in Game of Death (1978), directed by Robert Clouse. Novak also had roles in two Chuck Norris films, A Force of One (1979) and An Eye for an Eye (1981).
Since the turn of the 80's, Novak been acting mostly in independent features, such as in Lovely But Deadly (1981) for director/producer David Sheldon, starring B-movie heroine Lucinda Dooling. In the 90's, he appeared in two films for director Garry Marshall, Exit to Eden (1994), based on the novel by Anne Rice, and Dear God (1996). In 2005, he appeared in the action/horror film Vampire Assassin, also featuring Gerald Okamura, with whom Novak has acted in several films, and Rudy Ray Moore.And in 2008 Novak was inducted in the Martial Arts Hall of Fame in London.
Personal life
Novak is also an ordained minister and known for doing celebrity funerals and memorials for the likes of Chuck Connors son Jeffrey Alan Connors and Tim Burtons father Bill Burton. Having worked in skid row and prison ministry for over twenty years. He also has two daughters, Nikol and Lea, and 3 grandchildren from daughter Lea. His daughter Nikol is currently single.
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Mel Novak is an American award winning character actor who is best known for villainous roles in Black Belt Jones,Bruce Lees Game of Death and Chuck Norris An Eye for An Eye. He is also known for doing all of his own stunts and fighting scenes.
Biographie
CareerBorn in Pittsburgh, Novak played professional baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates before he began acting. His athletic career was cut short by a massive rotator cuff injury. Novak made his film debut in 1974, appearing in two blaxploitation films, Truck Turner and Black Belt Jones, the former starring Isaac Hayes, the latter Jim Kelly. Subsequent parts in The Ultimate Warrior (1975) starring Yul Brynner, Cat in the Cage (1978), starring Sybil Danning, and others followed. One of his more high-profile parts from the 70's was as the hitman Stick in Game of Death (1978), directed by Robert Clouse. Novak also had roles in two Chuck Norris films, A Force of One (1979) and An Eye for an Eye (1981).
Since the turn of the 80's, Novak been acting mostly in independent features, such as in Lovely But Deadly (1981) for director/producer David Sheldon, starring B-movie heroine Lucinda Dooling. In the 90's, he appeared in two films for director Garry Marshall, Exit to Eden (1994), based on the novel by Anne Rice, and Dear God (1996). In 2005, he appeared in the action/horror film Vampire Assassin, also featuring Gerald Okamura, with whom Novak has acted in several films, and Rudy Ray Moore.And in 2008 Novak was inducted in the Martial Arts Hall of Fame in London.
Personal life
Novak is also an ordained minister and known for doing celebrity funerals and memorials for the likes of Chuck Connors son Jeffrey Alan Connors and Tim Burtons father Bill Burton. Having worked in skid row and prison ministry for over twenty years. He also has two daughters, Nikol and Lea, and 3 grandchildren from daughter Lea. His daughter Nikol is currently single.
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Filmographie de Mel Novak (21 films)
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, 1h35Réalisé par Gregory Hatanaka
Genres Thriller, Comédie, Action, Policier
Acteurs Matt Hannon, Bai Ling, Kayden Kross, Tommy Wiseau, Kristine DeBell, Laurene Landon
Rôle Cutter
Note36%
Big Guns (2006)
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Sport
Acteurs Barry Primus, Mel Novak
Rôle Larry Armstrong
Note67%
Vampire Assassin (2005)
, 1h30Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Thriller, Action, Horreur
Thèmes Vampire
Acteurs Mel Novak, Gerald Okamura, Rudy Ray Moore
Rôle Gustoff Slovak
Note16%
When protagonist Derek Washington (Hall) was just a child, he witnessed his father's murder. Because of this, he became very afraid of blood. However, when a sting operation to find a counterfeiter named Gustoff Slovak (Mel Novak) goes wrong, Derek is forced to face his fear: blood. The operation backfires, resulting in a massacre that leaves Derek's team wiped out. Derek reaches the shocking conclusion that Slovak is actually a vampire, and joins forces with a weapons expert named Master Kao (Gerald Okamura). Kao is the last in a long line of vampire hunters, and agrees to train Derek in this ancient art of vampire slaying. However, in order to defeat Slovak, Derek must become a vampire assassin.
Power Elite (2001)
, 1h34Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action
Acteurs Olivier Gruner, Mel Novak, Rebecca Ferratti, Sean Michaels
Rôle President Jonathan Caine
Note40%
Pocket Ninjas (1997)
, 1h30Réalisé par Donald G. Jackson
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Art martial, Comédie, Action, Wuxiapian
Thèmes Sport, Arts martiaux, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Robert Z'Dar, Mel Novak, Brad Bufanda, Scott Shaw
Rôle Mr. Kaufman
Note14%
Future War (1997)
, 1h30Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Science-fiction, Action
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Dinosaure, La musique, La préhistoire, Voyage dans le temps, Animaux préhistoriques, Musique
Acteurs Daniel Bernhardt, Robert Z'Dar, Mel Novak, Forrest J Ackerman, David Hasselhoff, Tom Richards
Rôle Otis - SWAT Team
Note16%
Une race de cyborgs maîtrisant le voyage dans le temps a réduit l'humanité à l'esclavage : ils vont chercher des esclaves parmi les humains du futur et des dinosaures dans le passé pour servir de gardes. Un de ces humains réduits à l'esclavage arrive à leur échapper et se retrouve dans le Los Angeles contemporain, où il sera poursuivi à la fois par les cyborgs, les dinosaures et la police…
Escroc malgré lui (1996)
, 1h52Réalisé par Garry Marshall
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Escroquerie
Acteurs Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Maria Pitillo, Tim Conway, Héctor Elizondo, Jon Seda
Rôle Sidewalk Minister
Note54%
À la suite d'une escroquerie manquée, Tom Turner se retrouve devant un juge : ce dernier remarque que Tom n'a jamais eu un véritable travail jusque-là, lui propose soit de trouver un travail et de le garder pendant un an, ou la prison. Il choisit de travailler et par une connaissance obtient un poste dans le secteur du courrier non distribué à répartir suivant l'objet (déchiré, sans adresse, non timbré, etc.). Parmi cela un bac des lettres destinées à Dieu. À la suite d'un quiproquo il va réaliser une bonne action envers une personne qui a écrit une lettre à Dieu, chamboulant sa vie et l'intérêt de ses collègues pour leur travail.
Direct Hit (1994)
, 1h29Réalisé par Joseph Merhi
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Thriller, Action, Aventure
Acteurs William Forsythe, Jo Champa, Richard Norton, John Aprea, George Segal, Juliet Landau
Rôle Kovar
Note43%
After informing his CIA handlers that his next hit will be his last, John Hatch (Forsythe) discovers that his target isn't a criminal at all. Refusing to take the woman out, Hatch instead takes it upon himself to protect her and expose the web of corruption at work.
Exit to Eden (1994)
, 1h53Réalisé par Garry Marshall
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Thriller, Comédie, Policier, Romance
Thèmes Sexualité, Erotique, BDSM
Acteurs Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Rosie O'Donnell, Dan Aykroyd, Donna Dixon, Héctor Elizondo
Rôle Walker's Henchman
Note42%
Elliot Slater, un jeune photographe, a pris par hasard la photo d'un trafiquant de diamants dont personne ne connait le visage. Il part peu après en vacances sur l'île du Club Eden, paradis sexuel où les touristes sont conviés à assouvir tous leurs fantasmes... Pour récupérer cette photo compromettante, le truand accompagné de sa superbe et cruelle complice Nina embarque lui aussi sur cette île. Enfin, pourchassant le photographe et les escrocs, deux détectives de Los Angeles s'infiltrent incognito au Club Eden et découvrent un monde qu'ils n'avaient même pas imaginé dans leurs rêves les plus fous...
Force: Five (1981)
, 1h36Réalisé par Robert Clouse
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Art martial, Action, Aventure, Wuxiapian
Thèmes Sport, Arts martiaux
Acteurs Richard Norton, Amanda Wyss, Tom Villard, Mel Novak, Keith Vitali, Nora "Dodo" Denney
Rôle The Assassin
Note50%
Un expert en arts martiaux dirige une équipe d'autres artistes martiaux pour sauver la fille d'un sénateur d'une île dirigée par le chef maléfique d'un culte religieux fanatique.
Lovely But Deadly (1981)
, 1h33Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Art martial, Action, Wuxiapian
Thèmes Sport, Arts martiaux
Acteurs John Randolph, Richard Herd, Mel Novak, Marie Windsor, Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Mark Holden
Rôle Warren Lang
Note41%
Dent pour dent (1981)
, 1h40Réalisé par Steve Carver
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Art martial, Action, Aventure, Policier, Wuxiapian
Thèmes Maladie, Psychotrope, Sport, Arts martiaux, Gangsters
Acteurs Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark, Mako Iwamatsu, Rosalind Chao
Rôle Tony Montoya
Note54%
Au cours d’une mission, Dave Pierce le partenaire de l’officier Sean Kane est abattu sous ses yeux. Quelques jours plus tard, Linda la copine de Dave Pierce est également assassinée. Kane quitte alors la police de San Francisco et décide de les venger et d'éliminer les responsables des meurtres…
Tom Horn (1980)
, 1h31Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Biographie, Action, Historique, Romance, Western
Thèmes La peine de mort
Acteurs Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Slim Pickens, Billy "Green" Bush, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Rôle Corbett's Bodyguard
Note67%
Tom Horn, éclaireur et pisteur légendaire qui a aidé à capturer Geronimo, erre autour de la frontière qui disparait rapidement.
, 1h37Réalisé par Leslie H. Martinson, Cesare Canevari
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Thriller, Action, Aventure
Thèmes Espionnage, Politique
Acteurs Peter Graves, Curd Jürgens, Karin Schubert, Michael Dante, Frank Braña, Michael Constantine
Rôle Mendoza
Note31%
The story concerns an experimental nuclear cruise missile which is stolen from a Soviet military site in the USSR. An international terrorist group, under the command of a European power-crazed man known only as the Baron is responsible. The Baron plots to use the stolen Soviet missile to destroy an international peace conference in one week located on an island in the Persian Gulf. When the U.S. counsul to Iran is murdered by the Baron's henchmen, Alec Franklin, an US intelligence agent, is ordered to travel to Iran to take over as counsul as well as investigate the murder. Upon arrival in Tehran, Alec is followed by two of the Baron's henchmen whom attempt to kill him, but Alec manages to escape.
Force One (1979)
, 1h31Réalisé par Paul Aaron
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Art martial, Action, Aventure, Policier, Wuxiapian
Thèmes Maladie, Psychotrope, Sport, Arts martiaux
Acteurs Chuck Norris, Jennifer O'Neill, Clu Gulager, Ron O'Neal, Eric Laneuville, James Withmore Jr.
Rôle The Announcer
Note50%
Endeuillée par la mort de deux collègues tués par un professionnel en arts martiaux, une brigade de police fait appel à un expert en combat afin de leur inculquer les techniques d'autodéfense.