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Dolph Lundgren
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November 3, 1959 in Stockholm, Sweden
Biography:Highly intelligent and extremely well educated -- earning an M.A. at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology and a Fulbright Fellowship at M.I.T. -- "Dolph Lundgren" is better known for his athletic achievements than his intellectual pursuits. An internationally recognized kick-boxing champion, the 6' 6", 250-pound Lundgren was working as a doorman at a trendy New York disco when his personally produced exercise video Maximum Potential caught the eye of movie producers. His 1984 cinematic debut was a bit part in the James Bond opus A View to a Kill, which co-starred Lundgren's then-lover "Grace Jones". (Earlier reports that Lundgren appeared in 1970's "The Out-of-Towners" were really out of town.) His breakthrough film role was as Drago, the automaton-like Russian ring opponent of "Sylvester Stallone" in Rocky IV (1985). The content of Lundgren's subsequent films is implicit in their titles: "Masters... Full Biography
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"The Spirit" & "Punisher: War Zone" (December): Coming off the high of last summer's "The Dark...
"The Spirit" & "Punisher: War Zone" (December): Coming off the high of last summer's "The Dark...
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