Member AlbertV Posted March 2, 2018 Member Share Posted March 2, 2018 Born: March 18, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. Since his film debut as the manipulative co-founder of the Cobra Kai dojo Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part III, Thomas Ian Griffith is both a well-respected actor and screenwriter. He is also an ace in martial arts, having black belts in Tae Kwon Do and Kenpo Karate. He did start on television for three years as Callum Ewing on the soap opera Another World. After Karate Kid III, Griffith became a small staple of 90's B-movies, having written and producing Lorenzo Lamas' Night of the Warrior. He would go on to star in films such as Ulterior Motives opposite his wife, actress Mary Page Keller; Excessive Force, and Crackerjack. In 1998, he played the central villain of Jan Valek in John Carpenter's Vampires. After 2007's The Kidnapping, Griffith decides to step back from acting and focus on writing and producing. He was a co-producer on the long-running TV series Grimm, moving up to supervising producer of its final season in 2017. Kreese and Silver in The Karate Kid III Griffith as Jack Blaylock in Ulterior Motives Griffith as Terry McCain in Excessive Force Griffith as Frank Wusharsky in Blood of the Innocent aka Death Connection Griffith as Valek in John Carpenter's Vampires Griffith and wife Mary Page Keller 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted March 2, 2018 Member Share Posted March 2, 2018 He also wrote several of the Grimm scripts and was story editor for 21 episodes. All that and he was a sexy (albeit evil) vampire too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted March 2, 2018 Member Share Posted March 2, 2018 1 hour ago, AlbertV said: Born: March 18, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. I wrote a brief bio and started a thread for this guy, but it was lost during the 2016 black-out. Always has a good screen presence, and I think he would have been a bigger star, had the action market not been so over-saturated at the time. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted March 2, 2018 Member Share Posted March 2, 2018 He also starred in Hollow Point with Tia Carrere and Donald Sutherland. It irks me to no end that the only US dvd release is for Excessive Force. His other films should get US releases, too. I always thought he was a top notch B movie star and solid screen fighter. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted May 5, 2021 Author Member Share Posted May 5, 2021 I have a good feeling we are going to see his return as Terry Silver in Cobra Kai Season 4 Spoiler In the S3 finale, Kreese sees a pic of his war buddies and makes a call saying...long time! Could this call be to one Terry Silver? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted May 5, 2021 Member Share Posted May 5, 2021 Robert Kamen already confirmed Terry Silver was gonna be in it. Mike Barnes will probably show up at the end of season 4 most likely. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cognoscente Posted May 9, 2021 Member Share Posted May 9, 2021 On 3/2/2018 at 3:00 PM, AlbertV said: Born: March 18, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. Since his film debut as the manipulative co-founder of the Cobra Kai dojo Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part III, Thomas Ian Griffith is both a well-respected actor and screenwriter. He is also an ace in martial arts, having black belts in Tae Kwon Do and Kenpo Karate. He did start on television for three years as Callum Ewing on the soap opera Another World. After Karate Kid III, Griffith became a small staple of 90's B-movies, having written and producing Lorenzo Lamas' Night of the Warrior. He would go on to star in films such as Ulterior Motives opposite his wife, actress Mary Page Keller; Excessive Force, and Crackerjack. In 1998, he played the central villain of Jan Valek in John Carpenter's Vampires. After 2007's The Kidnapping, Griffith decides to step back from acting and focus on writing and producing. He was a co-producer on the long-running TV series Grimm, moving up to supervising producer of its final season in 2017. http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/_img/297-3.jpg Kreese and Silver in The Karate Kid III Griffith as Jack Blaylock in Ulterior Motives Griffith as Terry McCain in Excessive Force http://images3.cinema.de/imedia/2404/2012404,yp+T7PMY5lKvdiJRNP2232rRcIxVh8A_S7N9IsWuz4QEwaEPZZrjpU+rJbihmueTTpJCTKIusJ0qmDEDRKo4WA==.jpg Griffith as Frank Wusharsky in Blood of the Innocent aka Death Connection Griffith as Valek in John Carpenter's Vampires In that first photo, he looks like what if Thomas F. Wilson got in shape. In the other photos, he reminds me of the villain in American Shaolin. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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