Biography
Muscular African American sports star, actor, media identity and inventor of the phenomenally popular "Tae Bo" fitness system, derived from his extensive martial arts training. Blanks was born in Eerie, Pennsylvania in 1955 amongst humble backgrounds and grew up as one of 15 children, battling dyslexia and tendon problems. However that didn't stop him from starting his martial arts training at age 14 and eventually achieving black belts in tae kwon do & several other arts, and winning numerous U...
Known For
Complete Filmography

American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures
2024
as Self (archive footage)
The documentary celebrates some of the unsung action stars of the late eighties/nineties in the North American Pictures Catalog. From Cynthia Rothrock...

The Last Kumite
2024
as Master Loren
When Karate champion Michael Rivers wins the last tournament of his career, shady businessman Ron Hall offers him the opportunity to fight in an illeg...

The Circuit 4: Faith Fighter
2024
as Samson
An aging retired fighter has to get back to the ring in order to save a young student

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019
as Self
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong ...

The Clapper
2018
as Billy Blanks
Eddie Krumble works as a paid audience member for infomercials and experiences a whirlwind of overnight fame after a late-night talk show host publici...

Almost Amazing
2017
as Mr. Wilson
When three best friends are forced to fall in love in order to save their jobs, they learn that letting go is a lot harder then it seems.
The Ultimate Goal
2017
Follow the number 1 ranked youth soccer team in America as they play professional youth soccer teams in the UK before returning for their final tourna...

Dark Moon Rising
2015
as Sheriff Tom
A group of shape-shifting werewolves descend upon a small town in search of a girl who is re-born once every 2000 years. She holds the key to their su...

The Real Miyagi
2015
as Self
The life of Fumio Demura, the greatest karate master of a generation.

Billy Blanks: Tae Bo Platinum Collection
2014
as Self
Billy Blanks is bringing you the ultimate in cardiovascular and strength training with Tae Bo Platinum Collection. This collection mixes the best of t...

Billy Blanks TaeBo Express
2012
as Instructor
Now there's always time for Tae Bo! These 10-minute workouts use all of the best Tae Bo techniques in an Express format that gives you a serious worko...

Jack and Jill
2011
as Billy Blanks
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit ...

Billy Blanks: This Is Tae Bo
2010
as Himself
This is the definitive Tae Bo workout. It brings you the best overall body workout combining cardio, sculpting and ab training for maximum fat burning...

Billy Blanks Tae Bo: Amped Fat Burn Accelerator
2007
as Billy Blanks
Billy Blanks s Tae Bo system has been helping people lose weight and look great for years and Billy has continuously incorporated new techniques into ...

Billy Blanks: Ultimate Tae Bo
2007
as Billy Blanks
Billy Blanks: Ultimate Tae Bo 10th Anniversary Edition

Billy's BootCamp Elite: Mission One - Get Started
2006
This innovative program combines the tried and true Tae Bo and BootCamp techniques adn now goes one step farther. These amazing new workouts are fun, ...

Billy's BootCamp Elite: Mission Two - Maximum Power
2006
This innovative program combines the tried and true Tae Bo and BootCamp techniques adn now goes one step farther. These amazing new workouts are fun, ...

Billy's BootCamp Elite: Mission Three - Rock Solid Abs
2006
This innovative program combines the tried and true Tae Bo and BootCamp techniques adn now goes one step farther. These amazing new workouts are fun, ...

Billy's BootCamp Elite: 8 Minute Supercharge Cardio
2006
This innovative program combines the tried and true Tae Bo and BootCamp techniques adn now goes one step farther. These amazing new workouts are fun, ...

Billy's Bootcamp Elite: Mission Spot Training - Lower Body
2006
Here's the key to long, lean perfectly sculpted legs - Billy Blanks' Mission Spot Training: Lower Body workout from Billy's Bootcamp Elite series! Let...

Billy's BootCamp: Basic Training Bootcamp
2005
as Billy Blanks
In BASIC TRAINING BootCamp™, Billy teaches you exactly how to get started on the path to a better you. In this workout, he takes his experience from ...

Billy's BootCamp: Ultimate BootCamp
2005
as Himself
Ultimate BootCamp is designed by Billy to be the fastest hour in fitness. This is the workout that ties it all together: cardio, upper-body toning, lo...

Billy Blanks: Tae Bo Kicks
2005
as Himself
In this workout, Billy takes the basics of his world-famous TAE BO(r) moves and adapts them just for kids to create a fast-moving, entertaining routin...

Billy Blanks' Tae Bo: Total Body Fat Blaster
2005
as Himself
Banish flab from every part of your body by taking-and keeping-it off once and for all with these rapid-fire moves, high-energy music and Billy 's uni...

Billy's Bootcamp: Cardio Bootcamp Live!
2004
Billy Blanks brings you another ultra-effective cardio workout, but this time it's Live! Using the beautiful backdrop of Venice beach, California, Bil...
Billy Blanks - Tae Bo: Strength Power
2004
as Billy Blanks
Billy Blanks Tae Bo workout video, contains strength and power workouts.

Billy Blanks: Tae Bo Cardio
2003
As a seven-time Martial Arts Champion, Billy knows how to create a routine that is honest and effective with no fad diets, fancy gimmicks, or complica...

Billy Blanks: Tae Bo Flex
2003
Considered the pilates of Tae Bo, Billy Blanks: Tae Bo Flex focuses on core stability and toning exercises. As with most Tae Bo productions, this DVD ...

Billy Blanks' TaeBo Believer's Workout: The Strength Within
2003
as Himself
The Strength Within is an exciting new program from the Tae Bo Believers Workout series to help you firm and tone on the outside, while building a str...

Billy's Bootcamp 1: Tae Bo
2003
Bootcamp 1 will transform your body like nothing you've ever tried before! To get you started on your way to a new you, it combines a calorie-blasting...

Billy's Bootcamp 2: Tae Bo
2003
In Bootcamp 2, you will firm, tone and sculpt your muscles for a perfect body, while getting the cardio workout that will keep you at the top of your...

The Best of TaeBo: Ultimate Upper Body
2002
as Himself
Forearms, biceps, triceps, shoulders, chest - all these muscle groups are included in TaeBo’s Ultimate Upper Body. This workout targets each individua...

TaeBo II: Get Ripped - Advanced 1 Workout
2001
as Himself
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that ...

TaeBo II: Get Ripped - Advanced 2 Workout
2001
as Himself
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that ...

TaeBo II: Get Ripped - 8-Minute Workout
2001
as Himself
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that ...

TaeBo II: Get Ripped - Basic 1 Workout
2001
Get Ripped is the most complete set of workouts for total body fitness. It will continue to energize you with fast-paced new moves and new music that ...

Billy Blanks' Tae Bo: Gold
2000
as Himself
Billy Blanks, seven-time World Martial Arts Champion and the creator of the original Tae Bo, introduces Tae Bo Gold, an awesome new workout for men an...

Billy Blanks' Tae Bo: 8-Minute Workout
1999
as Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.

Billy Blanks' Tae Bo: Advanced Workout
1999
as Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.

Billy Blanks' Tae Bo: Basic Workout
1999
as Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.

Billy Blanks' Tae Bo: Instructional
1999
as Himself
Billy Blanks Ultimate Tae-Bo Total Body Workout For Men And Women! A mixture of boxing punches and martial arts kicks, Tae-Bo is fun and easy.

Masters of the Martial Arts Presented by Wesley Snipes
1998
as Self
Special honoring the grand masters of the martial arts with guest stars from film and television, music performances, live demonstrations, competition...

Assault on Devil's Island
1997
as Craegan
When one of Mike McBride's men goes rogue and takes a group of gymnasts hostage to Devil's Island in exchange for the return of drug lord Carlos Galli...

Kiss the Girls
1997
as Instructor
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," ...

Kazaam
1996
Stunts
When Max fools a gang of local toughs, he finds himself in big trouble. Fleeing from the thugs, Max runs into an old warehouse and bumps into a boom b...

Balance of Power
1996
as Niko
A martial arts expert who runs a dojo for under-privileged kids from a dilapidated warehouse is shaken down by gangsters demanding protection money. T...
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
1995
as Self
The first video to combine international martial arts together with interviews and demonstrations by celebrities of Hollywood.

Expect No Mercy
1995
as Justin Vanier
Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the mysterious Virtual Arts Academy in search of Eric, a fellow agent. In this hig...

Tough and Deadly
1995
as John Portland
A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of their drug operation.

Back in Action
1994
as Billy
Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.

Showdown
1993
as Billy Grant
Ken has just moved from Kansas with his mother. He talks to a girl named Julie, not knowing that her boyfriend Tom is very possessive of her. Tom is l...

TC 2000
1993
as Jason Storm
Somewhere in the future the environmental overkill had come. Many people had died. The rich were able to build the underworld, the poor had to stay on...

Invincible
1992
as Billy
Timid and wimpy triad gangster, Kit, is the right-hand man to gangster Brother Fire, who, in a bid to protect his younger sister Mandy from unwelcome ...

Talons of the Eagle
1992
as Tyler Wilson
After 3 DEA agents are killed by crime boss Mr. Li, the DEA reluctantly calls in New York cop and martial arts expert Tyler Wilson and sends him under...

The Master
1992
as Hawks Gang Member
When Master Tak, an old martial arts master, disappears, his best student, Jet, steps in to find him. However, when he learns that Tak's life is in da...

The Last Boy Scout
1991
as Billy Cole
When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case...

Timebomb
1991
as Mr. Brown
When someone tries to murder watchmaker Eddy Kay, the incident triggers a barrage of nightmares and flashbacks into a past that isn't his own. Fearing...

The King of the Kickboxers
1990
as Khan
Jake, a New York policeman poses as an actor to expose the making of martial-arts death movies in Thailand.

Lionheart
1990
as African Legionnaire
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-...

China O'Brien II
1990
as Baskin's Fighter #1 (uncredited)
This time China O'Brien has trouble with a dealer who puts a price on her head because she had spoiled an important drug deal of his. But all the worl...

China O'Brien II
1990
Stunts
This time China O'Brien has trouble with a dealer who puts a price on her head because she had spoiled an important drug deal of his. But all the worl...

Driving Force
1990
as Pool
In the near future Steve takes a job as a tow truck driver that has to battle a gang of baddies led by Nelson.

Tango & Cash
1989
as Prison Thug (uncredited)
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income t...

Bloodfist
1989
as Black Rose
To avenge the brutal murder of his brother, Jake Ray journeys to the Philippines, where his search for truth finds him battling both in and out of the...

Low Blow
1986
as Guard
Joe Wong is a private investigator who goes in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam ...

Devotion
N/A
as Billy Blanks
A pastor bumps into an old trainer and begins boxing after his wife retires from MMA fighting.