Mel Novak

Mel Novak

出生 : 1950-06-16, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

略歴

A native of Pittsburgh, Mel was an outstanding athlete in several sports. He passed up 60 football scholarship offers and signed a pro baseball contract with the Pirates. His career was cut short by a massive rotator cuff injury. Mel has starred or co-starred in over 60 movies and he does his own fighting and stunts. He shot and fought Bruce Lee to the death, (GAME OF DEATH), beat up Steve McQueen (Tom Horn), and dueled Yul Brynner (THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR). Mel set up Chuck Norris to be hit, but Norris got him later (EYE FOR AN EYE). Born in Pittsburgh to Serbian parents as Milan Mrdjenovich (Serbian: Милан Мрђеновић, Milan Mrđenović), Novak made his film debut in 1974, appearing in two blaxploitation films.

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参加作品

The Beast Beneath
Mayor Reid
A record Earthquake rocks a small, resort town after a 2000 year old prehistoric blood thirsty beast is unleashed to feast on the local community. It’s up to Aaron and his brilliant scientist sister to crack the case and put a stop to the mayhem before time runs out, all while the cunning  town Mayor George Reid tries to cover up the monster’s bloody tracks.
Hell of the Screaming Undead
Governor Patrick Adams
1988: After an accident at a research lab, the population of Los Angeles is mutating into ferocious zombies eager to feed on the living. Two women take refuge in a museum but fall right into the hands of a pair of homicidal ex-convicts, who kidnap and torment the women as the undead hoard grows larger and stronger.
Ash and Bone
Bartender Louie
The film follows a rebellious teen named Cassie Vanderbilt, whose wild streak escalates as her caring father Lucas decides to take her and his new wife Sarah out of the city for some bonding and quality time together. But after Cassie crosses the infamous McKinley family, it becomes clear that sometimes danger lies hidden in the weeds, ready to strike at any moment.
5 To Die
Paul McCoy
Adrian McCoy - a washed up TV Investigator, decides to retire after one last job. He takes a three man crew, a camera and a script. Once they arrive at the location they find far more than what they initially bargained for.
Realm of Shadows
Bishop Lucian
Enter a world of mystery, possession and shadows in an anthology of short horror themed tales woven into a full length feature presentation.
The Last American Horror Show: Volume II
Moses
Double the tales and double the fright! "Killer" Callahan sits on death row when a trustee offers some escapism through disturbing stories.
The Paradise Motel
Raymond Taylor
A battered wife on the run searching for paradise finds that paradise isn't always. Nothing is as it seems.
Doll Killer 2
Dr. Krueger
15 years after the original events, Doll Restoration artist Stephanie is followed by Charlie Crandall to her new home in Southern California for a final game of cat and mouse.
Ebola Rex
General Davis
A captive Tyrannosaurus Rex is injected with the Ebola Virus by a crazed protester and escapes a lab to wreak havoc in Southern California. It's up to an fearless General and a obsessed, renegade Soldier to stop it.
サメデター
Robert Clouse Williamson
The bodies of beach goers begin washing ashore during the grand opening of a new resort with dire results.
Ebola Rex Versus Murder Hornets
Lieutenant Gallagher
The diseased Dinosaur battles to the death with the Murder Hornets during a zombie outbreak that is hit by several "firenados" containing flaming spiders.
Zombi VIII: Urban Decay
Governor Hadley
When the body of a dead scientist, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere of a grimy urban wasteland.
Rattlers 2
Commissioner Lewis
A series of fatal rattlesnake attacks in the California desert re-opens an investigation that began 45 years ago.
Arachnado
Lieutenant Gallagher
When a freak cyclone swamps Los Angeles, millions of poisonous spiders terrorize the city. .
Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors
Self
A look back at the grindhouse horrors of the 70s and 80s.
Tales for the Campfire 3
Dr. Challis 'The Bitter Half'
A group of friends Gather 'round the Campfire one last time for five all new tales of terror.
Eternal Code
Mr. Pomeroy
A researcher's family is kidnapped after she leads efforts to withdraw her company from a collaboration. With everything on the line, only her teenage daughter can save the family with help from a suicidal veteran and a prostitute.
Enter the Samurai: The Making of Samurai Cop 2
Self
Enter the Samurai is a documentary film which follows the making of the feature film "Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance". It follows the film crew and artists as they deal with clashes of generations, taste and approach to sanity while attempting to complete production of the film.
RoboWoman
Dr. Michaels
On her last day at a temp agency, Vivica Stevens is attacked, beaten and left for dead by a co-worker and his friends. Through the use of futuristic “cybernetic” upgrades, she tracks down her assailants to execute bloody revenge.
Tales of Frankenstein
Dr. Mortality
An anthology featuring four tales inspired by the Frankenstein legend.
Syndicate Smasher
Milan
A group of mercenaries hired as contract killers are hunted down by the Mafia, the Yakuza, the Russian Mob, and the Tongs all at once.
An Hour To Kill
Mr. Kinski
Two assassins-for-hire have an hour to kill (so to speak) before their next hit. To help pass the time, they entertain themselves by regaling horror stories to one another. With bizarre titles such as "Valkyrie's Bunker" "Assacre" and "Hog Hunters" - which hit-man's story will be deemed most disturbing when all is said and done?
Nemesis 5: The New Model
Red Army Hammerhead Leader
It is the year 2077 and terrorist organization known as The Red Army Hammerheads now dominate the Earth. The fate of humanity now rests in the hands of The New Model, Ari Frost. Trained under the wing of Alex Rain, she must form an army of Cyborg Humans to take down the regime and regain control. After all, 86.5% is still considered human.
Toxic Tutu
Producer
Follow Mark Torgl star of 1984's The Toxic Avenger who played "Melvin The Mopboy" and transforms into Toxie, as he attends the Monster Convention circuit for the first time. Discover the convention world through Torgl's eyes, and learn a deep dark secret that has kept Torgl in hiding for 30 years.
Toxic Tutu
Self
Follow Mark Torgl star of 1984's The Toxic Avenger who played "Melvin The Mopboy" and transforms into Toxie, as he attends the Monster Convention circuit for the first time. Discover the convention world through Torgl's eyes, and learn a deep dark secret that has kept Torgl in hiding for 30 years.
Steve McQueen: American Icon
Self
Christian documentary on the life of Steve McQueen.
Holy Terror
Father Murphy
Believing their deceased son isn't at peace, Molly and Tom ask a medium to make contact. But after they invite a vengeful demon to cross over, the couple must enlist the help of a disgraced priest to attempt a dangerous exorcism.
Check Point
The Reverend
Port City North Carolina: During a routine camp out, a local vagrant discovers plans for an invasion in America. When he tries to notify the local Sheriff about his discovery, the Sheriff dismisses his claims and has him locked up for loitering. When the Sheriff notices odd interactions with other towns folk he begins to look into the vagrants' claim of a sleeper cell living amongst the locals within this small town. After evidence of a beheading is exposed, others begin to fear that the insurgents attack on hometown USA. Questions and tempers begin to rise. Why this little beach community with it's Norman Rockwell way of life? A town where everyone knows one another... or so they thought. When the truth is blind and justice seems lost, It will take an army of five unlikely heroes banding together to infiltrate the insurgents and foil their invasion plans.
Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance
Cutter
25 years later after the events of Samurai Cop (1991), Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall to solve a series of assassinations being committed by a secret group of female vigilante killers.
Drifter TKD
Thomas Tyler
Jesse Tyler, a martial arts enthusiast who lives in Los Angeles, California, and enjoys success in local karate competitions, faces turmoil in his life as a young business executive. The only child in a wealthy family, he has always been pressured to succeed in every aspect of his life.
GiAnts
Executive Producer
Immensely successful Professor Jonathan Caine has come out with a new book about his favorite subject, ants. He is known and respected all over the world but to his beautiful daughter, radio personality, Audrey Caine, he is an absentee parent. Nevertheless, Caine tries to heal the break between him and his daughter only to be called away to give another lecture on ants to a secretive multi-national corporation, Niles Industries, hidden in the Colorado wilderness. Meanwhile, his daughter, Audrey, is worried more than she’d like to admit. But when a giant ant escapes so does Caine. The giant ant sends out a sonic signal that travels across the four corners of the world and suddenly giant ants are appearing everywhere!
GiAnts
Jonathan Caine
Immensely successful Professor Jonathan Caine has come out with a new book about his favorite subject, ants. He is known and respected all over the world but to his beautiful daughter, radio personality, Audrey Caine, he is an absentee parent. Nevertheless, Caine tries to heal the break between him and his daughter only to be called away to give another lecture on ants to a secretive multi-national corporation, Niles Industries, hidden in the Colorado wilderness. Meanwhile, his daughter, Audrey, is worried more than she’d like to admit. But when a giant ant escapes so does Caine. The giant ant sends out a sonic signal that travels across the four corners of the world and suddenly giant ants are appearing everywhere!
Big Guns
Larry Armstrong
The fun-loving, easy-going, 60- to 75-year-old Senior Softball team "Kids At Heart" suddenly decide to go for their secret dream -- win the World Series (BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!) Renaming themselves "Big Guns", they get serious and play hard, maybe a little too hard. Our sweet guys suddenly disappear! The joking stops! Madcap disasters strike the team! Illegal bats and booze, ringers and wild women bring out the worst in them! Finally even wise old guys think twice as they rediscover that love and their friendships are more important than winning.
Vampire Assassin
Associate Producer
Martial artist Ron Hall stars in this dark vampire thriller reminiscent of BLADE. Ambitious cop Derek (Hall) is dogged by a phobia that is unfortunate in his line of work. Having witnessed his father's murder as a young child, he is deathly afraid of blood, but when he takes the law into his own hands to catch underworld counterfeiter Gustoff Slovak, he is forced to face his fear. The operation blows up in his face, resulting in a massacre that leaves Derek the only one of his team to survive. Derek reaches the shocking conclusion that Slovak is actually a vampire, and joins forces with the last in a long line of vampire hunters, Master Kao, who agrees to train Derek in his ancient art. However, in order to combat Slovak--whose past intersects with Derek's own in disturbing ways--Derek must become that which he hates the most: a vampire.
Vampire Assassin
Gustoff Slovak
Martial artist Ron Hall stars in this dark vampire thriller reminiscent of BLADE. Ambitious cop Derek (Hall) is dogged by a phobia that is unfortunate in his line of work. Having witnessed his father's murder as a young child, he is deathly afraid of blood, but when he takes the law into his own hands to catch underworld counterfeiter Gustoff Slovak, he is forced to face his fear. The operation blows up in his face, resulting in a massacre that leaves Derek the only one of his team to survive. Derek reaches the shocking conclusion that Slovak is actually a vampire, and joins forces with the last in a long line of vampire hunters, Master Kao, who agrees to train Derek in his ancient art. However, in order to combat Slovak--whose past intersects with Derek's own in disturbing ways--Derek must become that which he hates the most: a vampire.
SWAT: Warhead One
Associate Producer
When a powerful nuclear weapon mysteriously disappears, putting in risk all Los Angeles' population, only a SWAT team is prepared to fight against the terrorists leaded by the cruel Peter Chiang, one of the most dangerous men of the planet.
SWAT: Warhead One
Dick Danvers
When a powerful nuclear weapon mysteriously disappears, putting in risk all Los Angeles' population, only a SWAT team is prepared to fight against the terrorists leaded by the cruel Peter Chiang, one of the most dangerous men of the planet.
エアフォース
Co-Executive Producer
テロリストに拉致された大統領を救出するため、戦闘機乗りたちが活躍するスカイ・アクション。アクション・ファンのみならず航空機ファンも唸らせる空撮シーン。主演はオリヴィエ・グルナー。
エアフォース
President Jonathan Caine
テロリストに拉致された大統領を救出するため、戦闘機乗りたちが活躍するスカイ・アクション。アクション・ファンのみならず航空機ファンも唸らせる空撮シーン。主演はオリヴィエ・グルナー。
Moonbase
Guard
The most dangerous criminals in the universe escape from the Off-World Penitentiary and stow away to the quiet Moonbase Waste Disposal Plant. Hidden beneath the lunar surface lies an arsenal of nuclear warheads- the inmates' passport home to earth. Moonbase Commander John Russell launches a desperate fight to save his crew from a force capable of laying waste to an entire planet.
Pocket Ninjas
Mr. Kaufman
Somewhere in New Jersey, a group of masked rollerblading children "save the universe" by training to fight the evil Cobra Khan through a series of action-packed montages. Along the way they hypothesize some slapstick hijinks in a balloon factory, and save the day through a hypothetical Sonic Virtual Reality battle. A real treat!
Future War
Otis - SWAT Team
A runaway human slave from Earth's future escapes to the present day.
Dear God
Sidewalk minister
A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter office, he starts a Good Samaritan con by answering letters written to God. His seemingly virtuous work inspires his co-workers to do the same, but their good deeds are frowned upon by the postmaster general—and the cops.
Direct Hit
Kovar
After informing his CIA handlers that his next hit will be his last, John Hatch discovers that his target isn't a criminal at all. Refusing to take the woman out, Hatch instead takes it upon himself to protect her and expose the web of corruption at work.
Exit to Eden
Walker's Henchman
Elliot is going to the island of Eden to live out his submissive fantasies, but inadvertently photographs diamond smugglers at work. Smugglers, and detectives, follow him to the island, where they try to retrieve the film. Elliot begins falling in love with Lisa, the head mistress of the island, and Lisa must evaluate her feelings about Elliot and her own motivations.
Expert Weapon
Milier
While on death row for killing a policeman, small-time criminal Adam (Ian Jacklin) is sprung from his cell and asked to join a covert government organization that will shape him into a killing machine. He is trained by the group's ruthless leader Janson (Sam J. Jones), and is aided by the group's martial arts master Miller (Mel Novak)) and the group's weapons freak expert Magnet (Joe Estevez). Together they turn out Adam code named the 'Expert Weapon'. But when Adam decides to leave his life of crime, he learns that leaving the group is his real death sentence.
Street Wars
Jesse Amos
A young man takes over as the head of a crack dealing outfit after his brother, the gang's leader, is murdered.
Capital Punishment
Mason Dover
Project K.I.C.K was a drug given to cattle to make them grow quicker, if the meat is eaten from these cattle it has horrible side effects. James is a martial artist hired by the DEA to find to a dealer his former Master who is trying to start selling the drug in an American. But little does James know not is what it seems.
Family Reunion
Tom Andrews
Tom Andrews, his wife Kathy, their two children & Tom's Father Henry are all driving to a town called Silversprings on Christmas Eve to visit relatives. On the way, they decide to stop at a ghost town called Sutterville which by a strange coincidence Tom has had nightmares about every year around Christmas for his whole life. Tom's father is wary & begs them not to go; however Tom's car develops a mind of it's own & takes them there only to break down so that they can't leave. Meanwhile a man arrested for vagrancy by local police is identified as Clarence McCoughlin who supposedly died in Sutterville 40 years ago, not to mention he seems to have some sort of demonic power. As the Andrews family explore the town a feeling of unease starts to takeover, Clarence escapes jail & heads back to Sutterville for a sinister family reunion...
Sword of Heaven
Major Dirk St. Jones
A Japanese policeman in Los Angeles uses an ancient magic sword to battle killers and an extortion ring.
Force of Darkness
Conrad
A spree killer in 1980s San Francisco, suffering from a multiple personality disorder, is actually possessed by a demonic force which drives him to kill.
An Eye for an Eye
Tony Montoya
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
An Eye for an Eye
Associate Producer
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
Force: Five
The Assassin
A martial-arts expert leads a team of fellow martial artists to rescue a senator's daughter from an island ruled by the evil leader of a fanatical religious cult.
Lovely But Deadly
Warren Lang
A cheerleader goes undercover to fight drug dealers because her brother OD'd and her fellow cheerleaders are hooked.
トム・ホーン
Corbett's Bodyguard
「荒野の七人」「ネバダ・スミス」などでスクリーンを飾り多くのファンを魅了した大スター、スティーブ・マックィーン主演による西部劇。開拓時代末期の実在の人物“トム・ホーン”をモデルに、その波乱に満ちた半生を綴る異色作。本作の後、間もなく亡くなったマックィーンの、最後の西部劇となった。 西部開拓時代末期のワイオミング州。大牧場主たちに家畜探偵として雇われたトム・ホーンは、牛泥棒たちを次々に退治してゆく。だが、容赦ないホーンのやり方に恐れを抱き始めた人々は、残酷な仕打ちを仕掛けて彼を葬り去ろうとする。
A Force of One
The Announcer
Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.
Cat in the Cage
Ralph Desmond
A young man returns to his rich family's estate after a stay in a mental hospital. He finds that his father has married his deceased wife's nurse, who is secretly plotting with her lover
ブルース・リー 死亡遊戯
Stick
ドクター・ランド率いる巨大国際シンジケート組織は有能なスポーツ選手や俳優などを終身契約にし暴利をあげていた。ドクター・ランドは、世界的なアクション映画スター、ビリー・ローと、彼の恋人であり歌手でもあるアン・モリスに終身契約を迫が、かたくなに契約を拒否する。ついにしびれを切らしたランドはビリーを暗殺するように命じ、撮影中にビリーは顔を撃たれる。
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
Mendosa
An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy an unspecific target in that country.
The Ultimate Warrior
Lippert
Only a few people still live in New York in 2012. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.
Virginia Hill
Stick
The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster Bugsy Siegel.
Truck Turner
Doctor
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
Black Belt Jones
Blue Eyes
Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school is run by a kindly old coot named Pops ,played by Scatman Crothers. His gambling debts, however, bring the local thug, Pinky, down on him. To make matters worse, Pinky is then hired by some white thugs who want to get a hold of the property Pops' school occupies so they can build a shopping mall. When things get heavy, Black Belt Jones leaps into action. Only he's not alone. Pops' daughter, Sidney, shows up to lend a hand, proving herself every bit as agile and powerful a martial artist as Jones.
The Love-Ins
Intern Smith
A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his position in solidarity with two expelled hippie students.
RoboWoman 2
Dr. Michaels
Vivica teams up with two female colleges to clean up the streets once and for all, with the help of her new cybernetic upgrades.
Ghosthouse
Mel
Based on the 1988 cult-classic by Director Umberto Lenzi (Cannibal Ferox, Spasmo), this 2018 remake follows a group of college kids who trace the origins of a mysterious television ...  »