Mel Novak born Milan Mrdjenovich, has been one of the finest screen villains of his generation. Playing against a spectrum of Hollywood"s leading action heroes. But before all of that he was a professional baseball player for The Pittsburgh Pirates as well as a successful modeling career until fate stepped in and made him a film legend.
His action film appearances span over 40 years of multitude of genres and a who's who of action icons.
Starting with Jim Kelly in Black Belt Jones, Yul Brynner and Max von Sydow in The Ultimate Warrior, Steve McQueen in Tom Horn, Chuck Norris and Christopher Lee in An Eye for An Eye. Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell in Exit to Eden But his iconic role was playing the assassin "stick" in The Game of Death opposite Bruce Lee.
Mr. Novak has been working steady and creating new iconic characters in the genre with leads in Samurai Cop 2, Syndicate Smasher, Check Point, Marilyn: The Zombie Hunter, Toxic Tuto.
