Steven Seagal is an American action film star, producer, writer, martial artist, guitarist, and a reserve deputy sheriff. A 7th-dan black belt in Aikido, he began his adult life as an Aikido instructor in Japan. He became the first foreigner to operate an Aikido Dojo in Japan. He later moved to the Los Angeles, California, area where he made his film debut in 1988 in Above the Law. By 1991, he had starred in three successful films, and would go on to achieve greater fame in Under Siege (1992), where he played Navy SEALs counter-terrorist expert Casey Ryback. However, his image became tarnished when both On Deadly Ground (1994, which he directed) and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) did poorly in theaters. During the later half of the 90s, he starred in three more theatrical films and a direct-to-video The Patriot. Aside from Exit Wounds (2001) and Half Past Dead (2002), his career shifted almost entirely to direct-to-video films (often low budget productions and shot in Europe or...
Marked for Death
1990
Machete
2010
Under Siege
1992
Out for Justice
1991
On Deadly Ground
1994
Exit Wounds
2001
China Salesman
2017
A Dangerous Man
2009
Hot!
2019
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
1995
Attrition
2018
Above the Law
1988
Absolution
2015
Executive Decision
1996
Fire Down Below
1997
Hard to Kill
1990
General Commander
2019
Clementine
2004
Deadly Crossing
2010
Ticker
2001
Today You Die
2005
Beyond the Law
2019
The Onion Movie
2008
Belly of the Beast
2003
The Glimmer Man
1996
The Patriot
1998
Get Bruce!
1999
Submerged
2005
Dark Vengeance
2011
The Foreigner
2003
My Giant
1998
Code of Honor
2016
Half Past Dead
2002
Driven to Kill
2009
Maximum Conviction
2012
Shadow Man
2006
Sniper: Special Ops
2016
Payback
2011
Mercenary for Justice
2006
Into the Sun
2005