Martial artist Sammo Hung is very well known in his native Hong Kong and in other parts of Asia, but his U.S. celebrity rests mainly on his performance as Sammo in the series "Martial Arts," which ran from 1998 to 2000 and which co-starred African-American comic Arsenio Hall.
The stocky Sammo was trained in the China Drama Academy, where he came to know future martial arts star Jackie Chan. Hung has appeared in many films and, like Chan,became popular with U.S. audiences by combining martial arts prowess with comedy, quite unlike so many of the martial arts biggies who seemed deadly serious at all times.
The chunky yet acrobatic Hung speaks only modest English but played his role with a self-effacing air and a big, happy grin that the American audience liked.
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