Benny Urquidez - Movie Roles

Movie Roles

Urquidez has played a number of roles in various martial arts movies. The first was Force: Five (1981), starring Joe Lewis and Bong Soo Han. Later, he made two movies with Jackie Chan, Wheels on Meals (1984) and Dragons Forever (1988), wherein he fights against the characters played by Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. Urquidez is depicted as a relentlessly tough opponent who is defeated in the climactic fight scenes of both movies. His final fight with Chan in Wheels on Meals is considered to be among the finest fights of Chan's career. He cameoed as a kickboxer in the Troma film Ragin' Cajun. The movie, filmed in 1988 and released in 1991, wrongfully asserted that it featured Urquidez's first film appearance—the fallacious text, as written in the opening credits, is: Introducing Benny 'The Jet' Urquidez. Urquidez appeared again in the 1989 film Roadhouse as one of the fighters seen at a car dealership that is partially destroyed in some of the film's elaborately choreographed mayhem. He also trained Patrick Swayze in his own fighting techniques for the film. He then made an appearance in the 1991 film Blood Match. In 1992, he played a referee in the James Woods / Louis Gossett, Jr. film Diggstown and followed it with another cameo appearance in the movie Street Fighter (1994), playing one of several prisoners put in a truck with Ken, ]]Ryu]], Sagat and Vega; Urquidez also helped Grand L. Bush train for his role as Balrog. He was set to play a different character in the franchise, this time in the game based on the movie, but the character, Raven, was later scrapped.

Urquidez performed in the film Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) as Felix La Poubelle (note that la poubelle means the dustbin in French), a hitman sent to kill a character played by John Cusack. More recently, he appeared in 1408 (2007), again with John Cusack. In reality, Urquidez is Cusack's long-time kickboxing trainer. Urquidez also appeared as one of several thugs who accost Kirsten Dunst's character in the first Spider-Man film during an attempted robbery; Urquidez plays the thug wearing a black-and-white-striped t-shirt who makes kissing noises at Dunst. Appeared in a 30 sec role playing an underground MMA referee in and episode entitled The Bittersweet Science is the tenth episode of Season Seven of Criminal Minds.