Billy Blanks
Nacimiento : 1955-09-01, Erie - Pennsylvania - USA
Historia
Muscular African American sports star, actor, media identity and inventor of the phenomenally popular "Tae Bo" fitness system, derived from his extensive martial arts training. Blanks was born in Eerie, Pennsylvania in 1955 amongst humble backgrounds and grew up as one of 15 children, battling dyslexia and tendon problems. However that didn't stop him from starting his martial arts training at age 14 and eventually achieving black belts in tae kwon do & several other arts, and winning numerous US martial arts tournaments.
Blanks first popped up on movie screens in the mid 1980s in tough guy parts utilizing his athletic background and grim faced looks. Films roles included Tango & Cash (1989), Driving Force (1989) and A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave (1990). Things looked up in 1991, when Blanks scored the minor role of drug addicted running back "Billy Cole" in the explosive The Last Boy Scout (1991)....and further work followed often sharing lead billing in low budget - high action fare such as Talons of the Eagle (1992), TC 2000 (1993) and Expect No Mercy (1995).
In the late 1990s, Billy's innovative and exciting "Tae Bo" workout routine swept around the world like wildfire, and propelled him into the position of one of the world's most recognizable and biggest selling fitness trainers. The remarkable Blanks continues to refine and promote his unique "Tae Bo" fitness system, and he operates the Billy Blanks World Training Center in Sherman Oaks, California.
7th Degree Black Belt Billy Blanks had one of the greatest karate fight records in the sport's long history. Blanks was a 7-time world karate champion, the first Amateur Athletic Union Champ in 1975, the 1984 Massachusetts Golden Gloves Boxing Champion, and the Tri-State Golden Gloves Champion of Champions. He was the captain of the United States Karate Team and won over 30 gold medals in international competition. He was the number 1 or number 2 rated full-contact karate fighter in the United States for almost seven straight years. His epic battles with "Nasty" Anderson are legends among martial arts fans. He posted over 300 career victories. In 1982, Billy Blanks was honored by being inducted into the Karate Hall of Fame.
Self
La fantástica historia de cómo un antiguo arte marcial, el kung fu chino, conquistó el mundo a través de los cientos de películas que fueron producidas en Hong Kong durante décadas, transformó el cine de acción occidental e inspiró el nacimiento de movimientos culturales como la blaxploitation, la música hip hop, el parkour y el cine de Wakaliwood.
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Eddie Krumble es un hombre relativamente feliz. Su trabajo consiste en aplaudir como público de programas de televisión y sitcoms. Pero un día las tornas giran y Eddie aparece delante de las cámaras en un talk show, logrando que sus 15 minutos de fama le den una vuelta completa a su vida: pierde su trabajo y su relación en ciernes con Judy, la joven de la que está enamorado.
Mr. Wilson
When three best friends are forced to fall in love in order to save their jobs, they learn that letting go is a lot harder then it seems.
Follow the number 1 ranked youth soccer team in America as they play professional youth soccer teams in the UK before returning for their final tournament together for the National State Cup Champions.
Sheriff Tom
Un grupo de hombres lobo que cambian de forma a su voluntad deciden establecerse en un pequeño pueblo en busca de una chica que según las leyendas reencarna una vez cada 2000 años. Ella es la clave para su supervivencia y todo aquel que se interponga en el camino de estas criaturas para encontrar a la joven pagarán con sus propias vidas…
Himself
Una mirada a la vida del maestro de kárate Fumio Demura muestra cómo propagó esta disciplina en occidente, ganando incontables seguidores e influenciando a Hollywood.
Self
Billy Blanks is bringing you the ultimate in cardiovascular and strength training with Tae Bo Platinum Collection. This collection mixes the best of the original Tae Bo moves, along with rejuvenated cardio routines and focused abdominal training, creating a full body workout that will get you slimming down and powering up. Put your balance, coordination, and stamina to the test while toning and strengthening through four targeted workouts.
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Jack (Adam Sandler) es un padre de familia que tiene que afrontar un arduo problema: la llegada por Navidad de su odiada hermana Jill. Por si fuera poco, lo que, en principio, iba a ser una visita de pocos días, se alarga más de lo previsto, lo que obliga a Jack y Jill a intentar limar asperezas.
Himself
This is the definitive Tae Bo workout. It brings you the best overall body workout combining cardio, sculpting and ab training for maximum fat burning. You will shed pounds, loose inches and shape your body like never before. Not to mention, you will change the way you feel about fitness forever. Known for his amazing ability to motivate, Billy is your coach. He and the crew are with you step by step, as you change your life, one kick and punch at a time.
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Billy Blanks s Tae Bo system has been helping people lose weight and look great for years and Billy has continuously incorporated new techniques into his his work-outs to keep them fresh and effective. From this development comes his signature "Cardio Bursts" routines that add an extra push to his already effective Tae Bo moves. This program will help participants kick and punch their way to leaner better bodies.
Billy Blanks
Billy Blanks: Ultimate Tae Bo 10th Anniversary Edition
Himself
Ultimate BootCamp is designed by Billy to be the fastest hour in fitness. This is the workout that ties it all together: cardio, upper-body toning, lower-body toning, and abs in one mega-workout that drives you to peak performance.
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In BASIC TRAINING BootCamp™, Billy teaches you exactly how to get started on the path to a better you. In this workout, he takes his experience from six days of REAL basic-training exercise and concentrates it into one get-you-started workout that lays the foundation for your new body, new spirit, and new life you want! BASIC TRAINING BootCamp™ focuses on the core instructional messages of Billy's new program, along with how to make the most out of your Billy Bands™ to help you get started on the right track. With Billy, you will learn how to set goals and, most of all, reach them!
Himself
In this workout, Billy takes the basics of his world-famous TAE BO(r) moves and adapts them just for kids to create a fast-moving, entertaining routine to keep them slim, strong, and active. With high-energy moves and music, Billy's brand-new workout shows youngsters that fitness is fun, while providing kids with a cardio "kick." Best of all, TAE BO KICKS(r) shows how to use your body at your own pace to stay fit and motivated for life!
Himself
Banish flab from every part of your body by taking-and keeping-it off once and for all with these rapid-fire moves, high-energy music and Billy 's uniquely effective motivation. You won't find a better total-body workout anywhere else, because he brings together all the weapons in his powerful TAE BO arsenal to help say goodbye to unsightly fat for good!
Billy Blanks
Billy Blanks Tae Bo workout video, contains strength and power workouts.
Himself
The Strength Within is an exciting new program from the Tae Bo Believers Workout series to help you firm and tone on the outside, while building a strong will on the inside.
Considered the pilates of Tae Bo, Billy Blanks: Tae Bo Flex focuses on core stability and toning exercises. As with most Tae Bo productions, this DVD promises the best results if performed with other videos in the series. Though perfect for those who want to concentrated on muscle sculpting, particularly within the confines of an apartment or otherwise small space, a more cardiovascular workout can be found in Tae Bo Advanced or the Tae Bo Ripped series.
As a seven-time Martial Arts Champion, Billy knows how to create a routine that is honest and effective with no fad diets, fancy gimmicks, or complicated machines. It's just you and Billy, bound together by the desire to get you fit, both inside and out. Now, with new moves and new music, Tae Bo Cardio is Billy's best yet, building on the basic foundational moves of Tae Bo to create a continuous cardiovascular workout that rocks.
Himself
Forearms, biceps, triceps, shoulders, chest - all these muscle groups are included in TaeBo’s Ultimate Upper Body. This workout targets each individual muscle, with a variety of different workouts. The video is geared to tone and tighten the complete upper body with an all-in-one workout, so there’s no need for anything else.
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that drives you to peak performance and give you that "Get Ripped" look.
Himself
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that drives you to peak performance and give you that "Get Ripped" look.
Himself
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that drives you to peak performance and give you that "Get Ripped" look.
Himself
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that drives you to peak performance and give you that "Get Ripped" look.
Himself
Billy Blanks, seven-time World Martial Arts Champion and the creator of the original Tae Bo, introduces Tae Bo Gold, an awesome new workout for men and women of all ages. Tae Bo Gold helps blend your hidden inner strength with moves from Tae-Kwon-Do, boxing, and dance to give you more explosive energy than ever. A hot new soundtrack motivates to help you get fit, lose weight, have fun and be strong. Join the millions of people all over the world and be part of a fitness revolution!
Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.
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Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.
Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.
Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.
Craegan
Una peligrosa banda de traficantes de droga rapta al equipo de gimnasia de los Estados Unidos. Para liberarlos, será preciso buscar a unos hombres resueltos y perfectamente entrenados para esta misión: los Seal, el cuerpos de élite de operaciones especiales del Ejército norteamericano. Mike McBride liderará un comando que deberá trasladarse a la exótica isla del Diablo, para, una vez allí, rescatar a los rehenes y eliminar a los peligrosos criminales.
Instructor
El Dr. Alex Cross es detective, psicólogo forense y escritor de éxito de novelas criminales. Cuando su sobrina Naomí desaparece, inicia su propia investigación. Siete chicas han desaparecido y se han encontrado dos cadáveres. Al lado del último de ellos ha aparecido una nota firmada 'Casanova'. Cross recibe la ayuda de Kate McTiernan, una joven doctora que ha conseguido escapar del secuestrador y puede ser la única persona capaz de identificarlo. A pesar de la reticencia inicial del detective, juntos emprenden una carrera contrarreloj para encontrar a la sobrina de Cross y descubrir la estremecedora verdad que se oculta tras su desaparición.
Niko
A martial arts expert who runs a dojo for under-privileged kids from a dilapidated warehouse is shaken down by gangsters demanding protection money. Then when one of his students is gunned down in the street by the gang, he swears revenge. Meanwhile the gang leader is setting up a death match between the best fighters and is forcing a former trainer to find a new champion by threatening his granddaughter.
Himself
The first video to combine international martial arts together with interviews and demonstrations by celebrities of Hollywood.
Justin Vanier
El Agente de Servicio Federal Justin Vanier (Billy Blanks) ha sido asignado para infiltrarse en la Academia de "Virtual Arts Academy" en busca de pruebas para demostrar que la Academia es solamente una tapadera para operaciones ilegales del ejército privado. Warbeck, es el creador de esta instalación de alta tecnología donde una generación nueva de asesinos es entrenada dentro de un escenario de realidad + virtual. El resultado es una batalla explosiva a vida o muerte.
John Portland
A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of their drug operation.
Billy Grant
La vida de Tom cambia cuando aparece Billy, un ex polícia de California que le enseña el arte del kárate.
Jason Storm
En un tiempo futuro, la seguridad se ha convertido en el arma para controlar la población. Jason y Zoey son la mejor pareja de policías. En un atentado con una bomba, Zoey muere y Jason descubrirá en la investigación que hay altos mandos involucrados, incluso él mismo terminará estando del lado de los culpables.
Billy
Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.
A weakling joins the French Foreign Legion and fights bad guys and corruption along the way. Billy Blanks is evil.
Tyler Wilson
Tyler y Reed, dos rudos policías de Nueva York y Toronto, son asignados a una peligrosa misión. Deben infiltrarse en la organización del señor Lee, un poderoso traficante de drogas y armas que está introduciendo en Canadá todo el sistema mafioso que opera en Hong Kong.
Black Thug (uncredited)
Jet viaja hasta Los Ángeles para reunirse con su viejo maestro, propietario de una pequeña tienda de hierbas medicinales. Una vez allí, descubre que su tienda ha sido asaltada y nadie sabe nada de él desde hace más de un mes. Jet comienza a investigar y descubre que su maestro ha sido atacado por un antiguo discípulo americano que está eliminando brutalmente a toda la competencia para monopolizar el mundo del Kung Fu en los Estados Unidos. Con la ayuda de la misma banda que intentó atracarlo nada más poner los pies en la ciudad y May, una china americana que se encarga de gestionar el alquiler de la tienda, Jet acudirá al rescate de su maestro antes de aceptar el reto definitivo del rival americano en un espectacular combate a muerte.
Mr. Brown
Eddy Kay es un relojero que, acosado por una serie de perturbadoras imágenes retrospectivas, se da cuenta de que su pasado encierra muchos secretos, incluso para él mismo. A medida que hurga en su pasado, Eddy comprende que los responsables de sus extranas visiones quieren acabar con su vida a toda costa, y que tiene que hacer lo que sea para llegar a conocer la verdad, aunque le cueste la vida. Sin nadie mas a quien acudir, Eddy solicita ayuda a una psiquiatra bella e inteligente, la Dra. Nolmar. Juntos, la doctora y su paciente se debatiran por resolver el misterio del pasado de Eddy, antes de que el misterio acabe con ellos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Billy Cole
Willis es un detective privado en horas bajas. Había sido uno de los más importantes agentes del servicio secreto norteamericano, pero su carrera terminó al enfrentarse con un político corrupto. Wayans, una gran estrella del fútbol, cae en desgracia al verse involucrado en un supuesto escándalo. Ambos unirán sus fuerzas para resolver sus problemas.
Khan
Hace diez años, en Bangkok (Thailandia), Sean, el hermano de Jake Donahue, tras ganar un campeonato de Kickboxing, es brutalmente asesinado por Khan. Jake, de catorce años, queda fisicamente y emocionalmente destrozado. En la actualidad, Jake es un policía secreto en Nueva York, que destaca por su valor y arriesgada dedicación en la captura de peligrosos criminales. Cuando la Interpol le envía a Thailandia a desenmascarar a una mortifera banda de delincuentes, Jake sabe que tendrá que enfrentarse a Khan. Para poder vencer en la lucha final, buscará la ayuda de Prang, el maestro del Kickboxing.
African Legionnaire
León Gualtier es un desertor en la Legión Extranjera que llega a los EE.UUy encuentra a su hermano entre la vida y la muerte y a su cuñada sin dinero para curar a su marido y mantener su hija. Para ganar el dinero necesario, Gualtier acepta para participar en peleas clandestinas.
Baskin's Fighter #1
O´Brien (Cynthia Rothrock) tendrá que ponerse las pilas de nuevo para enfrentarse a una banda de criminales que se ha hecho con el control de las calles de su pueblo. Por suerte para ella, podrá contar con la inestimable colaboración de sus inseparables ayudantes Matt (Richard Norton) y Dakota (Keith Cooke), expertos luchadores en artes marciales. En unas escenas finales trepidantes, donde se pondrán a prueba las más altas técnicas de combate de la campeona mundial de artes marciales, China O´Brien tendrá que exprimir al máximo todas sus habilidades para salvar la vida.
pool
In the near future Steve takes a job as a tow truck driver that has to battle a gang of baddies led by Nelson.
Prison Thug (uncredited)
Ray Tango y Gabriel Cash son dos detectives especializados en narcóticos que no se soportan el uno al otro. El criminal Yves Perret, furioso con ellos porque le han hecho perder dinero, les busca para matarlos. Pero son cogidos en la escena de un crimen y van a prisión con aquellos a los que habían encerrado. Ahora tendrán que confiar el uno en el otro.
Black Rose
Cuando su hermano es asesinado después de un combate de kickboxing, Jake busca venganza. Viaja a Manila para encontrar al asesino de su hermano, una vez allí encuentra un mundo de violencia y decepción hasta llegar a un dramático final.
Guard
Joe Wong (Fong) is a private investigator who goes in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam vet, a pro-boxing champ and a former cop to save her...
A dark, gritty, dystopian, western action martial arts film featuring a strong 'no-holds-barred' female protagonist portrayed by action film star Cynthia Rothrock. The plot centers around a sheriff’s sister who seeks revenge against the terrifying leader of a group of outlaws after discovering he brutally murdered her brother, his wife, and other family members in a gritty southwestern town.
Billy Blanks
A pastor bumps into an old trainer and begins boxing after his wife retires from MMA fighting.
