Calvin Jung
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| Born | February 17, 1945 New York City |
Calvin Jung (born February 17, 1945) is an American actor.
After graduating from High School in New York, Jung started to attend a military school in Virginia. After temporarily attending the Hilsdale College in Michigan he started to work as a professional actor. In 1976 he debuted on Broadway in the dramas Memory of Two Mondays und They Knew What They Wanted which were being enacted at the Phoenix Repertory Theater.
Together with George C. Scott, he starred in Sly Fox. Among his later theatrical engagements were parts at the Brooklyn Academy (Dawn Song), at the American Place Theatre (Chickencoop Chinaman), and La Mama Experimental Theatre.
In the 1980s, Jung started to assume supporting parts in major movie productions such as RoboCop in 1987, wherein he played Steve Minh, a member of a vicious gang of cocaine dealers and bank robbers that brutally slays a police man who afterwards is turned into the revengeful cyborg-protagonist of the movie. Other movies that Jung appeared in were The Formula (next to Marlon Brando), The Challenge (next to Toshiro Mifune), Lethal Weapon 4 (next to Mel Gibson), and The Day After (next to Jason Robards).
On television Jung frequently took over guest parts in crime-series and sitcoms such as Murder, She Wrote, Cheers, Trapper John M.D., and Seinfeld.
