Before playing Bane in "Batman & Robin," Jeep Swenson competed in both World Class Championship Wrestling and WCW.
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Tyler Mane arrived in WCW in 1989 as Nitron.
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In the early '90s, Mane became Vinnie Vegas's associate, Big Sky.
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Mane really turned heads with his turns as Sabretooth in “X-Men” and as the new Michael Myers in the “Halloween” remake and its subsequent sequel.
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Woody Strode was a barrier-breaking African-American wrestler who was one of the first black players in the NFL. He also had memorable roles in films like "Spartacus" and "The Ten Commandments."
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Lenny "The Bull" Montana is well-known as Luca Brasi from "The Godfather," but he was also an accomplished pro wrestler.
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Tor Johnson, also known as The Super Swedish Angel, became a B-movie icon and starred in flicks like "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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Does the face of wrestler Tosh Togo ring any bells?
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You might recognize him as Harold Sakata, the man who played hat-tossing Bond henchman Oddjob in "Goldfinger."
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Milton Reid, who wrestled as Mighty Chang, was nearly cast as Oddjob. He had a long acting career in movies like "Swiss Family Robinson," "The Return of the Pink Panther" and Bond flicks "Dr. No" and "The Spy Who Loved Me."
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Any longtime wrestling fan that gets a kick out of squared circle camp loves the 1989 cult classic “No Holds Barred” starring Hulk Hogan and Tom "Tiny" Lister as Zeus.
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Lister also acted in movies like "The Fifth Element," "Jackie Brown" and "Friday."
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That year, Lister joined WWE as the same Human Wrecking Machine he played in the motion picture.
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Zeus wrestled at SummerSlam and Survivor Series, landed in the PWI 500 and later appeared in WCW.
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Alex Karras, who you might know as Mongo from "Blazing Saddles," was also a football player for the Detroit Lions and battled Dick the Bruiser in the ring.
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Karras' big role was as sitcom dad George Papadopolis in "Webster."
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Robert Maillet made a name for himself in WWE during The Attitude Era as The Interrogator — a member of The Jackyl’s Truth Commission.
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Later Maillet joined the enormously popular Oddities faction and the behemoth was reborn as Kurrgan, complete with awkward dancing and tie-dye.
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Maillet first made waves in Hollywood as the bloodthirsty Uber Immortal in Frank Miller’s epic “300,” for which he won Best Fight at the MTV Movie Awards.
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The former Oddity nailed the role of Russian Jaeger pilot Aleksis Kaidanovsky in Guillermo del Toro’s adrenaline-pumping “Pacific Rim.”