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Lyle Alzado
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Lyle Martin Alzado was an American professional All Pro football defensive end of the National Football League (NFL), famous for his intense and intimidating style of play. Alzad…
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Lyle Martin Alzado was an American professional All Pro football defensive end of the National Football League (NFL), famous for his intense and intimidating style of play. Alzado pursued an acting career in both movies and television, appearing mostly in youth-oriented comedy and adventure roles. His most notable film roles include the bully construction worker in Ernest Goes to Camp and the unstoppable killer in Destroyer. He also appeared in Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All as a notorious bodyguard and rifleman. He played prison staff member Brawn in the 1990 film Club Fed, and co-starred in the film Neon City. On television, Alzado appeared in a number of mid-1980s commercials for Sports Illustrated with "Jack", who tries to help him perform the commercial correctly. He played himself, wearing his Raiders uniform, in the Amazing Stories episode "Remote Control Man" He also played himself in a 1988 episode of Small Wonder, and made a guest appearance on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show in 1989. Alzado starred in the sitcom Learning the Ropes as a high school teacher whose secret alter ego is a professional wrestler known as "The Masked Maniac," alongside numerous NWA Wrestling stars. Alzado appeared in the series premiere of the short-lived 1991 sitcom Good Sports with Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett, and in episodes of It's Garry Shandling's Show and MacGyver.
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2008
Bigger Stronger Faster*
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1998
Amazing Stories: The Movie III
Movie Lyle Alzado
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1991
Neon City
Movie Bulk
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1991
Comrades in Arms
Movie Gen. Rada
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1991
Hangfire
Movie Albert
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1991
Good Sports
TV show Lyle Alzado
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1990
Broken Badges
TV show
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1990
Club Fed
Movie Brawn
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1990
Zapped Again!
Movie Coach Kirby
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1989
True Blue
TV show
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1989
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Mario's Magic Carpet
Movie Lyle Alzado
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1989
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
TV show Lyle Alzado
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1989
Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All
Movie Reggie Diaz
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1989
Shocktroop
Movie General Orlorf
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1989
Who's Harry Crumb?
Movie Man in Apartment
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1988
Tapeheads
Movie You'll Never Make It In Show Biz guy
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1988
Destroyer
Movie Ivan Moser
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1987
Ernest Goes to Camp
Movie Bronk Stinson (Foreman)
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1986
Oceans of Fire
Movie Witkowski
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1985
MacGyver
TV show
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1985
Amazing Stories
TV show Lyle Alzado
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1981
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
Movie Mamie
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1979
Trapper John, M.D.
TV show
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1979
The Double McGuffin
Movie Assassin #2
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1970
Monday Night Football
TV show Defensive End
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Mike Christian's IRON WARRIOR WORKOUT
Movie Self
