Happy Birthday Mark Dacascos!

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Happy Birthday Mark Dacascos! Born on this day in Hawaii 1964, Mark turns 50 today!

Between the ages of 7 and 18 he had won numerous karate and kung-fu championships. A talented martial artist, Mark is also an actor and television personality having competed in Dancing with the Stars and appearing as “The Chairman” in Iron Chef America. His most notable films include Crying Freeman, Only the Strong, Drive (1997), and Brotherhood of the Wolf. You can read a bit more about him in our profile here.

Be sure to watch him on NBC’s Chicago PD on March 12th (US). You can keep current with Mark on his official Facebook page or Twitter account.

Here’s a cool tribute trailer on YouTube:

Movie Trailers

Drive

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Crying Freeman

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Only the Strong

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Elliot Richards

Elliot is KFK's Web Content Editor, writer and lover of all kinds of movies, including martial arts ones. Favourites include The Prodigal Son, Magnificent Butcher, The Victim, Legend of a Fighter and the Ip Man movies with Donnie Yen.