The kick boxing star added a touch of brutal realism to his close-quarters fight scenes, most memorably in cult classics such as 'Universal Soldier' (which pitted him against Dolph Lundgren) and 'Hard Target'.

His trademark move was jumping and rotating 360 degrees while kicking someone in the head, seen in his breakthrough hit film in America, 'Timecop'. Inevitably, the scripts got worse and he found himself in duff films such as 'Double Team' and 'The Quest'.