William Zabka
Also Known As: Billy Zabka
Biography: William Michael "Billy" Zabka (born October 20, 1965) is an American actor, martial artist, screenwriter, and film producer. Zabka is best known for his role of Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986), and decades later reprises the role of Johnny in the Netflix series Cobra Kai (2018-), along with Ralph Macchio as Daniel. During the 1980s, Zabka appeared in the comedy movies Just One of the Guys (1985) and Back to School (1986). Zabka also co-starred on the CBS television series The Equalizer as the son of the title character (1986–89). He also played Jack, Audrey's jock boyfriend, in National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985). During the 1990s and 2000s, he acted mostly in independent films while studying to be a filmmaker. In 2003, he wrote and produced the short film Most, shot on location in the Czech Republic and Poland. Most (aka The Bridge) had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2003 and won numerous awards at prestigious film festivals, including Best of Festival at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films in 2003. In 2004, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Most in the Live Action Short Film category.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: October 20, 1965
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Gender: Male
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Dark Descent
Overview: Deep in the Mariana Sea Trench, a corporate underwater mining complex has been built - an industrial Atlantis. When an accident in a dry-dock chamber kills several miners an investigator is sent to find the cause and immediately finds out that it was not an accident. He becomes caught in the middle of a deadly conflict between the miners and the corporation, and fights to stay alive and uncover the truth.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-06
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The Karate Kid
Overview: Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, Lucille, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of high school students, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei, John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and, later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.
Genres: Action Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-22
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Epoch
Overview: Disaster strikes as a specialised team of investigators struggle to find out the truth about a strange monolith which sends out an intercontinental signal.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-24
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Hot Tub Time Machine
Overview: Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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National Lampoon's European Vacation
Overview: The Griswolds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-25
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Wild Roomies
Overview: After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the house forces him to get roommates.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Just One of the Guys
Overview: When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as a guy so well that she is soon making friends with the boys at school, including the attractive Rick, who becomes her new best friend. But her gender-swapping makes things difficult when she falls in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-26
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The Karate Kid Part II
Overview: Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-year exile. There he must confront Yukie, the love of his youth, and Sato, his former best friend turned vengeful rival. Sato is bent on a fight to the death, even if it means the destruction of their village. Daniel finds his own love in Yukia's niece, Kumiko, and his own enemy in Sato's nephew, the vicious Chozen. Now, far away from the tournaments, cheering crowds and safety of home, Daniel will face his greatest challenge ever when the cost of honor is life itself.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-18
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Smiley Face
Overview: Jane, a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats her roommate's pot-laced cupcakes and embarks on a series of misadventures all over Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Antibody
Overview: After a terrorist with an implanted nuclear detonator gets shot, a team of scientists must defuse the bomb by miniaturizing themselves and going into his bloodstream. His organism's antibodies start to mass against them.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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Python 2
Overview: A man, his business partner, and his wife are enlisted to transport an unknown object from a Russian military base, only to discover that the object is a giant, genetically-altered python.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-17
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Back to School
Overview: Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-13
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Shootfighter: Fight to the Death
Overview: Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a "shootfighter" (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-05
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Shootfighter II
Overview: In this martial-arts actioner, Miami mobsters find themselves in mortal danger after an angry police chief hires the world's most vicious fighters and uses them to launch a city-wide vendetta
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-27
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Cross
Overview: Given incredible power by an ancient Celtic Cross. Callan continues to fight evil... Now, joined by a team of weapons experts, Callan battles an unstoppable empire in Los Angeles.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-21
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Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story
Overview: The true story of treasure hunter Mel Fisher, who spent much of his life--and his fortune--hunting for sunken Spanish treasure galleons off the coast of Florida.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-15
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Hyper Sonic
Overview: In order to win $25 million, Daredevil pilots enter the worlds fastest jet race.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-22
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Gale Force
Overview: Renegade L.A. detective Sam (Williams) takes a role as a cast member in a reality TV show where he leads a quartet trying to find ten million dollars in buried cash. But Jared (Dudikoff) secretly lands his violent militia on the island in an effort to slay the cast and steal the money. And Jared is successful: Thanks to a corrupt producer, the renegade mercenaries find the cache of cash and start off with it, but Sam and his intrepid, unarmed teammates interrupt them before they can depart. An explosion-filled chase across the island winds up with the good guys trapped by the heavily armed bad guys, and it looks like the game is over for the TV show survivors. However, Mother Nature, in the guises of a hurricane and tidal wave, has other ideas.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-15
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High Voltage
Overview: After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Cake: A Wedding Story
Overview: When two star-crossed lovers, set on eloping, are forced into having a big wedding, the bride develops a plan of her own. Unfortunately, the groom is not privy to the plan. Meanwhile, family and friends start to take sides at a reception for a wedding that never took place!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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Interceptors
Overview: In the near future the US Government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained for action in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force, they are the last line of defense
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-11
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Project: Human Weapon
Overview: Griffin Michael is the only survivor of a top-secret C.I.A. program that raised five people to become superweapons—human killing machines. Griffin has been trained to use his mind as a weapon: with a small brain impulse he can move objects hundreds of times his own weight, and can kill with a single thought. Now he is about to be released from the remote secret facility where he has been raised, and unleashed on an unsuspecting world...
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Man in the Silo
Overview: Racial family conflict results in a horrific car accident that leaves Marcus Wells a successful African American executive, proud husband and father--alone, in a secret world of guilt and despair, while he cares for his wife's incapacitated grandmother. Displaced from city to farm life, Marcus faces his darkest fears, his wife's vengeful grandmother, and the truth about himself.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-09
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Python
Overview: Sleepy New Haven California is a small town with a big problem. A sixty foot slithering horror has arrived and shattered the town's tranquillity on it's path of death and destruction... Growing violent and more savage with each attack the gigantic creature soon becomes an unstoppable feeding machine raging beyond control of it's creator, leaving only the stripped bones of it's victims in it's wake.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-09
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Where Hope Grows
Overview: Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life has thrown him. Today, he mindlessly sleepwalks through his days and the challenge of raising his teenager daughter. His life is in a slow downward spiral when it is suddenly awakened and invigorated by the most unlikely person – Produce, a young-man with Down syndrome who works at the local grocery store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-06
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John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Overview: An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-01
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Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story
Overview: True story of high school hockey coach Bob Anastas. After losing two of his all-star hockey players, he gets the students to prevent more tragedies by forming Students Against Drunk Driving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-11
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The Power Within
Overview: Stan Dryer, a teen, afraid to even ask a girl to the prom, finds courage and extreme martial arts skill when he is given a ring by an old man he tried to save from a group of attackers. The ring is a mate to a ring stolen by a double dealing art thief who had been hired to steal it by a criminal mastermind who wanted it for its mystical powers.
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-24
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Ablaze
Overview: The owner of a gigantic oil refinery decides to burn the place down for insurance purposes, only to create a giant fireball that endangers the lives of a small town.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-16
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A Tiger's Tale
Overview: A young man falls for his girlfriend's mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-12
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Protect and Surf
Overview: A group of young police officers make up for the harsh realities of working on mean streets by sharing a dream house at the beach in California.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-06
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Unlawful Passage
Overview: Erotic thriller about a rich couple who hires a new sailboat captain who's unbeknown to them also a drug smuggler.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Falcon Down
Overview: U.S. Air force officer Hank Thomas attempts to expose a military cover-up after a civiian airliner crashes.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-17
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The Way of The Karate Kid
Overview: Retrospective documentary on the making of The Karate Kid (1984).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-01
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To the Ends of Time
Overview: In a mythical kingdom, a young boy must fight time for the love of his princess and the future of his land.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-21
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More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
Overview: The Oscar nominated actor best known for his role of Mr. Miyagi, left behind a painfully revealing autobiographical record of his much-too-brief time here on earth. Tracing his journey from being bed bound as a boy to the bright lights and discrimination in Hollywood. Deep inside that sweet, generous, multi-talented performer seethed an army of demons, that even alcohol and drugs couldn't mask.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-01
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Sweep the Leg
Overview: Sweep the Leg incorpoarates elements of the 1984 film The Karate Kid and features appearances by nearly the entire original cast. Martin Kove reprises his role as Sensei Kreese, and actors who played the Cobra Kai members in the 1984 film, Ron Thomas, Rob Garrison, and Tony O'Dell are also part of the cast. William Zabka, who played Johnny Lawrence in the film, directed the video. Pat E. Johnson, who was the martial arts director for the film as well as the martial arts director for Bruce Lee, worked on this video. Dennis Haskins and Liza Snyder also make an appearance. "Sweep the Leg" was also featured on Sony's MLB 08: The Show.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
Overview: The Problem Child, Jake 'El Gallo' Paul, goes up against the Baddest Man on the Planet, Mike Tyson, live from the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Katie Taylor defends her undisputed title over 10, two-minute rounds against boxing trailblazer and unified featherweight world champion Amanda 'The Real Deal' Serrano in the most anticipated rematch in women's boxing history.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-15
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Landspeed
Overview: Two teams are in a heated race for the money and the honor that comes with breaking the land speed world record.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-11
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