Nick Nicholson
Also Known As: Nick Nichols, Daniel Nicholson, Nick Nickelson, Nick Nickolson
Biography: Nick Nicholson was one of many Americans to expatriate to the Philippines after the Vietnam War. Starting in the mid 1970's he became involved in the local film industry there as an actor and casting director, often responsible for finding as many Anglo-looking locals to play non-Filipino roles in local productions. He can also be seen in numerous bigger-budget American Vietnam War films made including APOCALYPSE NOW and PLATOON, often playing American soldiers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: United States
Adult: No
Birthday: April 19, 1952
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 11, 2010
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Demon of Paradise
Overview: Hunters become the hunted when illegal dynamite disturbs the ageold slumber of a carnivorous lizardman. Resort owner Angela, joins forces with Sheriff Keefer to save tourists from the beast's path of death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-28
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The Siege of Firebase Gloria
Overview: A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-27
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No Dead Heroes
Overview: Left for dead in Vietnam, Lieutenant Cotter became a guinea pig for KGB baddie Mitovitch. Implanted with a mind control microchip, he is turned into a mindless killer. His colleague Lieutenant Sanders goes looking for him in Cambodia, then in El Salvador, where they kill pretty much everyone they meet.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Trident Force
Overview: An outbreak of bombings, assassinations, and massacres by an extremist, Marxist terrorist group, alarms the international community who calls for help - the ultimate solution - the Trident Force.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-10
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Raw Target
Overview: This high-powered action flick follows kickboxing champion Johnny Rider, who quits the ring after accidentally killing an opponent but is forced to employ his skills again to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of crime boss Rod Sparks (Nicholas Hill). After infiltrating Rod's gang, Johnny is targeted himself by Bill Williams (Ron Hall), a cop seeking revenge for the death of his own brother -- the fighter killed by Johnny.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-05
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Dead in 5 Heartbeats
Overview: Adapted from the successful novel, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, by Ralph "Sonny" Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. The story follows the Infidelz MC's former President, Patch Kinkade, who has left his personal demons behind for the calm of desert life. When war erupts between his brothers he left behind and the rival Hooligans, Patch rides back into town to either make peace or do battle.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-02
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Blood Hands
Overview: Steve, a young kickboxer, returns home to find his parents have been brutalized by a gang of martial artists. When the cops can't find any answers, Steve decides to kickbox his way to savage justice. No thug on the streets is safe!
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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A Case of Honor
Overview: A Case of Honor is a 1991 film directed by Eddie Romero. After escaping from a Vietnamese pow camp where they had suffered for five years, five American soldiers attempt to get out of the country before being spotted by Russian and Vietnamese
Genres: War Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Second Chances
Overview: Two lovers, who are oceans apart, discover that distance can either make the heart grow fonder or render it numb with grief.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1995-08-09
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Triple Impact
Overview: Three experts in different styles of combat must join forces when they're hired to go to the jungles of Asia and find and retrieve a priceless artifact, the golden head of Buddha. A team of evil mercs wants to get to the head first.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-02
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Raiders of the Sun
Overview: Bloodthirsty factions rule the barren earth. It's the 21st Century and a biological disaster has ruined the planet. Here, in a world where gunpowder is more valuable than gold, a few hundred survivors wage the final conflict for power and control. Yet among them rises a new warrior, destined to shape the aeons which will follow -- a man who stops at nothing to achieve his ends, and for whom courage is the only commodity
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-24
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Crazy Platoon
Overview: The members of the group are sent to Vietnam. The war between North and South is still in full swing.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1987-12-25
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Jailbreak 1958
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Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-05-02
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Slash
Overview: Peter Harris and Major Scott team up together to save the country form a communist uprising.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Sudden Thunder
Overview: A Miami cop learns that her father, who was the sheriff of her small hometown, has been murdered by an armed gang that has taken over the town. She brings four of her Miami cop friends to help clean out the town.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-23
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Dirty Blue Vengeful Tropical Night
Overview: This suspense action film stars Nakajima Hiromi from the TV drama "In the Name of Love" and is directed by Kanazawa Katsuji from the "Ten Yakuza Warriors" series. A peaceful family is attacked and everyone is shot to death except for the daughter. In fact, the father is involved with an international organ trafficking ring, and the attack was intended to silence him. With the help of a Japanese reporter, the daughter vows to take revenge on the ring.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-06
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Born on the Fourth of July
Overview: Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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The House of Pleasure
Overview: Lord Gregory Hutton takes his beautiful young wife Eleanore on a business trip to the Far East for their honeymoon. They stay at the house of Lin, a young local owner of a silk farm and fashion factory whose father only recently died. Lady Eleanor finds herself attracted to Lin and soon is tempted by his advances. But it is not all as it seems. Lord Gregory seems more and more indifferent, and Lady Eleanor starts to get confused. Money is in the game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-09-20
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Blood Ring
Overview: Max, a prize boxer who has developed a drinking habit after his girlfriend Susan left him, gets involved in dirty business once she asks him to help her find her missing husband.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-23
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Apocalypse Now
Overview: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-19
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Night of the Missing
Overview: Set on a stormy night on Christmas Eve, a small town female sheriff who secretly is a serial killer gets a visit from a mysterious woman who tells four bizarre stories.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-30
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Terminal Virus
Overview: It has been 23 years since a world war during which combatants unleashed a lab-created virus that has made life no fun at all. Civilization has broken down into forcibly celibate, warring male and female tribes. Any co mingling, even rape, is punished by both sides with summary execution, for victim and perpetrator alike. A paramilitary fanatic on a vague religious mission leads his gunmen to massacre a peaceful scientific community where men and women committed the blasphemy of co-ed habitation.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Death Bond
Overview: A professional killer working for corrupt Naval officials travels to Los Angeles where he finds himself double crossed and targeted for death.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Heroes for Hire
Overview: Miami 1980, a doctor transplants a metal object into a patients arm. He tells him to go home and relax, but soon the patient kills the doctor. One year later, Prof. Arlington is kidnapped by thugs and taken to a secret location. Awesome action ensues.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Angel of Destruction
Overview: Undercover cop Jo Alwood is out to avenge her sisters death at the hands of a serial killer.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Dune Warriors
Overview: After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave enough to fight back; she bands together five warriors to save her town and their precious water
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-18
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Spyder
Overview: A rich businessman hires a team of vietnam vets to get his son out of Vietnam, but this group of mercenaries don't plan to go in Vietnam, they just want the money. They make a mistake by killing policeman "Brad Spyder"'s partner, and now he only wants REVENGE!
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-08
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Future Hunters
Overview: A man from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to prevent the coming nuclear holocaust and enlists the help of a young couple.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Narco Dollar
Overview: Drug enforcement officer Mark Stevens busts dealer Jack Kinney which in turn brings down supplier Vinnie Esteban. Both Stevens and Esteban find themselves up against Columbian drug king Domingo Mortera.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Eye of the Eagle
Overview: "The Lost Command," a bunch of notorious renegades, terrorize South Vietnam, forcing Sgt. Zack Skinner, HQ's best man to hunt down the Command to stop its killing spree.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Live by the Fist
Overview: A man is unjustly convicted of a brutal crime. In prison he must fight for survival, justice and freedom.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-07
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Saigon Commandos
Overview: A series of drug-related murders haunt Saigon. Ex-Green Beret Mark Stryker and his MP's must find the culprits. With the help of Jean Lassiter, a nosey reporter covering the crime beat, Stryker uncovers the involvement of corrupt politicians in the heroin trade and in the killings. But before he can pin them down, Stryker is framed for the murder of his commanding officer and now he must clear his name, free Lassiter from her captors, and stop his men from carrying out their own kind of vengeance before it is too late.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Fast Gun
Overview: CIA Colonel Harper's men are robbing military armories in order to supply South American rebels. They hide near Granite Lake, a small town policed by sheriff Jack Steiger. When colonel's men let loose on the town, Jack must stop them.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Silk
Overview: Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-01
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Platoon
Overview: As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-19
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Ninja Warriors
Overview: Steve is a Ninja. He's been called in by the police to help them in their investigations. He's to work with Kevin, a police lieutentant. They are investigating the break-in at the Federal Research Institute, where despite heavy security, 7 Ninja warriors manage to steal a vital document. Well pleased with their night's work, they return to their master, Kurodo, who finds they only have a half of the information they need. The police capatain wants results. Kevin suspects that a Japanese Garden he visited once with Steve could be the headquarters of Kurodo and his Ninja's and goes in search of proof. He's caught spying and is tortured and killed. After the disappearance of Kevin, Steve opens his Ninja box. He breaks the seal of his Katana and starts the Mantra. He attacks the Japanese Garden, eliminates the Ninja warriors and after recovering the documents and blowing up the laboratory, finally meets Kurodo, there can only be one victor...
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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Deadringer
Overview: A story of mistaken identity... A story of love, lust and power... A story of guns, and men who use them...
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Get the Terrorists
Overview: An anti-American terrorist group calling themselves People For Freedom who set about blowing up and shooting various folks for reasons best known to themselves.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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After Death
Overview: A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a group of mercenaries and they meet up with some other researchers. They raise the dead again and all hell breaks loose
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-07-27
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Fighting Spirit
Overview: Billy is a young fighter whose sister Judith was hurt after a near gang rape. When he learns she must have surgery, crime boss Russell has Billy compete in illegal street fights. When Billy learns he may get killed, he quits but is later killed by Russell and his men, who were the ones responsible for Judith's accident. After his death, Billy must rely on one man to seek revenge for him: his best friend David. However, David must train in the martial arts before he can seek revenge. Davidy seeks guidance from the ghost of Billy as well as Billy's trainer and ally, Murphy.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-27
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Eternal Fist
Overview: In a post-apocalyptic world, a man helps a beautiful young girl get revenge against a roving gang of renegades that destroyed her village.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-25
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Equalizer 2000
Overview: In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-04
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