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Max Kleven is an American film and TV professional who has worked as an actor, stunt coordinator, second unit director and assistant director. He has been involved in movies such as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Runaway Train and Rollerball, and TV shows such as Magnum, P.I. and Kojak.
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Max Kleven is an American actor and assistant director, born in 1933. He has worked on films such as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Runaway Train and Rollerball.
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Max Kleven (born 16 August 1933; age 90) is a retired stuntman, stunt actor, stunt coordinator, and assistant director who played Achilles in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Bread and Circuses".
Kleven is a native of Norway, was educated there, before immigrating to the United States in 1951, where he lived for a time in Vermont and New York. By 1962, when he married his wife, singer Judy A'Mour, he worked as a director-actor with Columbia Pictures, and was under contract to the series Route 66 (with Glenn Corbett) and appeared weekly on the series Naked City (with Lawrence Dobkin, Nancy Malone, and Perry Lopez). (Transcript-Telegram [Holyoke, MA], 12 July 1962, p. 12.)
In 1973, Kleven was the president of the Stunt Men's Association. (Independent [Long Beach, CA], 26 March 1973, p. A-3.)
In 2012, Kleven received a Lifetime Membership Award from the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures.
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Ruckus is a 1980 American comedic action thriller film written and directed by Max Kleven, and starring Dirk Benedict and Linda Blair. Its plot follows an unstable Vietnam War veteran who wages war against his oppressors in a small Southern town.
Max Kleven is known as an Actor, Stunt Coordinator, Stunts, Second Unit Director, Director, Writer, Action Director, and Screenplay. Some of his work includes Hard Times, Around the World in Eighty Days, Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, 99 and 44/100% Dead, Murderers' Row, Magnum, P.I., Get Smart, and Melvin Purvis G-Man.
Max Kleven was born on 16 August, 1933 in USA, is a Stunts, Actor, Assistant Director. Discover Max Kleven's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates.
Max Kleven is a versatile performer who has worked in various genres and roles, from action to comedy. He has appeared in shows like Magnum, P.I., Mission: Impossible, and Star Trek, and movies like Footloose, Protocol, and Border Heat.
