Random Fact of the Day: Steven Seagal

26 June 2007

Topics: Funny Stuff, Movie Stuff

I don’t know if you know this, but Steven Seagal, besides being the first foreigner to open a dojo in Japan, also really loves the number three. Steven Seagal has acted in 31 movies in his 20-year career, and 15 of them have three words in their title. He also likes to kill stuff, with seven of his movies having a combination of the word “kill” or “dead” in the title. He has starred in two franchises, as an ex-Navy Seals in the “Under Siege” movies, and as an ex-CIA agent in “The Foreigner”, a role which he reprises in “Black Dawn”. He has also starred in seven movies where he is teamed up with a black sidekick, first in 1990’s “Marked for Death”, and most recently in 2007’s “Urban Justice”.

Other Steven Seagal random facts:

Number of movies Seagal has starred in where he plays either an ex-CIA agent or an ex-covert operator: 17

Number of movies Seagal has played a “loose cannon” cop: 7

Number of movies Seagal has single-handedly saved the environment by blowing shit up: 3

Number of movies Seagal’s character actually gets touched or nicked during a fight scene, not counting movies where the premise hangs on him being put in a coma: 2 (”Clementine” and “Belly of the Beast”)

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