
Al Leong
Actor
Born: September 30, 1952 (73 years old)
Place of birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Biography
Asian American actor & stuntman has picked up a cult fan following based around his numerous appearances in high voltage action flicks from the mid-1980s onwards. Al nearly always turns up as a bad guy with his lean muscled physique, incredible agility, amazing martial arts skills, wispy black hair, and Fu-Manchu style mustache!! Best known on-screen as "Endo" torturing 'Mel Gibson' with electric shocks in Lethal Weapon (1987), as "Uli" the chocolate bar stealing terrorist in Die Hard (1988), one of the Wing Kong members in Big Trouble in Little China (1986), as a short Genghis Khan in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and as "Minh" the henchman punching on with 'Brandon Lee' in a blazing laundry in the climax of Rapid Fire (1992). Made his directorial debut in 2000 by writing & directing the low budget Daddy Tell Me a Story (2000).
Filmography (63)
- Die Hard (1988, ★ 7.8)
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989, ★ 6.9)
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004, ★ 7.6)
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986, ★ 7.2)
- Lethal Weapon (1987, ★ 7.3)
- They Live (1988, ★ 7.3)
- The Twilight Zone (1985, ★ 7.8)
- Deadwood (2004, ★ 8.1)
- The A-Team (1983, ★ 7.5)
- That '70s Show (1998, ★ 7.9)
- MacGyver (1985, ★ 7.7)
- Magnum, P.I. (1980, ★ 7.3)
- 24 (2001, ★ 7.8)
- Escape from L.A. (1996, ★ 5.9)
- The Shadow (1994, ★ 6.1)
- Death Warrant (1990, ★ 6.2)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983, ★ 6.5)
- Protocol (1984, ★ 5.5)
- Running Scared (1986, ★ 6.1)
- Big Trouble (1986, ★ 5.4)
- She's Having a Baby (1988, ★ 5.9)
- Black Rain (1989, ★ 6.6)
- The Scorpion King (2002, ★ 5.6)
- Last Action Hero (1993, ★ 6.5)
- Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993, ★ 6.5)
- Action Jackson (1988, ★ 5.5)
- Rapid Fire (1992, ★ 6.4)
- Joshua Tree (1993, ★ 6)
- Beverly Hills Cop III (1994, ★ 5.9)
- The Perfect Weapon (1991, ★ 6.2)