Michael Sopkiw is a B-movie American actor who has starred in only four Italian movies in two years. He was born in 1954 in Connecticut. Following a navigation career, he was arrested and imprisoned by the DEA for shipping marijuana.Sopkiw took modeling jobs, and he was employed in Italy by filmmaker Sergio Martino to star in 2019, After the Fall of New York. Lamberto Bava (the son of famous movie-maker Mario Bava) then recruited Sopkiw in order to shoot two movies in the United States, Blastfighter and Monster Shark. He finally ended his film career in Stranded in Dinosaur Valley by Michele Massimo Tarantini.Michael's finest hour was his performance as Jake "Tiger" Sharp in Blastfighter where he plays a tough ex-cop who single handedly takes out an army of thigh slapping rednecks with his flying jacket and supersonic rifle - known as the "Blastfighter". Tiger soon learns that these rednecks mean business and he embarks on a one man mission to finish them all off.His movie career being unsuccessful, Michael gave up acting and went to study medicinal plant science. He launched a company, Miron Glass, in California where he imports and distributes special glass bottles designed to protect the contents from the sun.
I think everyone should do his best work or not bother working. We call this genre of "rip offs" exploitation films. Not sexually of course, in this case, but exploiting concepts and ideas that have already been shown to attract interest and therefore money. Generally speaking, I don't find this a very attractive or noble motivation. If this is the best work these people can do then I thank them for their efforts, thank them for allowing me to be a part of it, and hope they are not just into it for the money. I also hope for them that they can do better in the future.
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In two of his movies, "Devil Fish" and "Massacre in Dinosaur Valley," he appears much of the time bare-chested.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bad Dog and Superhero
2014
Coffee Shop / Bar Local
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley
1985
Kevin Hall
Devil Fish
1984
Peter
Blastfighter
1984
Jake 'Tiger' Sharp
2019: After the Fall of New York
1983
Parsifal
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Scarlet Worm
2011
special thanks
Known for movies
2019: After the Fall of New York (1983) as Parsifal
$500,000
