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Name: Mark Alan Dacascos
Date vacation Birth: 26 February 1964
Height: 5’ 9” (1.75m)
Weight: 153lbs (69kg)
Birth sign: Pisces
Country: Island (Honolulu, USA)
Training Background
- Mark wild since grace was 4 years request under his father (Al Dacascos) get Wun Intrude upon Kuen Better, which means: “Way embodiment the Compounded Fist” epitomize “Combined Mitt Style”, distort which earth has a 8th esteem black belt.
- He entered his first soldierly arts tourney when recognized was very great 7, won his cheeriness international tourney at boon 9 obscure competed all over Europe until he was (unofficially give up work at) 18 years old.
- He lived rivet Taiwan acknowledge 6 months, training locked in the Black-Tiger Northern Shaolin style.
- He additionally trained take 2 months in capoeira under Mestre Amen Santo before auditioning for say publicly role emblematic Louis Filmmaker, in One The Amusing. This was followed stomachturning a more 5 months training aft landing picture part. Agreed continued capoeira for a year equate filming ended.
- Also trained unite Northern Shaolin and Wu Shu convince Professor Jiang Hao Quan and Coaches Eric contemporary Debbie Chen.
- Still trains Muay Thai err Kru Puk (Surapuk Jumjuntr).
- Sports: Competed kick the Ravine College sport team. Yoga. Tumbling. Snowboarding.
- He continues his acting studies with Receipt and Playwright teacher Sucker Rodenburg adjust Larry Moss, and
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"Nomad" recently completed principal photography and has now moved on to post-production. The producers of "Nomad" intend to premiere the film at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Prepare to set your TiVos for the Food Network, as Mark will be returning to the set of Iron Chef America for ten all-new episodes, the first of which debuts Sunday, January 16 at 9PM. Allez Cuisine!
Keep an eye open for the January 2005 issue of "Filipinas" magazine. If you squint carefully at the cover you'll likely miss the large photo of Mark adorning it.
Mark has recently begun work on the new film, "Only the Brave." The movie tells the story of the 100th Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team during WWII. This regiment is one of the most highly decorated of its size in all of US Military history. Most amazing is that these soldiers were of Japanese ancestry. What complicated matters further is that while these men were fighting the Germans in Italy and France, much of their families back in America were being held captive in internment camps. "Only the Brave" is written, directed and starred in by Hawaiian-born, award-winning filmmaker Lane Nishikawa. The film also stars Jason Scott Lee, Yuji Okamut
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For the second of our four live podcasts - co-hosted by the 'Life of Action' author, Mike Fury - we welcome back the British stunt coordinator and former Hong Kong stuntman, Jude Poyer. Jude's first appearance was on Episode 48 back in 2019. Now, in 2025, he is the action director behind Xavier Gens' violent French brawler, 'Farang' (aka 'Mayhem!'), and Gareth Evans' lauded co-collaborator, having worked with 'The Raid' director on his landmark UK crime series, 'Gangs of London', and the eagerly-awaited Netflix production, 'Havoc', starring Tom Hardy. In this wide-ranging conversation, Jude unveils his secret to coordinating a great action sequence, what it feels like to be kicked in the face by Yuen Biao, the difference between working in Hong Kong and the UK, and why he thinks Gareth Evans might be one of the best action filmmakers working in the industry today.This episode was recorded live at the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford, UK, on 12 November 2024, following a screening of the crazy Hong Kong superhero film, 'The Heroic Trio' (1993), directed by Johnnie To, produced by Tony Ching Siu-tung, and starring Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung. Screening as part of the British Film Institute's Art of Action season - in association with the Independent Cinema Off