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Frank William Dux (/ ˈ d uː k s /; born April 6, 1956) is a Canadian-American martial artist and fight choreographer. According to Dux, a ninjutsu expert named Senzo Tanaka trained him as a ninja when he was a teenager.
The Secret Man: An American Warrior's Uncensored Story is a memoir by martial artist Frank Dux, published in 1996 by ReganBooks.In the book, Dux asserts he was recruited by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William J. Casey in a public toilet to work on covert missions, including destroying a fuel depot in Nicaragua and a chemical weapons plant in Iraq.
The film centers on Frank Dux (Van Damme), a United States Army Captain and ninjutsu practitioner who competes in an underground full-contact martial arts tournament called the Kumite in Hong Kong. Based on Dux's real-life claims, the film was marketed as a true story. It was one of Van Damme's first lead roles and showcased his abilities ...
Frank Dux is an U.S. Army Captain who has been trained in mixed martial arts for much of his life by sensei Senzo Tanaka. Specializing in ninjutsu, Senzo considers Dux a part of his clan and begins to train the latter for a secretive competition in Hong Kong China known as the Kumite.
While The Quest was publicized as a different work than Enter the New Dragon, Frank Dux considered that the finished film was a thinly disguised rework of the screenplay he had co-written for the former. Unbeknownst to Van Damme, he presented his early script to the Writers' Guild of America for recognition of his contributions.
Fighters' auditions took place at Frank Dux's gym and drew close to one thousand candidates. Jeff Speakman served as line reader, substituting for Jean-Claude Van Damme during the film's casting sessions but, as he was trying to make his mark in acting without flaunting his martial arts skills, he only appeared in a non-fighting bit part. [10]
Frank Dux: Improved to Good Article status by Damien Linnane . Self-nominated at 01:14, 9 February 2019 (UTC). The Secret Man created on 11 February 2019 by Damien Linnane. Self-nominated. Comment - not a review, but I'm pretty sure you only need 2 QPQs at best unless you're planning to break a record. Juxlos 22:20, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Frank Dux [114] – Canadian-American martial artist and fight choreographer who claimed to have won a secret martial arts tournament called the Kumite in 1975. His alleged victory at the Kumite served as the inspiration for the 1988 film Bloodsport starring Jean-Claude Van Damme .