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Post by maphillips3 on Jan 29, 2010 17:08:17 GMT -5
Gene lebell was seen as a popular stunt man, but also was considered the hardest man in Hollywood. I believe he trained Bruce lee in grappling, and was a champion in Judo, and he took up boxing. What are your feelings on Judo Gene.
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Post by maphillips3 on Feb 14, 2010 16:08:06 GMT -5
What do you guys think?
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Post by chaney on Feb 15, 2010 16:57:16 GMT -5
Judo Gene has worked on so much over the years and it always brings a smile to my face seeing him in bit parts. Probably his best fight scene came against pro football player Jim Brown in "Slaughter's Big-Rip Off", though he was also in the Joe Don Baker fight in the orginal "Walking Tall". Of course, he fought Bruce Lee on "Green Hornet" as well. He's played a lot of boxing and wrestling referees. On camera I heard he's been known to be a bit of a ham who enjoyed doing prolonged death scenes to try to stretch out his often unbilled screen time to the delight of his cronies. The stunt community loves him. As a fighter he did one of the original boxer vs. wrestler shoot matches back in the early 60's and beat the boxer. He was of course a world champion wrestler and AAU judo man who took delight in being a self-described sadist on the mat and a teddy bear off (at least to some degree). There are two books about him, "The Godfather of Grappling" and "The Toughest Man Alive". They're both written by him and are entertaining, but the latter he didn't sanction. It's basically an early draft of the first title that he wrote and claims was stolen and published without his consent. Believe that one is largely off the market. He also has a website: www.genelebell.com |
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