Matthias Hues

ACTOR, WRITER

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Matthias Hues was born on Valentine's Day in Waltrop, Germany, to the late Dr. Josef Hues and Maria Humperdinck Hues who still resides in Germany. Maria is the niece of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of the opera Hansel and Gretel.Matthias was very involved in sports from an early age on. By the time he was 19 he was part of the team that won the German pentathlon championship in Hannover and he later became Germany's hopeful in track and field. He also took up martial arts due to his ability to move extremely fast for his 6'5" height and 250-pound weight.After graduating from school, Matthias moved to Paris to fulfill his early dream of entering Hotel management. Once there he joined one of the most prestigious health clubs in Paris, which had just been bombarded with the new Jane Fonda aerobic exercise program from the US. Matthias recognized an opportunity when he saw one, then and after returning to Germany he gave up his idea of going into Hotel management and instead opened two health clubs, flying in aerobic teachers from the USA.It was during that time when he became obsessed with America and the American way of life, and due to his spectacular physique and bigger-than-life appearance and personality, it wasn't long before some people suggested that he should try to enter the entertainment industry, so he sold his clubs and boarded a plane to Los Angeles.He immediately joined Gold's Gym in Venice, California, the mecca of bodybuilding and entertainment personalities. Within a few weeks Derek Barton, a former Hollywood stuntman, and formerly one of Gold's managing directors, received a frantic call from a producer who had just lost Jean-Claude Van Damme for his movie and needed someone to replace him immediately. Derek didn't hesitate to send Matthias to test for the role, and Matthias managed to convince the producers to give him the part, despite having no acting experience whatsoever. The movie, No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder (1987), was a moderate success, and opened the door for Matthias to make more films.He established himself quickly as a powerhouse in the action genre and began appearing in more films, his most successful to date being Dark Angel (1990). Over the years he recognized that his outstanding physique and size would not always be a plus in his acting career, so if needed he would reshape his look, dropping up to 40 pounds at times for various roles, and he began studying with some of the industry's best acting and speech coaches.Matthias played a variety of roles in his films, from a gladiator turned private investigator in Age of Treason (1993) to an aging hit-man in Finding Interest (1995) to a bumbling idiot trying to kidnap a rich kid in Alone in the Woods (1996) to a dancing lion tamer in Big Top Pee-wee (1988). He also played a Klingon general in Star Trek VI: Das unentdeckte Land (1991). Matthias is one of the few foreign actors who managed to loose his accent to the extent that many people in his own country don't even know that he is from Germany.Matthias recently began writing and producing. He is set to direct and produce his first full feature film; a spy thriller to be shot in Frankfurt and Rome. - IMDb Mini Biography By: author

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Releases by Year

Matthias Hues on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1990 to 2018. See the full graphs of the number of Matthias Hues movies released per year from 1990 till 2018.

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Matthias Hues works mostly in Action Genre followed by Thriller Genre flixes. 40% of Matthias Hues movies are Action Genre movies. See Top Genres that Matthias Hues worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Matthias Hues has worked on is 4.6.

4.6 / 10

Matthias Hues's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Action,Crime,Horror
Dark Angel (1990)

A Renegade Cop is forced to work with an FBI Agent in order to bring down a group of Drug Dealers with sinister plans.

6.1/1091 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

History,Mystery
Age of Treason (1993)

Marcus Didius Falco must solve a murder set in Ancient Rome.

6/1093 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Ex-cop protects a singer from a psycho serial killer.

4.9/1080 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

When a family member of one of their own is attacked, a team of former elite soldiers are called back into action and a ruthless game of kill or be killed is set in motion.

4.3/1093 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Action,Sci-Fi
Droid Gunner (1995)

In the future, the threat of global takeover by cyborg units has forced Earth to outlaw their use. But when four female androids are smuggled to Earth, Jack Ford is assigned to track them ...

4/1090 min

Available in 7 platform(s).