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Johnny Strong is a Actor and Sound American born on 1 january 1974 at Los Angeles (USA)
Johnny Strong (born 1974) is an American actor, musician and martial artist. He is best known for his roles in Black Hawk Down (as Medal of Honor recipient Randy Shughart) and The Fast and the Furious as Leon. Aside from acting, Strong is also the founder of the band Operator.
Film career
Strong has had various roles in television, and landed a role in the Steven Seagal film The Glimmer Man. He then worked on Sylvester Stallone's Get Carter, The Fast and The Furious, and Black Hawk Down. Strong stars in Sinners & Saints, a New Orleans-based police thriller featuring Sean Patrick Flanery and Tom Berenger released in 2012.
2013 marked his return to the screen, starring in Daylight's End, an apocalyptic thriller, with Lance Henriksen.
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Johnny Strong
Biography
Strong was born in Los Angeles. At 7 began studying martial arts, taking Judo in the San Fernando Valley. He went on to learn Kickboxing, Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, Boxing, and eventually earned a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Chris Lisciandro. At 12, he began to play guitar and taught himself to play drums, bass, and piano. He was signed to two major labels RCA and Atlantic Records. He has released six albums: Bombthreat: Before She Blows with his former band "Fly", Lick My Neck Good Sleep, Can You Hear Me Now?, Soulcrusher, The War of Art, and Close to Extinction with his current band "Operator".Film career
Strong has had various roles in television, and landed a role in the Steven Seagal film The Glimmer Man. He then worked on Sylvester Stallone's Get Carter, The Fast and The Furious, and Black Hawk Down. Strong stars in Sinners & Saints, a New Orleans-based police thriller featuring Sean Patrick Flanery and Tom Berenger released in 2012.
2013 marked his return to the screen, starring in Daylight's End, an apocalyptic thriller, with Lance Henriksen.
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Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
, 2h10Directed by Vin Diesel, Justin Lin, Neal H. Moritz
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodríguez, Jordana Brewster, Dwayne Johnson, Tyrese Gibson
Roles (archive footage)
Rating69%
Following their successful Rio heist, Dominic "Dom" Toretto and his professional criminal crew have fled around the world: Dom lives with Elena; his sister Mia lives with Brian O'Conner and their son, Jack; Gisele and Han live in Hong Kong; and Roman and Tej live in luxury.
Fast Five (2011)
, 2h10Directed by Vin Diesel, Justin Lin, Neal H. Moritz, Gary Scott Thompson, Chris Morgan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Heist films
Actors Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Dwayne Johnson, Ludacris
Roles Leon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating72%
When Dominic "Dom" Toretto is being transported to Lompoc Prison by bus, his sister Mia Toretto and friend Brian O'Conner lead an assault on the bus, causing it to crash and freeing Dom. While the authorities search for them, the trio escapes to Rio de Janeiro. Awaiting Dom's arrival, Mia and Brian join their friend Vince and other participants on a job to steal three cars from a train. Brian and Mia discover that agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are also on the train and that the cars are seized property. When Dom arrives with the rest of the participants, he realizes that one of them, Zizi, is only interested in stealing one car, a Ford GT40. Dom has Mia steal the car herself before he and Brian fight Zizi and his henchmen, during which Zizi kills the DEA agents assigned to the vehicles. Dom and Brian are captured and brought to crime lord Hernan Reyes, the owner of the cars and Zizi's boss. Reyes orders the pair be interrogated to discover the location of the car, but they manage to escape and retreat to their safehouse.
Sinners and Saints (2010)
, 1h44Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Johnny Strong, Kevin Phillips, Costas Mandylor, Sean Patrick Flanery, Method Man, Kim Coates
Roles Detective Sean Riley
Rating60%
Detective Sean Riley (Johnny Strong) is emotionally destroyed after the death of his son and the abandonment of his wife. After the death of his partner, Det. Dave Besson (Kim Coates), Riley's superior, Captain Trahan (Tom Berenger) assigns Riley to investigate a series of murders involving victims burned several times over. One of the victims is the younger brother of infamous gangster Weddo (Method Man), which sparks a gang war in the Big Easy.
Sin (2003)
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Gary Oldman, Ving Rhames, Kerry Washington, Alicia Coppola, Bill Sage, Chris Spencer
Roles Jerry
Rating45%
Quand sa sœur est brutalement violée, un ex-flic est contraint d'affronter un mystérieux criminel de son passé.
Black Hawk Down (2002)
, 2h23Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Tom Hardy, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner
Roles SFC Randy Shughart
Rating76%
In 1993, following the ousting of the central government and start of a civil war, a major United Nations military operation in Somalia is authorized with a peacekeeping mandate. After the bulk of the peacekeepers are withdrawn, the Mogadishu-based militia loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid have declared war on the remaining UN personnel. In response, U.S. Army Rangers, Delta Force counter-terrorist operators, and 160th SOAR aviators are deployed to Mogadishu to capture Aidid, who has proclaimed himself president of the country.
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
, 1h47Directed by Rob Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodríguez, Jordana Brewster, Matt Schulze, Thom Barry
Roles Leon
Rating68%
On docks outside Los Angeles, a semi-truck is loaded with electronics, but a corrupted dock worker informs an unknown person about the truck shipment. During the night, while the truck drives on the interstate, it is approached by three heavily modified black Honda Civics with green underglow. The occupants of the Civics immobilize the truck driver, hijack the truck and escape, passing through a roadblock and stealing thousands of dollars worth of shipment.
Get Carter (2000)
, 1h42Directed by Stephen T. Kay
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, John C. McGinley
Roles Eddie
Rating51%
Mob enforcer Jack Carter returns home to Seattle, Washington when he learns that his brother, Ritchie, has been killed in a drunk driving accident. While he starts investigating Ritchie's murder, his mob partner in Las Vegas, Con McCarty, covers for him with the mob boss, Fletcher. It also comes out that Carter has been having an affair with Fletcher's girlfriend, Audrey.
On the Edge of Innocence (1997)
, 1h30Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Kellie Martin, James Marsden, Karen Young, Lisa Jakub, Jamie Kennedy, Vince Vieluf
Roles Squeamich
Rating60%
Despite being a straight A student, Zoe Tyler (Kellie Martin), a manic-depressive 17-year-old, constantly gets in trouble with her friends including Ann (Clea DuVall) due to angry outbursts caused by her refusal to take her medicine. One day, she skips school to hitchhike to San Francisco, California to visit her father at a piano concert. When the guy giving her a drive attempts to undress her, she screams and leaves the car, running back home where her mother Victoria (Karen Young) expresses her concern over her absence. In response, she runs away home to a nearby carnaval, where she winds up dangling from a Ferris wheel. Her concerned mother decides that now something has to be done, and commits her daughter to a mental institution. Meanwhile, somewhere else Jake Walker (James Marsden), another 17-year-old, has difficulty respecting authority as well, even though he was raised by two forward, highly successful parents, one of whom is a respected lawyer, David (Terry O'Quinn). When he is not sleeping around with girls, Jake spends his day running away from the cops because of misdemeanors. One night, after a concert, he is arrested by the police and the judge advises for Jake to be in a juvenile facility. Preventing these hard measures to be done, David commits his son to the same mental hospital for a period of one month.
The Glimmer Man (1996)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bob Gunton, Steven Seagal, Brian Cox, Michelle Johnson, John M. Jackson
Roles Johnny Deverell
Rating54%
Jack Cole (Steven Seagal) was once a government intelligence operative known as "The Glimmer Man," because he could move so quickly and quietly through the jungle that his victims would only see a glimmer before they died. Having left the Glimmer Man job behind him, Cole—steeped in buddhism and not used to working with others has become a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Directed by John Tiffin Patterson
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Ann-Margret, Peter Coyote, Leslie Hope, Chistian Campbell, Hedy Burress, Tobey Maguire
Roles Tim
Rating65%
The film opens with three teenage boys pulling up to the house of Ruben Borchardt (Peter Coyote) early on Easter Sunday in 1994. They break into Ruben's house armed with a shotgun, intending to kill Ruben on the promise of payment. Gathering at the top of the basement steps where Ruben sleeps, the boys draw their shotgun and shoot Mr. Borchardt as he makes his way up the stairs. Having carried out their deed, the three boys flee the scene.
Fear (1946)
, 1h8Directed by Alfred Zeisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Warren William, Peter Cookson, Anne Gwynne, Nestor Paiva, Almira Sessions, Ernie Adams
Roles Étudiant
Rating56%
A broke medical student in desperate need of tuition money sells everything he owns to a dishonest professor. When the student's scholarship is suddenly taken from him, he flies into a rage and kills the professor, whom he feels is responsible for his situation. His life then begins to improve, but as the student grows more reckless, police suspicion continues to grow.
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Sinners and Saints (2010)
, 1h44Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Johnny Strong, Kevin Phillips, Costas Mandylor, Sean Patrick Flanery, Method Man, Kim Coates
Roles Music
Rating60%
Detective Sean Riley (Johnny Strong) is emotionally destroyed after the death of his son and the abandonment of his wife. After the death of his partner, Det. Dave Besson (Kim Coates), Riley's superior, Captain Trahan (Tom Berenger) assigns Riley to investigate a series of murders involving victims burned several times over. One of the victims is the younger brother of infamous gangster Weddo (Method Man), which sparks a gang war in the Big Easy.