Jalal Merhi
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Jalal Merhi (born in Brazil) is a Canadian action film producer who was born in Brazil to [Lebanese] immigrant parents. He started his film career by selling his jewellery business to start a film production company. He has produced and acted in numerous action films that can be considered martial arts B movies.
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Risk Factor (2015)
As: Alex Granger
Alex Granger is a successful New York fashion photographer with a past - he is a former CIA operative specializing in surveillance work. Bored with his present life-style and craving adventure, Alex is lured back into the game by a beautiful, mysterious woman, who just happens to be in partnership with a major arms dealer. Alex is led to believe that he's being hired for industrial espionage and is ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Frank A. Caruso
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Elise Muller | Brett Halsey | Loren Avedon | Frank A. Caruso
The Circuit III: Final Flight (2006)
As: Bill
Following his wife's untimely death, Dirk Longstreet adopts a nomadic lifestyle. He preoccupies himself with surfing, and makes ends meet by participating in brutal underground brawls. Longstreet's leisurely lifestyle is abruptly interrupted when a young girl sold into slavery seeks the fighter's assistance. The child's former captors want her back, and Dirk is prepared to annihilate whoever gets ...
Directed by: Jalal Merhi
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Olivier Gruner | Loren Avedon | Brad Milne | Alina Basil
The Circuit 2: The Final Punch (2003)
As: Bill
Prisoners are dying at the Ogden Correctional Institution, a prison where a corrupt Warden has taken justice and business into his own hands. In the bowels of this prison, an underground fighting society has been formed. The Circuit is flourishing until investigative reporter Nicole Kent is thrown into the mix, and into Pike's cell where she is viciously attacked and left for dead. Enter Dirk Longstreet. ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jalal Merhi
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Olivier Gruner | Lorenzo Lamas | Michael Blanks | Gail Harris
Tiger Claws III: The Final Conflict (2001)
As: Tarek Richards
When a psychotic martial artist called Stryker resurrects the long-dead spirits of three ancient Chinese master assassins in an effort to take over the New York underworld, it's up to supercops Tarek Richards and Linda Masterson to stop him. However, it's not so easy to battle the undead, and though Richards apparently holds within him the key to defeating these "Masters", he will need the guidance ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: J. Stephen Maunder
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Cynthia Rothrock | Carter Wong | Loren Avedon | Michael Chow
Guaranteed on Delivery (2001)
As: Ray Stanton
A lonely truck driver teams up with a retired security expert to derail a sophisticated white slave trafficking operation.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Dean Rusu
Stars: David Carradine | Jalal Merhi | Olivier Gruner | Lisa K. Crosato | Josh Barker
Expect to Die (1997)
As: Blake
The military has been testing a new Virtual Reality fighting simulator, but testing is abruptly canceled when a soldier loses his life during the action. Its creator, Dr. Vincent MacIntyre, goes underground to continue developing the device, until detective Justin Blake and his partner Stone break into the syndicate to stop them. However, they are too late, and the new simulator is even deadlier than the ...
Directed by: Jalal Merhi
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Evan Lurie | Brad Milne | Lazar Rockwood | David Bradley
Tiger Claws II (1996)
As: Tarek Richards
Released five years after the first installment, Tiger Claws II finds Yeung's martial arts serial killer, Chong, busted out of jail by a team of heavies in the employ of gangster Dai Lo Fu and whisked across the country to San Fransisco's Chinatown. When NYC cop Tarek Richards learns of a rash of recent killings using Chong's distinctive M.O.— a claw-like mark across the face of the victim— he contacts ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: J. Stephen Maunder
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Ong Soo Han | Evan Lurie | Cynthia Rothrock | Bolo Yeung
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities (1995)
As: Himself
The first video to combine international martial arts together with interviews and demonstrations by celebrities of Hollywood.
Runtime: 58 min.
Directed by: Kevin Bourque | James Hong
Stars: Jalal Merhi | James Hong | Billy Blanks | Cynthia Rothrock | Loren Avedon
Expect No Mercy (1995)
As: Eric
Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the mysterious Virtual Arts Academy in search of Eric, a fellow agent. In this high-tech facility, the maniacal leader Warbeck is training assassins to become even more efficient killing machines using virtual reality. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit, Justin finds Eric, and together with the idealistic Vicki must bring down ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Zale Dalen
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Billy Blanks | Anthony De Longis | Laurie Holden | Wolf Larson
Operation Golden Phoenix (1994)
As: Mark Assante
A kickboxer is hired to protect half of a valuable medallion, but an evil warlord and another kickboxer are determined to have it, no matter what it takes.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Jalal Merhi
Stars: Jalal Merhi | James Hong | Karen Sheperd | Loren Avedon | Nichole Bardawil
TC 2000 (1993)
As: Niki Picasso
Somewhere in the future the environmental overkill had come. Many people had died. The rich were able to build the underworld, the poor had to stay on the surface building gangs to survive. Jason Storm, an underworld guard gets knowledge of a conspiracy to kill all people on the surface. He needs to flee to the surface, and wins Sumai, a respected martial arts master, as his ally to stop the dirty plot.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: T. J. Scott
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Matthias Hues | Bobbie Phillips | Billy Blanks | Bolo Yeung
Talons of the Eagle (1992)
As: Michael Reed
After 3 DEA agents are killed by crime boss Mr. Li (Hong), the DEA reluctantly calls in New York cop and martial arts expert Tyler Wilson (Blanks) and sends him undercover on assignment to Toronto to team up with Canadian vice cop Michael Reeds (Merhi). Wilson and Reeds must infiltrate Li's gang, so enter a martial arts tournament that Mr Li is known to attend to recruit talent.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Michael Kennedy
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Priscilla Barnes | Matthias Hues | James Hong | Billy Blanks
Tiger Claws (1992)
As: Tarek Richards
The police does not know what to do. They have to deal with a serial killer who aims at martial arts masters. One after another is killed in the same brutal way. This may be a chance for detective Linda Masterson to work on her first murder case. She gets the job and to her side an other martial arts specialist, Sgt. Tarek Richards. Now they need to find a tiger style master, because the killer obviously ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Kelly Makin
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Cynthia Rothrock | Bolo Yeung | Nick Dibley | Fern Figueiredo
Fearless Tiger (1991)
As: Lyle Camille
A man's brother dies of an overdose from a new and potent drug introduced by a drug gang. He puts off his wedding to a beautiful model and postpones taking over the family business while he travels to Hong Kong to learn Tiger Claw kung fu from its master. Then he plans to take his revenge on the drug dealers responsible for his brother's death.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Ron Hulme
Stars: Jalal Merhi | Monika Schnarre | Bolo Yeung | Jamie Farr | Lazar Rockwood