Michael Ballew
Also Known As: Mike Ballew, Wesley Micheal Ballew, Wesley Micheal “Mike” Ballew
Biography: Michael Ballew was an American actor, stuntman and transportation coordinator. He began playing football as a high school freshman after his family moved to Leavenworth, Washington, and he received a partial football scholarship to Shoreline Community College in Seattle. After junior college, he transferred to the University of Washington to study sociology. After college, he played as a defensive end for the Hagerstown Bears, a minor league team in Maryland, for two seasons. He was signed to the Chicago Bears in 1973, and played half a season with the team before being cut. He moved to Newport Beach and was signed to the Southern California Sun of the now-defunct World Football League in 1974. His football career ended in 1976, when the Los Angeles Rams cut him during training camp. Southern California Sun coach Tom Fears, who worked as a technical adviser on football movies, gave Ballew his first break in the movie industry. He also found work through his friend Lorenzo Lamas, and was manager of his GTO class automobile racing team until 1989. He died on October 22, 2023 after a battle with progressive supranuclear palsy.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, USA
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Birthday: July 16, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 22, 2023
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North Dallas Forty
Overview: A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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Midnight Man
Overview: When the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities, a killer starts killing the cops forcing a martial-arts officer to fight back.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-09
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Mask of Death
Overview: While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the professional killer Lyle Mason, who dies in a car crash shortly thereafter. The FBI persuades McKenna to undergo facial surgery and take the place of Lyle Mason in order to find Dallio and a valuable microchip.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Loving Deadly
Overview: A guy is smuggling babies across the border, and he gets busted. When he's in jail, his crime boss wants to keep him happy, so they arrange conjugal visits with a hooker, and they fall in love, then plot to get back at the crime boss, and they accidentally kill the crime boss's identical twin brother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Snake Eater
Overview: The Snake Eaters are an elite division of the Marines especially trained for search and destroy missions. This actioner chronicles the exploits of one of them who has become a cop. Known as a tough loner, he returns to find the band of backwoods bad-guys who killed his parents and abducted his sister.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-22
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Suburban Commando
Overview: Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like.
Genres: Action Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Ulterior Motives
Overview: A private eye becomes the bodyguard of a beautiful reporter being pursued by a Japanese mob.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-06
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