6. He’s Been In Pictures
Mark Calaway is so closely associated with The Undertaker — and the line between the two is so blurred — that he’s very rarely made appearances out of character. While most of the other stars the company’s had over the years have been in a movie here, a network TV show there — hell, at the very least, an appearance on some of USA’s original programming — Calaway has been largely confined to WWE programming.Advertisement
There are a couple of exceptions, though. Calaway and big-guy character actor Tony Longo played a pair of intergalactic bounty hunters in the 1991 Hulk Hogan vehicle Suburban Commando, trying (and failing) to capture Hogan’s Shep Ramsey. Calaway’s one speaking line was dubbed with a comically high voice, prompting Hogan to remark, “Now I know why you guys never talk.” Clearly, Undertaker is choosy about his projects.
In an even more obscure bit of trivia, “The Undertaker” was featured in the Bollywood hit Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi — but the character was portrayed by Brian “Chainz” Lee. The movie features a wrestling scene where Lee’s Undertaker battles Crush (Brian Adams) — notable, because Lee played the fake Undertaker in the infamous “Undertaker versus Undertaker” program of 1994. Though not together, both Mark Calaway and The Undertaker have ranked up a bit of screen time.
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