Best ie worst examples of TV/movie 70s white dudes doing 'kung fu'

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Or karate or any form of martial arts, really. David Carradine is excluded as he wins by default, so this is everyone else. Screencaps welcome.

Brought up by the random reminder in my brain just now of the 70s TV movie pain of Code Name: Diamond Head, as relentlessly MSTed by Mike and le Bots.

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/daddyo/images/608VIDEO.JPG

Supersuave love man/secret agent Roy Thinnes, possessed of some absolutely horrible hair, engages a Japanese ninja assassin samurai person (as vaguely described by the good guys, though he too is horribly 70s looking) in an extremely flaccid fight dockside. The key editing trick dreamed up by the pot-smoking technical wizards behind this fight involves showing Thinnes spreading his arms vaguely while the balsa wood that's being driven towards his skull moves aside. This while the camera is mostly shooting up Thinnes's nose.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 April 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

http://media.venda.com/bbcshop/ebiz/bbc/invt/0563381876/035BA70B_1.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 April 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

JOHN SAXON.

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 11 April 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

actually, i think that John Carradine did just fine, especially when they played to his strengths and slowed the footage down.

― kingfish, Monday, 11 April 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

If you extend the category to 'westerners' Rudy Ray Moore's Human Tornado lords over this thread

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Knightrider, where he fights evil Knightrider (David Hasselhoff in a black t-shirt with a black moustache, driving a huge 18 wheeler truck) in the desert, they circle each other and perform some crazy kicks!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

James Caan seemed to acquit himself reasonably well in The Killer Elite, which was--despite some good performances (Gig Young and Bo Hopkins!)--was ridiculous.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Well, the worst is easily Dorian from Love Camp.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Knightrider was 80's but damn yeah how you gonna top that?

― kephm, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

Elektra.

Really!

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

If we're including the 80s and Rudy Ray Moore, Michael Winslow in Police Academy

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

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