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I'd like to take this opportunity to point out another "scientist" (minor) actor not mentioned in this article: - speaks Swedish, English, Spanish, some German

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out another "scientist" (minor) actor not mentioned in this article: - speaks Swedish, English, Spanish, some German, some French, some Japanese, and some Italian - awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney (1982) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_lundgren http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_lundgren

jhamburger 16y ago
Kind of ironic to be so gifted in so many areas, and yet be famous for something you're not even good at.
- mbreese 16y ago
  And that none of the above information appears in the wikipedia page... Edit: I just can't read... it's there as mentioned below.
  - brown9-2 16y ago
    It's all in the third paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_lundgren#Early_life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_lundgren#Early_life. Here is a permalink in case of future edits to the version I am viewing: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolph_Lundgren&oldid=416247805 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolph_Lundgren&#38...
- gamble 16y ago
  One bad movie pays more than a year in the lab.
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  - pchristensen 16y ago
    That's not fair, he has been in tons of bad movies!
    - gamble 16y ago
      Directs some of them, too.
- pchristensen 16y ago
  I don't know, he was pretty good at pretending to be a Russian boxer. Oh, you mean acting.
roel_v 16y ago
Man people like this make me feel so inadequate.
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  - Pooter 16y ago
    Or stop measuring one's success against arbitrary standards.
sp_ 16y ago
Or how about this fellow who has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry, a PhD in law, and was an Olympic swimmer but is best known for his movies where he gets into fights with other guys (pretty much everybody in my age bracket in Germany and some other European countries knows him). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer Edit: He is also a jet pilot, helicopter pilot, holder of multiple patents, and a startup founder with a successful exit as Wikipedia shows! :)
- rospaya 16y ago
  I'm lost for words.
- Nick_C 16y ago
  I also say, 'Wow'. Pretty much everyone in Australia in my age bracket knows him too. Funny that Terrence Hill was always cast as the smart guy and Bud as the dumb companion.
defen 16y ago
You forgot "European karate champion". My favorite Dolph story is that he put Stallone in the ICU for 8 days: > Sylvester Stallone has stated that the original punching scenes filmed between him and Dolph Lundgren in the first portion of the fight are completely authentic. Stallone wanted to capture a realistic scene and Lundgren agreed that they would engage in legitimate sparring. One particularly forceful Lundgren punch to Stallone's chest slammed his heart against his breastbone, causing the heart to swell and his breathing to become labored. Stallone, suffering from labored breathing and a blood pressure over 200, was flown from the set in Canada to St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica and was forced into intensive care for eight days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_IV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_IV

jhamburger 16y ago

Kind of ironic to be so gifted in so many areas, and yet be famous for something you're not even good at.

mbreese 16y ago
And that none of the above information appears in the wikipedia page... Edit: I just can't read... it's there as mentioned below.
- brown9-2 16y ago
  It's all in the third paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_lundgren#Early_life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_lundgren#Early_life. Here is a permalink in case of future edits to the version I am viewing: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolph_Lundgren&oldid=416247805 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolph_Lundgren&#38...
gamble 16y ago
One bad movie pays more than a year in the lab.
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- pchristensen 16y ago
  That's not fair, he has been in tons of bad movies!
  - gamble 16y ago
    Directs some of them, too.
pchristensen 16y ago
I don't know, he was pretty good at pretending to be a Russian boxer. Oh, you mean acting.

roel_v 16y ago

Man people like this make me feel so inadequate.

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- Pooter 16y ago
  Or stop measuring one's success against arbitrary standards.

sp_ 16y ago

Or how about this fellow who has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry, a PhD in law, and was an Olympic swimmer but is best known for his movies where he gets into fights with other guys (pretty much everybody in my age bracket in Germany and some other European countries knows him). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer Edit: He is also a jet pilot, helicopter pilot, holder of multiple patents, and a startup founder with a successful exit as Wikipedia shows! :)

rospaya 16y ago
I'm lost for words.
Nick_C 16y ago
I also say, 'Wow'. Pretty much everyone in Australia in my age bracket knows him too. Funny that Terrence Hill was always cast as the smart guy and Bud as the dumb companion.

defen 16y ago

You forgot "European karate champion". My favorite Dolph story is that he put Stallone in the ICU for 8 days: > Sylvester Stallone has stated that the original punching scenes filmed between him and Dolph Lundgren in the first portion of the fight are completely authentic. Stallone wanted to capture a realistic scene and Lundgren agreed that they would engage in legitimate sparring. One particularly forceful Lundgren punch to Stallone's chest slammed his heart against his breastbone, causing the heart to swell and his breathing to become labored. Stallone, suffering from labored breathing and a blood pressure over 200, was flown from the set in Canada to St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica and was forced into intensive care for eight days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_IV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_IV