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Hennie Bosman is a movie stunt fighter who:

As a 9 year old, started training in karate in 1965.
Won the world senior Karate championship in Osaka, Japan in 2001.
Is currently chairman of Kyokushinkan Africa with more than 30 000 members in 10 countries.
Acts as sensai to 1000 students in 35 Cape Town based schools.
Has represented South Africa in Traditional Karate, kickboxing and knockdown Karate.
Has been multiple national chapion in Kata (form) and Kumute (fighting).
Has visited Japan on more than 40 occasions as competitor and coach for the national team and to train in the art of Karate.
Currently holds the rank of 7th Dan.
Is one of the highest graded westerners in the Karate world.
Is the first westerner to be asked to do a demonstration at the Japanese national tournament.
Is the first westerner to be invited by Mugai-Ryu to visit Japan to train in the Japanese lai method of fighting (traditional Japanese sword fighting).
Also studies lai do (sword striking), Ikken (energy training) and Ura waza (opponents joint control).

He was bullied as a child and his mother read about Karate in the Reader's Digest. When the first Karate school opened in Belville he was sent to the school to learn how to defend himself. Hennie had never learnt to fight as he didnt have male siblings.

Height: 1.97m/6 ft 6 in

Weight: 120Kg / 260 lb

Marital Status: Married to Hayley with two sons (Henry and Alistaire)

Has successfully raced standard, modified and sports cars for 15 years. Is a single handicap golfer and takes part in long driving competitions. Is a keen rugby player, field athlete and boxer.

2007 Drona (with Priyanka Chopra and Abishek Bachman) - plays a mad axe man (filming)
2007 Doomsday (with Rhona Mitra) - plays the gladiator Telamon, who serves the warlord Kane. Hennie fights with the leading lady in a final fight scene in the gladiator's pit (post production).
2007 Gallowalker (with Wesley Snipes and Patrick Bergen) - plays executioner and shares screen credits with Dallas Page for Skull Bucket. Hennie plays one of the undead that comes back to seek vengence from his killer (post production).
2007 Purple Cloud - details still to be confirmed (post production)
2006 Super Nova - Hennie plays an angry motorist.
2006 The Avenger (with Sam Elliot) - Hennie plays a bodyguard.
2006 The Marksman (with Wesley Snipes) - Hennie plays a Chetchian rebel leader guardian a captured Russian nuclear power station. Snipes and his men are the heroes that need to save the building.
2005 The Ring (with Rolf Muller) - Hennie doubled for Rolf Muller in fight scenes.
2004 Wake of Death (with Jean-Claude Van Damme) - an action film about the Chinese Mafia. Hennie was the leaders bodyguard and assassin.

2005 Charlie Jade (Canadian TV series) - played the part of a bodyguard and was given the nickname "Tinkerbell " as he made Mike Tyson look like Tinkerbell.

2006 Number Ten (with Colin Moss and Mandoza) - Hennie plays a fighter who gets tangled in a bar room brawl.

2006 Orion (MNET TV series) - Hennie plays a serial killer, Bushy Schlebush.
2006 Isidingo (SABC 3 TV series) - Hennie plays a fight club fighter named Nick.
2007 Malan and Kie (SABC 2 TV series) - Hennie plays the part of a bodyguard named Tiny.
Projects in the Pipeline: Scorched - Hennie plays the lead role of a genetically engineered super-soldier. Date of release to be confirmed.

2008 Topfield (Finland) - plays a soccer referee on both TV and print campaign.
2008 KFC (Poland) - plays the main player
2007 Telecommunications (Ireland) - plays a Karate instructor.
2006 Bavaria Beer (Holland) - plays the barman.
2006 M&M (USA) - plays a slave driver on a slave ship.

2004 Sasol SA Rugby (South Africa) - plays a mean rugby player
2008 Spur South Africa - plays the mean man in the waiting room.

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