Highest rated movie: Steve McQueen: American Icon (2017)
Lowest rated movie: Future War (1997)
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Looking for reviews of Mel Novak movies? Cinafilm has a total of 519 reviews across 19 movies.
Movies starring Mel Novak have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 50%.
Steve McQueen: American Icon - released in 2017 - is Mel Novak's highest rated movie, with a score of 76% based on 5 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Mel Novak is Future War - released in 1997 - with a score of 19% based on 37 reviews.
A native of Pittsburgh, Mel was an outstanding athlete in several sports. He passed up 60 football scholarship offers and signed a pro baseball contract with the Pirates. His career was cut short by a massive rotator cuff injury. Mel has starred or co-starred in over 60 movies and he does his own fighting and stunts. He shot and fought Bruce Lee to the death, (GAME OF DEATH), beat up Steve McQueen (Tom Horn), and dueled Yul Brynner (THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR). Mel set up Chuck Norris to be hit, but Norris got him later (EYE FOR AN EYE).
Born in Pittsburgh to Serbian parents as Milan Mrdjenovich (Serbian: Милан Мрђеновић, Milan Mrđenović), Novak made his film debut in 1974, appearing in two blaxploitation films.
Mel Novak has acted in films with Chuck Norris, Héctor Elizondo, Steve McQueen and Bonnie Aarons.
Mel Novak has worked with these film directors: Robert Clouse, Garry Marshall, Jonathan Kaplan and Jon Erwin.
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