David Light

David Light


Died: September 6, 2020
David Light was an American actor who settled in The Philippines during the 1970's. During the 1980's he had several large and small roles in Filipino productions as well as foreign films made locally. His acting career ended in 1991 as the local film industry went quiet. In 2020 he was stabbed to death in his home in Olongapo by two young men. He was 75 years old.

Movies for David Light...

Indio 2 - The Revolt
Title: Indio 2 - The Revolt
Character: IMC Officer (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1991
Type: Movie
A corporation building a highway through the rainforest hires a gang of mercenaries to get rid of the local Indians, who don't want the highway built through their lands. The mercenaries resort to murder, massacres and enslavement to rid the company of its Indian problem. Sgt. Irons, a former Marine NCO, helps to unite the jungle tribes and leads them in their fight to protect their homes and their families.
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Blood Chase
Title: Blood Chase
Character: Eddie Nichols
Released: February 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A wife drags her husband on a dangerous cross-continental journey to find the truth about her father's death.
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Crime Stopper
Title: Crime Stopper
Released: September 28, 1990
Type: Movie
A CIA team is sent into Vietnam to rescue two soldiers captured by a drug lord.
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The Black Cobra 3
Title: The Black Cobra 3
Character: Jackson
Released: June 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Shipment of American weapons is stolen in the Philippines. An American named Hawkins tries to find the weapons. Hawkins ends up dead. Chicago policeman Bob Malone is called in to investigate. Along with Interpol agent Greg Duncan, Malone travels the streets of Manila, tracking down leads. Criminals always seem to know where Duncan and Malone will be, which leads them to suspect a traitor in their midst.
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Indio
Title: Indio
Character: 'Softball Team' Member (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1989
Type: Movie
A half-breed Marine takes on greedy industrialists in the Amazonian rain forests. Marvelous Marvin proves his ability as a fighter!
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Trigon Fire
Title: Trigon Fire
Character: William Shield
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A bounty hunter is hired to go after an Irish terrorist.
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Last Platoon
Title: Last Platoon
Released: August 21, 1988
Type: Movie
After ex-cop and highly decorated war hero Chet Costa's Vietnamese girlfriend disappears, he accepts a risky mission: he shall blow up a bridge at the Vietnamese border to close the Vietcong's line of communication. He's given a group of prisoners to accompany him. Already on the way there their helicopter is shot down; a march through the wilderness begins. When his soldiers recognize that they're effectively on a suicide mission, they decide to get rid of their Seargent and to flee to Bangkok.
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The Last American Soldier
Title: The Last American Soldier
Character: Vlassov
Released: June 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Commander and his small band of freedom fighters make life difficult for the VC after the Vietnam War is over. They free Vietnamese prisoners, and destroy enemy convoys every chance they can get. This severely upsets the evil Russian Vlasov, who is working with the VC in various nefarious enterprises. An ultra-violent, Rambo style movie filmed in the Philippines.
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Final Reprisal
Title: Final Reprisal
Released: May 25, 1988
Type: Movie
Sergeant David Callahan leads a task force of U.S. Marines on a failed mission. Five years later, working as an adviser to Thai Special Forces, he is forced to return to the Vietnamese P.O.W. camp he escaped years before, to fight a deadly duel.
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Killer Instinct
Title: Killer Instinct
Character: Nash
Released: May 1, 1988
Type: Movie
For America, the Vietnam War is over. Johnny doesn't see it that way. This Special Forces soldier battles vicious Vietcong, a sadistic Russian advisor and his own peacenik girlfriend as he embarks on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
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SFX Retaliator
Title: SFX Retaliator
Character: Jerome Massini
Released: February 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Special effects producer Steve Baker will help a woman being chased by the Mafia, but then they followed him and his wife.
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Fast Gun
Title: Fast Gun
Character: Popkin
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
CIA Colonel Harper's men are robbing military armories in order to supply South American rebels. They hide near Granite Lake, a small town policed by sheriff Jack Steiger. When colonel's men let loose on the town, Jack must stop them.
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The Sisterhood
Title: The Sisterhood
Character: Jev
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The year is 2021 AD. Women have been enslaved by a brutal army of men who survived the nuclear holocaust. Their only hope for freedom is in the hands of a nomadic band of fierce she-warriors: The Sisterhood.
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Saigon Commandos
Title: Saigon Commandos
Character: Jack Alberts
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A series of drug-related murders haunt Saigon. Ex-Green Beret Mark Stryker and his MP's must find the culprits. With the help of Jean Lassiter, a nosey reporter covering the crime beat, Stryker uncovers the involvement of corrupt politicians in the heroin trade and in the killings. But before he can pin them down, Stryker is framed for the murder of his commanding officer and now he must clear his name, free Lassiter from her captors, and stop his men from carrying out their own kind of vengeance before it is too late.
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Passage to Hell
Title: Passage to Hell
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Filipino Vietnam War movie
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Demon of Paradise
Title: Demon of Paradise
Character: Snake
Released: April 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Hunters become the hunted when illegal dynamite disturbs the ageold slumber of a carnivorous lizardman. Resort owner Angela, joins forces with Sheriff Keefer to save tourists from the beast's path of death.
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Phantom Soldiers
Title: Phantom Soldiers
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Daniel Custer leaves for Vietnam to find his brother Michael, a Green Beret Lieutenant who has been reported missing in action. Michael's squad was searching for a mysterious group of 'phantom soldiers' that had been using US-made arms for massacring villages and killing unarmed civilians. Daniel goes out on his own into the jungles of Vietnam to find his brother and stop these killers.
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Eye of the Eagle
Title: Eye of the Eagle
Character: Sgt. Maddox
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
"The Lost Command," a bunch of notorious renegades, terrorize South Vietnam, forcing Sgt. Zack Skinner, HQ's best man to hunt down the Command to stop its killing spree.
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Opposing Force
Title: Opposing Force
Character: Guard
Released: August 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A group of elite soldiers, including one woman, sign up for the ultimate training mission. The group parachutes onto a remote island, where their objective is to reach the safety zone before the "opposing force" captures them. Everything does not go as expected, and the training mission turns into the real thing.
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Cobra Mission
Title: Cobra Mission
Character: Prisoner
Released: July 31, 1986
Type: Movie
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
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Future Hunters
Title: Future Hunters
Character: Zaar
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A man from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to prevent the coming nuclear holocaust and enlists the help of a young couple.
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American Commandos
Title: American Commandos
Character: Lev
Released: November 11, 1985
Type: Movie
A group of Vietnam vets are sent to Southeast Asia to destroy drug-smuggling operations in the Golden Triangle. When they get there, they find that many of the drug gangs are run by other Vietnam vets.
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Commando Leopard
Title: Commando Leopard
Character: Mercenary (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1985
Type: Movie
A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise resistance. Under the leader "El Leopardo" a small group of guerillas fights against the violent government.
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Warriors of the Apocalypse
Title: Warriors of the Apocalypse
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
After a nuclear war with civilization's death as a result leads an adventurer, a group of hikers on their search for the Mountain of Life. On their way they meet pygmy tribes, brutal gangs and amazon women.
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Hunters Crossing
Title: Hunters Crossing
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A mercenary is sent to rescue a millionaire's son captured by Filipino pirates.
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The Last Blood
Title: The Last Blood
Character: US Soldier
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A soldier attacks his corrupt superior officer and is court marshalled but before he can be sent to a firing squad he escapes...