A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Al 'Ka Bong' 'Chonky'
Albert Leong
Birthplace:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Born:
September 30, 1952
Asian American actor & stuntman has picked up a cult fan following based around his numerous appearances in high voltage action flicks from the mid-1980s onwards. Al nearly always turns up as a bad guy with his lean muscled physique, incredible agility, amazing martial arts skills, wispy black hair, and Fu-Manchu style mustache!! Best known on-screen as "Endo" torturing 'Mel Gibson' with electric shocks in Lethal Weapon (1987), as "Uli" the chocolate bar stealing terrorist in Die Hard (1988), one of the Wing Kong members in Big Trouble in Little China (1986), as a short Genghis Khan in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and as "Minh" the henchman punching on with 'Brandon Lee' in a blazing laundry in the climax of Rapid Fire (1992). Made his directorial debut in 2000 by writing & directing the low budget Daddy Tell Me a Story (2000).
Fight Choreographer:
2002 The Scorpion King
Stunts:
1985 My Science Project
1986 The Golden Child
1988 They Live
1989 Black Rain
1990 Aftershock
1990 Why Me?
1991 Double Impact
1991 Showdown in Little Tokyo
1991 Stone Cold
1991 The Perfect Weapon
1993 Last Action Hero
1993 Martial Outlaw
1994 Deconstructing Sarah
1994 Double Dragon
1995 Mortal Kombat
1996 Escape from L.A.
1997 Raven: Return of the Black Dragons
1998 Godzilla
1998 The Replacement Killers
2001 Ghosts of Mars
2001 Planet of the Apes
2002 The Scorpion King
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.