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Colonel James Thomas Braddock is the protagonist in the Missing In Action series of films. He is portrayed by Chuck Norris. Braddock is stated to be “Colonel in the Army's Special Forces, prisoner of war for 8 months, and missing in action for 7 years.”Played by the actor
Filmography of James Thomas Braddock (3 films)
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, 1h35Directed by Aaron Norris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Chuck Norris, Aki Aleong, Roland Harrah III, Keith David
Rating49%
Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris), Vietnam veteran, had believed his Asian wife Lin Tan Cang (Miki Kim) to be dead since the war ended in 1975, but he hears from a missionary, Reverend Polanski (Yehuda Efroni), that Lin is not only alive, but has a 12-year-old son named Van Tan Cang (Roland Harrah III), who is Braddock's son.
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams, Sergio Kato, Mischa Hausserman
Rating53%
Ten years before freeing American POWs from a brutal General, Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) was held in a North Vietnamese POW camp run by sadistic Colonel Yin (Soon-Teck Oh), who forces the POWs to grow opium for a French drug runner named François (Pierre Issot), and tries to get Braddock to admit to and sign a long list of war crimes. During his team's time in captivity, they are relentlessly subjected to various forms of humiliating torture, and Braddock being told that his wife has left him and has remarried. One of Braddock's comrades starts to suffer with malaria, and is injected with what they are told to be antibiotics. They later find out that he was in fact injected with a lethal dose of opium instead. Braddock must escape and rescue his fellow prisoners from Yin.
Missing in Action (1984)
, 1h45Directed by Joseph Zito
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, James Hong, Lenore Kasdorf, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pierrino Mascarino
Rating54%
Colonel James Braddock is an American officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago. After the bloodiest war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that goes to Ho Chi Minh City to check out reports of Americans still held prisoner. Braddock gets the evidence then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck, an old Army buddy turned black market kingpin. Together, they launch a mission deep into the jungle to free the American POW's from General Trau.