Bruce Baron
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| Born | November 15, 1950 New York |
| Occupation | Film actor |
Bruce P. Baron, is an American movie actor born in New York, November 15, 1950. Cornell University, B.A. '71. 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 (Teddy Chiu). 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 and 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. He even played 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 gave up on acting and went into business, in 1990.
More than a decade later Baron took issue online with 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 hack HK film producers by unattributed fan-sites. He speculated that unscrupulous HK movie producers were using the anonymity of the web to promote themselves and attempting to legitimize their execrable films by launching genre tribute sites to themselves under pseudonyms. Not least, in hope of selling cds of the atrocious chop suey kung fu-ies they had made, over two decades earlier.
Asked about the brouhaha in the blogosphere, Baron said: "They [certain HK producers] were trading their crap, on my name, in libel." "They cheated us 20 years ago, and I won't watch silently them promoting the 'films' and themselves, 20 yrs later, online, and over my [un] dead body". ..."It's a bit much, isn't it?" "I thought my so-called 'film career' was well behind me, and 2 decades later, along come these ancient sleaze-bags, trying to breathe second life into their old con on the inter-webs, and drag my name into it, deceased, promotionally. No, thanks."
