Roy Horan III was an American actor and martial artist best known for his Hong Kong martial arts films.
15 Facts About Roy Horan
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Roy Horan was a student of Hwang Jang-lee, who appeared with Horan in several films.
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Roy Horan III was born in Laurel, Maryland in January 1950, the eldest of eight children born to Roy Horan Jr.
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Roy Horan married Christina Hui Din Fun on December 20,1981, and they had two daughters.
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Roy Horan died in Los Angeles, California, on October 12,2021, at the age of 71.
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Roy Horan made his film debut in the 1976 movie Bruce Lee's Secret as Charlie.
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Roy Horan went on to play Tolstoy in the 1977 film Snuff Bottle Connection, and the Russian priest in the 1978 film Snake in the Eagle's Shadow along with Jackie Chan and Hwang Jang-lee.
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In 1980s, Roy Horan appeared as Lewis in the 1981 film Game of Death II along with Tong Lung and Hwang Jang-lee.
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Roy Horan directed in the 1981 documentary Art of High Impact Kicking.
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Roy Horan played American Consular in 1987 film No Retreat, No Surrender 2, along with Hwang Jang-lee, Loren Avedon, Matthias Hues, Max Thayer and Cynthia Rothrock, which he wrote and produced.
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In 1991, Roy Horan retired from acting at the age of 41, after final film Shanghai 1920.
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Roy Horan served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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Roy Horan tackled social emotional learning for learning disabled children and trained others to develop an environmentally-friendly mindset.
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Roy Horan formulated the Ocean Model which combines empirical studies of creativity and intelligence with Eastern philosophical concepts on the same.
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Roy Horan conducted electrophysiological studies on the neuropsychological relationship between creativity and meditation and investigated the problem of creativity assessment, for which he developed the Creative Momentum Model, a tool for assessing creative achievement.