Nathan Jung is a Chinese American actor and stuntman. Due to his height, he has usually been cast in "heavy" or "enforcer" roles.
Career
Television
Jung played the character of Genghis Khan on ' in the episode, "The Savage Curtain", an axe-wielding villain named "The Dark Rider" who fought David Carradine in the TV seriesKung Fu on the episode "Arrogant Dragon", and appeared opposite Bruce Lee as a Tong Enforcer in Lee's only pure acting role on the TV showHere Come the Brides, in the episode "Marriage, Chinese Style". Jung also played Saburyo, Helen Funai's cousin on an episode of Sanford and Son entitled "Home Sweet Home". Jung has been on a number of other TV shows including General Hospital, Starsky and Hutch, M*A*S*H, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Manimal, Magnum P.I., The A-Team, Falcon Crest, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Hunter, Riptide, Joe Forrester, and The New Mike Hammer. Jung has also appeared in the TV shows ' and "Illusions of Grandeur", Martial Law, as well as Highway to Heaven, Burke's Law, Dear John and Tour of Duty.
Film
Jung has acted in the films Surf Ninjas, as the henchman Bulkus in John Landis's first film, Kentucky Fried Movie, as The Wing Kong Hatchet Man in Big Trouble in Little China, as the Bonsai Club Manager in Showdown in Little Tokyo, and also appeared in films such as Sam Raimi's Darkman, The Shadow, American Yakuza, Beverly Hills Ninja, Corvette Summer and more. Jung has also acted in Asian Americanindependent films such as Justin Lin's Finishing The Game in the "Fists of Fuhrer" segment that was directed by Evan Jackson Leong and Juwan Chung's Baby. Jung also appears as himself, the narrator, in Timothy Tau's short documentary, Nathan Jung v. Bruce Lee, where he recounts the first time he met Bruce Lee on the set of the TV show Here Come the Brides in 1969 and with Allen Rowe portraying a younger version of him in narrative flashbacks; the film also won a Best Original Script and Best Comedy award at the 2018 Asians on Film Festival and has screened at the 2018 Taiwanese American Film Festival and the 2018 Vancouver Asian Film Festival.
