Jean-Claude Van Damme made his directorial debut with 1996’s The Quest, and it remains his most underrated movie. Additionally ... Peter Wong as the Chinese fighter, Taekwondo kicking machine ...

The famous martial arts movie star demanded much more than what Universal was willing to pay for a Timecop trilogy.

The question of who was the better fighter between Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris has been a hot topic among martial arts and action movie fans for decades. Both actors not only made their ...

Dimitri Logothetis helms the latest film sequel in the martial arts franchise that began with Jean-Claude Van ... over the lead role of fighter Kurt Sloane. Van Damme, who played Kurt in the ...

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With him, the world of film fans and martial arts cinema discovered a new idol: Jean-Claude Van Damme. In the 1970s there was Bruce Lee, but at the end of the 1980s a Belgian won the day.

In an interview with The Telegraph last week, Van Damme nevertheless seemed to diss Seagal. "The first movie I saw of his, I said, ‘This guy’s going to make it, he’s very charismatic,'" he ...

Credit: Kings Road Entertainment Maybe you're too young to remember Kickboxer, the 1989 martial arts movie where Jean-Claude Van Damme learns Muay Thai in a training montage, kicks down a banana ...

One of the emblems of 1980s cinema, Belgian-born martial arts expert Jean-Claude Van Damme, is not as popular today, and success has taken its toll after so many years as a Hollywood action movie ...

Jean-Claude Van Damme ... while landing small roles in movies. However, the pressure of fame and personal struggles began to take a toll on his career. Van Damme struggled with substance abuse ...