Lyle Alzado

Born: 1949-04-03

Lyle Martin Alzado was an American professional All Pro football defensive end of the National Football League (NFL), famous for his intense and intimidating style of play. Alzado pursued an acting career in both movies and television, appearing mostly in youth-oriented comedy and adventure roles. His most notable film roles include the bully construction worker in Ernest Goes to Camp and the unstoppable killer in Destroyer. He also appeared in Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All as a notorious bodyguard and rifleman. He played prison staff member Brawn in the 1990 film Club Fed, and co-starred in the film Neon City. On television, Alzado appeared in a number of mid-1980s commercials for Sports Illustrated with "Jack", who tries to help him perform the commercial correctly. He played himself, wearing his Raiders uniform, in the Amazing Stories episode "Remote Control Man" He also played himself in a 1988 episode of Small Wonder, and made a guest appearance on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show in 1989. Alzado starred in the sitcom Learning the Ropes as a high school teacher whose secret alter ego is a professional wrestler known as "The Masked Maniac," alongside numerous NWA Wrestling stars. Alzado appeared in the series premiere of the short-lived 1991 sitcom Good Sports with Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett, and in episodes of It's Garry Shandling's Show and MacGyver.


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as Man in Apartment
Released: 1989-02-03

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of...

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Ernest Goes to Camp

as Bronk Stinson (Foreman)
Released: 1987-05-22

Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance...

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Bigger Stronger Faster*

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2008-05-30

In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest...

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Neon City

as Bulk
Released: 1991-12-16

"Mad Max" clone set in the not-too-distant future about a group of people trying to escape to a...

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Tapeheads

as You'll Never Make It In Show Biz guy
Released: 1988-10-21

The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of...

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Zapped Again!

as Coach Kirby
Released: 1990-04-14

A new kid moves into school, making enemies with the affluent societies and joining the...

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Destroyer

as Ivan Moser
Released: 1988-04-01

A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and...

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Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All

as Reggie Diaz
Released: 1989-05-21

Mike Hammer is kidnapped and led to believe it is the work of a Las Vegas entertainer, but soon...

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Hangfire

as Albert
Released: 1991-01-11

When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage,...

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Shocktroop

as General Orlorf
Released: 1989-05-11

The special commando Delta Force is sent behind the line of fire into the terrain of the enemy....

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The Double McGuffin

as uncredited
Released: 1979-06-01

Some school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a...

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Oceans of Fire

as Witkowski
Released: 1986-09-16

Ben, a former Navy officer now works on a rig as the guy in charge, but since a lot of crew...

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The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite

as Mamie
Released: 1981-05-21

In this sequel to "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything," down-on-his-luck Kirby Winter...

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Comrades in Arms

as Gen. Rada
Released: 1991-05-01

Men from Russia and the United States join forces to prevent a powerful drug ring from achieving...

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MacGyver

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-09-29

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a...

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Trapper John, M.D.

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-09-23

Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH,...

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The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-09-04

In 1989 the two most famous plumbers from Brooklyn burst out of the Nintendo game world and onto...

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Amazing Stories

as Lyle Alzado
First aired: 1985-09-29

A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and...

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True Blue

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-12-03

True Blue is a short-running NBC Television series set in New York City which aired on Friday...

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Good Sports

as uncredited
First aired: 1991-01-10

Good Sports is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS network in 1991, starring Farrah Fawcett...

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Broken Badges

as uncredited
First aired: 1990-11-24

Broken Badges is an American-Canadian police drama

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