Albert Pyun was an American film director who made low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films.
12 Facts About Albert Pyun
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Albert Pyun's films include The Sword and the Sorcerer, Cyborg, Captain America, and Nemesis.
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Albert Pyun was a "military brat" and lived on bases around the world until his father settled in Hawaii.
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Albert Pyun went to school in Kailua, a small town located on the windward side of Oahu.
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Albert Pyun returned to Hawaii and began working as a commercial film editor at KGMB in Honolulu and edited commercials for agencies such as Bozell Jacobs and Leo Burnett.
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Albert Pyun's career took a more mainstream turn with the thriller Dangerously Close and the romantic adventure film Down Twisted, starring Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket and Courteney Cox.
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Albert Pyun's Cyborg opened as the fourth-highest-grossing film in America on April 7,1989.
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In 2011, twenty-two years after making Cyborg, Albert Pyun released his director's cut.
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In 2004, Albert Pyun went to the US territory of Guam and, along with film producer John Laing, convinced the Guam government to put up an $800,000 loan guarantee to finance their film Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon.
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Albert Pyun was not involved in any of the legal litigation between GEDA and Laing.
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In September 2008, Albert Pyun began production on Tales of an Ancient Empire.
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Albert Pyun died in Las Vegas on November 26,2022, at the age of 69.