Who are these assholes?
Obscure actors: All the fun of acting without the loss of privacy

Today, whilst watching B-Grade flick DNA, i realised that im the only person i know of who may actually recognise the unknown actors.......and their even more unknown film credits.
And then i recognised an oft manifested but seldom appreciated talent for recognising really obscure actors.

Whilst most are content scratching their heads wondering " i've seen this guy in some other movie.....o ya he's that guy in (insert movie name)", i will go one step further to not only name him but his various other accomplisments as well.


Introducing the first of many (hopefully) OBSCURE ACTORS OF THE WEEK (aka WHO R THESE ASSHOLES?!)

JURGEN PROCHNOW

Some of you are probably wondering "who is this asshole?!". Well, he's a German actor whose more mainstream appearances include Da Vinci Code (as the bank officer who sells out Langton) , Judge Dredd (the corrupt judge who tries to revive Project Lazarus) and...well, that's abt it.

So why the hell, in my infinite wisdom would i know him? Because of the biopic abt the Governor of California See Arnold Run where he plays the Governator in later years.

See Arnold Run also stars another obscure actor (but prominent bodybuilder) Roland Kickinger. He's name sounds like a cross between a badass tool of death and an everday household appliance. One can almost imagine vikings scream "BRING OUT THE KICKINGER!!!!" or an angry but determined housewife muttering "I'll get these dustmites with the Kickinger 2000". So if you must know who the Kickinger is......
seen here playing the young Arnie in See Arnold Run.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves, we are talking about DNA. A film so badly a ripoff of Predator it makes Arnie wanna scream " Ruuuuunnnnnnnn, gooooooo, get to dah chupperrrrr!!!!!!" (translation: run, go, get to the chopper).

DNA stars uber hunk and martial arts extraordinaire Marc Dacascos, who could have saved the film by performing the martial moves he pulled in a show he's better known for Only the Strong (most young males remember this as the only movie about capoeira).


His other works include Cradle to the Grave (the villian who dies by swallowing radioactive isotope), Crying Freeman and other flicks where they needed ethically ambiguous looking Americans to play anything from Asians to Latin Americans. I think he also had a role in Last of The Mohicans and some other obscure French flick called BrotherHood of the Wolf.

Mark is really known more as a martial artists than an actor because of his links. His father is founder of even more obscure martial art Won Hop Kuen Do.

There are a helluva lot of obscure acting talents out there, including guys like Wolf Larsen, Jalal Merhi, Ralf Moeller and everyone's old favourite Sven-Ole Thorsen. I'll get to these guys soon. In the meantime, i gotta start posting the next Badass of the Week.