Mel Novak

Mel Novak

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

История

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.

Профиль

Mel Novak
Mel Novak
Mel Novak

Фильмы

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.
Пепел и кость
Bartender Louie
Кэсси имеет весьма скверный характер, плюс ко всему прочему она настоящая бунтарка, которая пытается навязать всему миру борьбу с самой собой. У нее новая мачеха, с которой у молодой девушки не складываются отношения. Отец совершенно не понимает, как ему поступать в подобной ситуации. Он в конечном итоге принимает решение забрать из города дочь и свою новую супругу, для того чтобы провести побольше времени вместе и качественно сблизиться. Однако он и понятия не имел, что его план потерпит фиаско.
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.
Apex Predators
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.
Код бессмертия
Mr. Pomeroy
Крупная научно-исследовательская компания совершает революционный прорыв в области генетики, разработав новую технологию вечной жизни и переноса разума в новое тело. Когда Бриджит, глава компании, осознает весь риск этого изобретения, она хочет свернуть работу над ним. Это приводит к череде опасных последствий и к сопротивлению богатейших людей планеты, которые хотят присвоить себе новый прототип.
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.
Истории о Франкенштейне
Dr. Mortality
Четыре захватывающих истории о людях, которые были вдохновлены Виктором Франкенштейном.
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.
Час до убийства
Mr. Kinski
Паре киллеров - новичку и профессионалу, нужно убить час до следующего заказа. Чтобы он прошел быстрее, они начинают рассказывать друг другу жуткие истории, которые с ними случались.
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.
Контрольная точка
The Reverend
Бродяга случайно обнаруживает замаскированную террористическую ячейку в небольшом городке, где все знают друг друга (или думают, что знают). Поскольку помощи при угрозе полномасштабного террористического вторжения ждать неоткуда, команда «случайных героев» должна объединиться, чтобы бороться и защитить свою страну от врага самостоятельно.
Полицейский-самурай 2: Смертельная месть
Cutter
Ровно 25 лет в городе произошла череда странных и загадочных убийств, расследовать которые так и не удалось. Но теперь, спустя столько лет, полицейский Фрэнк Вашингтон решает возобновить те самые расследования, использовать имеющиеся данные и попробовать все-таки раскрыть загадочные дела. Помогать в расследовании Фрэнку будет его старый напарник Джо Маршал. Друзья уверенны, что к делу каким-то образом причастны местные власти, полицейские и воры, вышедшие накануне на свободу.
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.
Power Elite
Co-Executive Producer
The President of the United States, Jonathan Caine, prepares to sign a treaty banning chemical weapons. This signature, hoped for many years, is eagerly awaited. However, this gesture for peace does not delight everyone. An unknown terrorist organization appears suddenly. These criminals want to sabotage the treaty. As a warning, they strike a great blow by removing the right arm of Caine and destroying Air Force One, the plane reserved for the President.
Power Elite
President Jonathan Caine
The President of the United States, Jonathan Caine, prepares to sign a treaty banning chemical weapons. This signature, hoped for many years, is eagerly awaited. However, this gesture for peace does not delight everyone. An unknown terrorist organization appears suddenly. These criminals want to sabotage the treaty. As a warning, they strike a great blow by removing the right arm of Caine and destroying Air Force One, the plane reserved for the President.
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!
Война будущего
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.
Выход к Раю
Walker's Henchman
Профессиональный фотограф, страдающий боязнью перед реальными сексуальными контактами, отправляется на остров Эдем, где расположена частная клиника, более напоминающая бордель. Перед этим в аэропорту он случайно сфотографировал некоего Омара, разыскиваемого полицей всего мира. Детективы Шейла и Фред отправляются за ним под видом пациентов, надеясь, что Омар приедет туда, чтобы ликвидировать неосторожного фотографа вместе с единственным в мире снимком Омара.
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.
Высшая мера
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.
Око за око
Tony Montoya
После гибели своего напарника полицейский из отдела по борьбе с наркотиками Шон Кейн вынужден уйти в отставку. Но когда убивают тележурналистку Линду, подругу его погибшего товарища, Кейн начинает собственное расследование. Он выясняет, что убийства имеют прямое отношение к тайным операциям с наркотиками, которые проводят гонконгские триады. Узнав, что в криминальном бизнесе замешаны и некоторые из его коллег-полицейских, Кейн берет правосудие в свои руки и решает сам, в одиночку, разобраться с преступниками…
Око за око
Associate Producer
После гибели своего напарника полицейский из отдела по борьбе с наркотиками Шон Кейн вынужден уйти в отставку. Но когда убивают тележурналистку Линду, подругу его погибшего товарища, Кейн начинает собственное расследование. Он выясняет, что убийства имеют прямое отношение к тайным операциям с наркотиками, которые проводят гонконгские триады. Узнав, что в криминальном бизнесе замешаны и некоторые из его коллег-полицейских, Кейн берет правосудие в свои руки и решает сам, в одиночку, разобраться с преступниками…
Сила пятерых
The Assassin
Для уничтожения жестокой культовой секты, расположенной на неприступном острове, из отчаянных пятерых бойцов, в совершенстве владеющих искусством рукопашного боя, формируется спецподразделение.
Прекрасная, но опасная
Warren Lang
Девушка решила заняться расследованием по поводу распространения наркотиков. Следы привели в школу где учился ее брат. В этом как-то замешаны чирлидерши местной школьной команды по футболу.
Том Хорн
Corbett's Bodyguard
Появившись в Вайоминге в 1900 году, Том Хорн уже был легендарной личностью. Имя героя было связано с целой вереницей разнообразных подвигов, включая знаменитую поимку великого вождя апачей - Джеронимо. Это был поразительно разносторонний человек, находивший своим удивительным талантам совершенно неожиданные применения: он добывал серебро и прокладывал железные дороги, возил дилижансы и выигрывал чемпионаты по родео, работал агентом Пинкертона и служил в отряде будущего президента США Рузвельта.
Сила одиночки
The Announcer
В маленьком калифорнийском городке орудует банда тоговцев наркотиками. Помогать полицейским в уничтожении мафии начинает чемпион по каратэ Мэт Лонган. У него к бандитам особый счет: один из преступников убил приемного сына и ученика Логана. Теперь этот бандит — противник Мэта на ринге. А вне ринга — это опаснейший враг полицейских, использующий в борьбе запрещенные приемы.
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
Игра смерти
Stick
Преступный синдикат зловещего доктора Лэнда контролирует гонконгский шоу-бизнес: все артисты обязаны отчислять мафии немалые суммы со всех своих доходов. Молодой актер Билли Ло вступает в борьбу с преступным синдикатом.
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.
Последний воин
Lippert
В недалеком будущем почти все население Земли погибает от страшной эпидемии, и теперь в разрушенных мегаполисах занимаются грабежом воюющие друг с другом банды. Барон, глава одного из выживших кланов, создает на руинах Нью-Йорка небольшое укрепленное поселение. И один из его людей, ученый Кэл, находит способ на бесплодной почве вновь выращивать овощи. Однако рыскающие по округе люди бандита Кэррота пытаются прорваться в небольшой оазис, созданный Бароном, и ему приходится призвать на помощь опытного воина Карсона...
История Вирджинии Хилл
Stick
Забавный фильм для домохозяек, про профессиональных бандюганов... ну, не совсем так впрямую - а про тяжёлую судьбину подружек профессиональных бандюганов..
Грузовик Тёрнер
Doctor
Трак Тернер, бывший профессиональный футболист, который становится охотником за головами (вместе со своим партнером Джерри), разыскивает сутенера, уклоняющегося от оплаты залога, в Лос-Анджелесе, штат Калифорния. После перестрелки, где Трак должен использовать смертоносную силу, чтобы убить сутенера, Тернер становится заметным человеком и мишенью для наемных убийц.
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 ...  »