Actors from the TMNT movies: Where are they now?

[Ninjara]

      LOL!!!  You just made my morning, Wyze.    

      This is  neat imagery of Raph that you've given us.......and the line is perfect!

       I may never stop chuckling over this one.  Thanks!

     
     
     

[Aignatius]

Suddenly I'm picturing Raph as a Ferengi, and one of these days I might stop laughing. "The 25th Rule of Acquisition clearly states ... okay, y'know what? Screw the Rules. I'm the guy with the sais, so pay up!"

       

Not to mention very quotable.  

[sadboy]

Believe it or not, the TV show "Walker, Texas Ranger" had a couple of actors from TMNT 1 guest-star in different episodes:

Toshishiro Obata showed up in an episode involving Walker's martial arts teacher, though I can't remember if he played said teacher.

Paige Turco was in another episode, and she played the older sister of a ne'er-do-well who was abusing her connections to the FBI to remain immune to arrest while he engaged in drug dealing or something.

It's been over a decade since I've seen those episodes, so I remember very little about them other than Aprl and Tatsu were in them.

Oh, and Ernie Reyes Jr. used to star in a short-lived prime-time TV show called "Sidekicks", as the (possibly adopted son) of a cop whose martial arts skills -- which he'd learned from his grandfather -- came in handy with some of the cop's cases. Ernie couldn't have been older than 10 (and his character's name was even Ernie), and his ability to kick the crap out of adults actually inspired my lifelong interest in martial arts.

According to wikipedia, Ernie currently host's MTV's "Final Fu" TV show, a martial arts competition. And a while back I saw him in a movie (possibly direct-to-video) called "Ultimate Fight", which featured his character in a Filipino family that was fighting back against a neighborhood gang and that received help from a Filipino kickboxer. That movie was really, really horrible, with only the fight sequences to redeem it.

I might have missed this, but I didn't see anyone mention Ernie playing the stunt double for Donatello. He was mentioned briefly in an Inside Kung Fu article shortly after the first movie was released, and I remember the big commotion was how the fights were more karate oriented than based on actual ninjitsu,

You can download Sidekicks episodes on YouTube. I just saw the pilot, and--it seems almost like yesterday. (brief note: I thought I saw Don Cheadle playing one of the thugs, and coincidentally, some guy posted the same comment.)

[wyze2099]

I might have missed this, but I didn't see anyone mention Ernie playing the stunt double for Donatello. He was mentioned briefly in an Inside Kung Fu article shortly after the first movie was released, and I remember the big commotion was how the fights were more karate oriented than based on actual ninjitsu,

You can download Sidekicks episodes on YouTube. I just saw the pilot, and--it seems almost like yesterday. (brief note: I thought I saw Don Cheadle playing one of the thugs, and coincidentally, some guy posted the same comment.)

Yep, it's Don Cheadle.

Ernie was indeed Don's stunt double for the first movie. I remember an interview with him in TMNT magazine around the time the second movie came out, in which he revealed that at first he didn't have any interest in TMNT or the first movie until he saw the toys and other merchandising; he saw how huge it was, and he wanted to be a part of it.

I looked for a Sidekicks vid on youtube a while back, just out of curiosity, and I didn't find anything. Of course, that may be because this video wasn't posted until later. This brings back so many memories. Ernie's stunts in "Sidekicks" were what inspired my lifelong interest in the martial arts in the first place. The idea that a tiny little kid could defend himself against much larger bullies was very attractive to me.

I find it amusing that there was controversy in Inside Kung Fu about ninjutsu accuracy. I mean, c'mon, this is TMNT ... what were they expecting?