Chan Kong-Sang, also known as Sing Lung or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954) is a Chinese actor, director, martial artist, film producer, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer. Chan is one of the best known names in kung fu and action movies worldwide for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, usage of improvised weapons and his innovative stunts.

Steven Seagal is a movie star, mor specifically an action movie star. The public has long since stopped believing in the movie star as moral paragon, but an odd residue of affectionate respect clings to action stars, probably because they're men of brawn-over-brain, seemingly incapable of the treachery, duplicity, and calculation associated with intelligence. Action heroes, whatever their personal flaws, benefit more than other movie stars from the mythical figures they portray.

Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29 1970) is an American film actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action thrillers. She is best known for her films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her most popular films include "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Gattaca" (1997) and the two "Kill Bill" movies (2003–04).

Jean-Claude Van Damme (born October 18, 1960) is a Belgian-born martial artist and actor who is best known for his large catalogue of action movies. His Belgian background combined with his physique gave rise to his nickname "The Muscles from Brussels". Van Damme has also been called the "King of the Belgians" due to his international superstardom.

Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series "Full Frontal" before gaining critical recognition in the biopic "Chopper" (2000). After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian television shows and films, …

John McTiernan (born January 8, 1951) is an American movie director, best known for his action films. He was born in Albany, New York and was an M.F.A. graduate of the AFI Conservatory. Most action cinema fans agree that the director's best works have been "Predator", "Die Hard", and "The Hunt for Red October". McTiernan directed these three films back-to-back. He was once discussed as being involved in a fourth "Die Hard" movie, …

Crichton, born in Chicago, is best known as the author of several books that have gone onto become famous films, most notably "Jurassic Park" and its sequel, "The Lost World". He is also the author of "The Andromeda Strain", "Rising Sun", "The Great Train Robbery", "Congo", "Sphere", "Eaters Of The Dead, and "Timeline" among others, all of which have been adapted for the big screen and TV. He was also the creator of the award-winning TV series [... ]

Renny Harlin is a film director and producer mostly known for action movies. Harlin moved to the U.S. in the mid 1980s and initially started directing low-budget films. Harlin gained attention after directing "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4", which proved to be a success. His next film, the Andrew Dice Clay film "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane" failed at the box office, but Harlin achieved financial success with "Die Hard 2".

Franka Potente (born on July 22, 1974) is a German film actress. She began her career in the comedy "It's a Jungle Out There" (1995) and gained critical recognition in the action thriller "Run Lola Run" (1998). After half a decade of critically acclaimed roles in German films, Potente gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of Barbara Buckley in "Blow" (2001) and the female lead opposite Matt Damon in "The Bourne Identity" (2002).

Kamal Haasan is a four time National Film Award winning Indian film actor. He began his career as a child artist in many films, while also attending a theatre for stage plays, to follow his dream to act. Kamal Haasan gained the Indian cinema's attention in 1960 by playing an Award-winning role in his first blockbuster, "Kalathur Kannamma" and since then he has acted in over two hundred Indian films.

Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and stage actor. Known for often playing dark and villainous characters, he has so far predominantly appeared in supporting roles in a wide variety of both low-budget ("Boys Don't Cry") and major studio films ("Jarhead"), ranging from drama to horror and action thrillers. His most critically praised performance to date was as "The New Republic" magazine editor, …

Kathryn Bigelow (born 27 November 1951) is an American film director. Some of the genres represented in her wide variety of films include science fiction, action and horror.

is a Japanese actor. He began training with Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club. Originally aiming to be an action star, he developed good all-round martial arts ability. He was first noticed as a serious actor in the movie "Mahjong Hourouki" directed by Makoto Wada. Wada and Sanada's relationship is similar to that of John Huston and Humphrey Bogart and since then Sanada has acted in every one of Wada's movies.

Miranda Otto (born December 16, 1967) is an Australian Film Institute-nominated and Logie Award-winning Australian actress. The daughter of actors Barry and Lindsay Otto, she began acting at age nineteen, and has performed in a variety of low-budget and major studio films. Otto's first major film appearance was in 1986's "Emma's War", in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II.

Richard Norton (born January 6, 1950, in Australia) is a martial artist, action film star, and stuntman. Norton worked as a bodyguard in the entertainment business before pursuing an acting career. His first screen appearance was in the 1980 Chuck Norris film "The Octagon", and to date he has worked on over 70 feature films and television programs.

Sybil Danning (born May 24, 1947) is an Austrian actress known for her many roles in B-movies, science fiction films, and action movies. Danning was born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria as Sybille Johanna Danninger. She became an actress after leaving home around 1968 at the age of 16. She was a notable sex symbol in the 1980s and some of her best known appearances include "Battle Beyond the Stars", "Reform School Girls", "Chained Heat", …

Al Leong (born Albert Leong, aka Al 'Ka Bong') is an Asian American stuntman and actor. Characterised by impressive martial arts skills, long wavy hair, and a prominent Fu Manchu moustache, he has had a number of small but memorable roles as the token long-haired Asian henchman in popular action films, that usually ended in his character's death. Among action movie fans Leong has a cult following.

Doug Richardson is an American screenwriter known for his ability to write action movies. He first made an impression with his so-far unproduced spec script "Hell Bent... and Back" which sold for one million dollars. He wrote an adaptation of Walter Wager's novel "58 Minutes" which became the basis for the sequel "Die Hard 2: Die Harder". Other screenplays include "Bad Boys" and "Hostage".

Shriya Saran :(born on September 11, 1982) is an Indian film actress. She began her career acting in Telugu language films in the Telugu cinema industry, while also attending an acting studio, to follow her dream to act. After her debut in 2001 with Ishtam, she gained Indian cinema's attention in 2002 by playing the role of Bhanu in Santhosham, her first major hit. She reached superstardom by enacting the role of Anjali in the Telugu language film, Nuvve Nuvve, …

Caroline Munro (born January 16, 1950 in Windsor, Berkshire) is a British actress and model best known for her many appearances in science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s.

Antonio Margheriti (born in Rome, September 19, 1930 - died in Monterosi, Viterbo, November 4, 2002), better known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was a prolific Italian filmmaker. He was born in Rome and died from a heart attack, near Rome at the age of 72. Margheriti is known for his science fiction, horror, spaghetti western and action movies. He is the director of such cult movies as "Horror Castle", "Danza macabra", "Spacemen", …

Moon Lee ; Cantonese Jyutping: Li Choi-Fung, Hanyu Pinyin: Li Sai-Feng, born February 14, 1965) is a Hong Kong actress who frequently play roles related to the action and martial arts genre in TV serials and films. She is particularly notable in the subgenre known as Girls with Guns.

Cesar Manhilot, known by his popular screen name Cesar Montano, is a multi-awarded Filipino actor and film director. He started in show business as a stuntman for a lot of known Filipino actors. He played roles in numerous B movies. He then played major roles in several action movies and a brief but successful television career playing the lead role in the television sitcom "Kaya ni Mister, Kaya ni Misis" with veteran actress Maricel Soriano.

Jack Scalia (born November 10, 1951) is an American actor. He has appeared in drama, horror, action, and thriller films. Scalia was born in Brooklyn, New York to a baseball player father. He began his career as a clothes model, most notably in a series of ads for Eminence briefs which capitalized on his "beefcake" appeal. In 1982, to promote his TV series, "The Devlin Connection", Scalia took off his shirt and posed, cigarette in hand, for a pin-up wall poster.

Ajith Kumar is an Indian film actor. He began his career doing various jobs in Andhra Pradesh, while also attending a theatre for stage plays, to follow his dream to act. After three years of acting in minor roles and small-budget ventures in Indian films, Ajith Kumar gained the Indian cinema's attention in 1995 by playing the role of Jeeva in "Aasai", his first blockbuster and since then he has acted in over forty Indian films, …

Seth Gilliam (November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is most notable for appearances on the HBO programs "Oz" (as Clayton Hughes) and "The Wire" (as Ellis Carver). On both of these appearances, he co-starred with Lance Reddick and J.D. Williams. He was directly cast alongside both of these actors. His feature film credits include Private Sugar Watkins in the 1997 action movie "Starship Troopers".

Jerry Trimble, Jr. (born 12 May 1963 in Newport, Kentucky) is an actor, writer, and martial artist. Trimble was a kickboxer until retiring from the sport in 1989 to pursue a career in the entertainment business. His acting debut came in the 1990 Jet Li film "The Master". Trimble's acting credits include numerous starring roles in action films, as well as stuntwork and dramatic parts. He is married to actress Ami Dolenz. The couple reside in California.

Ron Van Clief (born January 25, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American martial artist and an actor in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films.He is the father of slam poetry guru Shihan van Clief.

Mel Novak is an American character actor whose "dark" good looks and athletic physique have guaranteed him mostly villainous roles in action, martial arts and occasionally horror and science fiction films. He's known for doing all of his own stunts and fighting scenes.

s "Fireback". Note the customized weapon, a recurring element in the films of Teddy Page.]]Teddy Page, also credited as Teddy Chiu or Irvin Johnson, is a Filipino film director and occasional writer. Page began his career apparently as a very young man in the early '80s, directing low-budget action movies for producer K.Y. Lim's "Silver Star Film Company" (called 'Kinavesa' in the Philippines).

Dale Cook (born November 24, 1958, Tulsa, Oklahoma), nicknamed Apollo, is an accomplished American martial artist and sometime actor. In the early 1990s, Cook starred in several action-oriented B-movies, including "Blood Ring" and "American Kickboxer 2". As a professional fighter, he claimed various titles including WKA Middleweight World Champion. Cook is a 7th degree black belt and currently operates a karate school in Tulsa.

Vijay (born Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar on June 22, 1974) is an Indian film actor. He began his career doing minor roles as a child artist in the Tamil cinema industry, while also attending a theatre for stage plays, to follow his dream to act. After five years of minor and unnoticed roles in Tamil language films, Vijay gained Indian cinema's attention in 1996 by playing the role of Raja in "Poove Unakkaga", …

Ruel Vernal, possibly sometimes also credited as Ray Vernal, is a Filipino B-movie actor who's achieved marginal fame for his role as the hitman "Man with the Golden Hand" in the Filipino low-budget action movie "Fireback", directed by Teddy Page. Besides the credit on "Fireback" and possible other small parts in films produced by K.Y. Lim's "Silver Star Film Company", there is no information on him to be found anywhere, …

Harry J. Wild (1900 - 1961) was a film and television cinematographer. Wild worked at RKO studios from 1931 through the 1950s. In 1936, Wild shot his first feature, and in 1936 he shared an Oscar nomination for the Republic film "Army Girl" (1938). During the 1930s he was the lensman for a number of film westerns. In 1942, Wild was tasked with the shooting of additional scenes for Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons". He was uncredited for his work.

Andrea Bruschi (born May 1 1968) is an Italian actor who has appeared in a number of comedy, action, and suspense films, and has also worked as a producer, director, and screenwriter. He also appeared in an episode of the HBO television series "Rome" entitled "An Owl in a Thornbush". Bruschi is an accomplished musician and was once part of the 1980s rock band Bronco Billy.

Richard Abelardo (born 1908) was a Filipino film director famous for directing a period movies known after World War II for LVN Pictures. He made his first directorial job under Fernando Poe Production of Malikmati aka In the Winked of an Eye starred by Fernando Poe and Mona Lisa Abelardo signed an exclusive contract for Lvn Pictures and directed Leopoldo Salcedo in Action Movie about the life of a Bandit in Lvn Picture's El Diablo aka The Devil.