Michael Dudikoff is the proud star of American Ninja parts one, two, and four. Despite the popularity of ninjas in 1980s action films, they were never the forte of guys like Schwarzenegger and Stallone. Instead, they were often regulated to Chuck Norris or plain-faced nobodies like Michael Dudikoff whenever Chuck Norris was too busy.
Having come to film from the modeling world, Dudikoff was simply too handsome to take seriously as an 1980's action icon. He actually studied Braziilian Jiu-Jitsu, but he looks too much like a Brazillian wax guy for it to matter.
