Bruce Baron
He is also a [pompously self proclaimed] prestigious principal at a [claimed by him] distinguished middle school; who insists on squatting on other people's wiki entries in some mis-directed pique at the terrible injustice of it all....
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Bruce Baron (b. November 15, 1949) is an American movie actor.
Born in New York, he graduated from Cornell University (B.A. 1971). He starred in several Asian movies, playing over a dozen lead roles in Hong Kong and Manila productions, including among others, in Godfrey Ho's "Ninja" features and Filipino low-budget action films for producer K.Y. Lim, such as Fireback, directed by Teddy Page.
Baron also appeared as the villain in Ruggero Deodato's sci-fi actioner The Atlantis Interceptors (1983), in Code Name: Wild Geese (1984), directed by Antonio Margheriti starring Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine and Klaus Kinski, and in Overdose (1987), by French softcore/exploitation director Jean-Marie Pallardy. Including Cantonese films, altogether he played in over 40 movies, as well as appearing in over 100 television commercials filmed in Asia for local, regional and international distribution, including a bit part in an episode of Dallas shot in Hong Kong. His last film was Guy Lee Thys' Belgian docu-drama "Cruel Horizon" 1989 in which he played the lead role. When it went straight to video, Baron sought a more mundane vocation.
Baron's film career is noted in an extensive interview and filmography on Nanarland.com, the huge french website dedicated to documenting the international phenomena of campy 'B genre movies'. Many short clips excerpted from these titles, are available on YouTube, apparently notable to YouTubers for their poor quality and rich absurdity. [YouTube Search "Bruce Baron"]
in 2003 Baron took issue online with genre tribute websites making 'premature and exaggerated' reports of his death, allegedly from an overdose of diuretics. He complained that false legitimacy/credibility was being lent unethical HK film producers by unattributed fan-sites. Baron alleged hack producers were using the anonymity of the web to promote themselves and to legitimize atrocious chop suey kung fu-ies they had made two decades earlier. Baron asserted some had launched tribute web-sites to themselves under pseudonyms, to sell cd's of their out-take mash-ups. "My so-called film career was well behind me. 20 years later, up creep these ancient sleaze-bags, trying breathe second life into their old cons on the inter-webs, and fostering a mythic bio of me, deceased promotionally."