Dolph Lundgren
Acting
Hans Lundgren (born 3 November 1957), better known as Dolph Lundgren, is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. Lundgren's breakthrough came in 1985, when he starred in Rocky IV as the imposing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago. Since then, he has starred in more than 69 films, almost all of them in the action genre.
Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1982. He holds the rank of 4th dan black belt in Kyokushin karate and was European champion in 1980–81. While in Sydney, he became a bodyguard for Jamaican singer Grace Jones and began a relationship with her. He received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT and moved to Boston. Jones convinced him to leave the university and move to New York City to be with her and begin acting, where, after a short stint as a model and bouncer at the Manhattan nightclub The Limelight, Lundgren got a small debut role as a KGB henchman in the James Bond film A View to a Kill.
After appearing in Rocky IV, Lundgren portrayed He-Man in the 1987 science fantasy film Masters of the Universe, Lt. Rachenko in Red Scorpion (1988) and Frank Castle in the 1989 film The Punisher. Throughout the 1990s he appeared in films such as I Come in Peace (1990), Cover Up (1991), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), Universal Soldier film series (1992, 2009, 2012), Joshua Tree (1993), Pentathlon (1994), Men of War (1994), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), The Shooter (1995), Silent Trigger (1996), The Peacekeeper (1997), and Blackjack (1998). In 2004 he directed his first film, The Defender, and subsequently directed The Mechanik (2005), Missionary Man (2007), Command Performance (2009), and Icarus (2010), also starring in all of them.
After a long spell performing in direct-to-video films since 1995, Lundgren returned to Hollywood in 2010 with the role of Gunnar Jensen in The Expendables, alongside Sylvester Stallone and an all-action star cast. He reprised his role in The Expendables 2 (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014). Also in 2014, he co-starred in Skin Trade, an action thriller about human trafficking he co-wrote and produced. He reprised his role of Ivan Drago in Creed II (2018), and is due to reprise his role as Gunner Jensen in The Expendables 4. He appears in Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017), playing the protagonist's son Gil as an adult, and in Aquaman (2018), playing the father of Mera. He also had a recurring role in the fifth season of Arrow.
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Filmography of
Dolph Lundgren
Travis Johansen
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King Nereus
... 2023
Claude Luc Hallyday
... 2023
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 2023
Gunner Jensen
... 2023
Major Chase Anderson
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Anders
... 2023
Self (archive footage)
... 2023
Hans Kessler
... 2022
Tom Mason
... 2022
Svengeance (voice)
... 2022
Richard Ericson
... 2021
Victor von Manure
... 2021
Ivan Drago (archive footage)
... 2021
Dolph (voice)
... 2021
Michael Anderson
... 2019
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Vladik
... 2019
Aiden Hakansson
... 2019
King Nereus
... 2018
Ivan Drago
... 2018
Marco
... 2018
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Mature Gil Shepard
... 2017
Kyle Walker
... 2017
Gustav Ditters Present Day
... 2017
Sharpe
... 2017
Holt
... 2017
Jack
... 2017
Derek
... 2016
Jebediah Woodley
... 2016
Agent Reed
... 2016
Submarine Commander (uncredited)
... 2016
... 2015
Clint Gray
... 2015
William
... 2015
Bob Rooker
... 2015
Captain Hans Picault
... 2015
Dolph Lundgren
... 2015
Self
... 2015
... 2014
Nick Cassidy
... 2014
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Gunner Jensen
... 2014
Hollis
... 2014
Axel
... 2013
Maxwell
... 2013
Max Gatling
... 2013
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... 2012
The German
... 2012
Andrew Scott
... 2012
Aleksey Andreev
... 2012
Gunner Jensen
... 2012
Andy Spector
... 2012
Dr. Sage Mennox
... 2012
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... 2011
... 2011
... 2010
Gunner Jensen
... 2010
archival footage
... 2010
Lt. Nikolai Rachenko (archive footage)
... 2010
Edward Genn / Icarus
... 2010
Ivan Dragon (voice)
... 2009
Andrew Scott
... 2009
... 2009
... 2009
Mike Riggins
... 2009
Ryder
... 2007
Brixos
... 2007
Xander Ronson
... 2007
Self / Ivan Drago
... 2006
Nikolai Cherenko
... 2005
... 2005
Lance Rockford
... 2004
John Foster
... 2004
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Randy
... 2004
Frank Gannon
... 2004
Sam Decker
... 2003
Jason Price
... 2001
Matt Hendricks
... 2000
Nick Preston
... 2000
Matt Sorenson
... 2000
Major Jack Holloway
... 1999
Warchild
... 1999
Christian Erickson
... 1998
Lukas Sadorov
... 1998
Jack Devlin
... 1998
Frank Cross
... 1997
Waxman
... 1996
Michael Dane
... 1995
Street Preacher
... 1995
Nick Gunar
... 1994
Eric Brogar
... 1994
Dolph Lundgren
... 1994
Wellman Anthony Santee
... 1993
Andrew Scott / GR13
... 1992
Sgt. Chris Kenner
... 1991
Mike Anderson
... 1991
Det. Jack Caine
... 1990
Frank Castle / The Punisher
... 1989
Lt. Nikolai Rachenko
... 1988
... 1987
He-Man
... 1987
... 1986
Ivan Drago
... 1985
Venz
... 1985
George Cochrane
Ivan Drago
Self
Wiley
Miles