Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Eric Roberts — Alex Grady in Best of the Best, Sal Maroni in The Dark Knight, James Munroe in The Expendables, Buck McGeehy in Runaway Train, the Sweet brothers in The Cable Guy. Eight hundred and nine films. More than Samuel L. Jackson and Nicolas Cage combined. You've seen him in everything. You can't name him. Now you know why.
He was Oscar-nominated at twenty-nine for an action film written by Akira Kurosawa — a year before Sigourney Weaver got nominated for Aliens. He trained for three months under a real-deal Tae Kwon Do practitioner to lead Best of the Best with zero martial arts background. Sylvester Stallone picked him over Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Ben Kingsley, and Ray Liotta for The Expendables. Christopher Nolan personally pulled him into The Dark Knight after fifteen years in the DTV wilderness. He had three Golden Globe nominations and an Oscar nod before his younger sister Julia Roberts had shot a single frame of film. Then a 1981 car crash, a 1987 arrest, and a fourteen-year estrangement from his own family inverted the trajectory.
How does he compare to Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mickey Rourke, Sylvester Stallone, Phillip Rhee, Julia Roberts and Christopher Walken?
And what really happened to Eric Roberts?
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00:00 Who is Eric Roberts?
02:01 History
03:58 Oscar Nomation
04:34 Arrest
05:54 Best of the Best
07:33 Feud with Julia Roberts
09:33 Too Many Movies?
11:54 The Dark Knight
15:08 Rating
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Eric Roberts — Alex Grady in Best of the Best, Sal Maroni in The Dark Knight, James Munroe in The Expendables, Buck McGeehy in Runaway Train, the Sweet brothers in The Cable Guy. Eight hundred and nine films. More than Samuel L. Jackson and Nicolas Cage combined. You've seen him in everything. You can't name him. Now you know why.
He was Oscar-nominated at twenty-nine for an action film written by Akira Kurosawa — a year before Sigourney Weaver got nominated for Aliens. He trained for three months under a real-deal Tae Kwon Do practitioner to lead Best of the Best with zero martial arts background. Sylvester Stallone picked him over Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Ben Kingsley, and Ray Liotta for The Expendables. Christopher Nolan personally pulled him into The Dark Knight after fifteen years in the DTV wilderness. He had three Golden Globe nominations and an Oscar nod before his younger sister Julia Roberts had shot a single frame of film. Then a 1981 car crash, a 1987 arrest, and a fourteen-year estrangement from his own family inverted the trajectory.
How does he compare to Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mickey Rourke, Sylvester Stallone, Phillip Rhee, Julia Roberts and Christopher Walken?
And what really happened to Eric Roberts?
#EricRoberts #BestOfTheBest #RunawayTrain #TheDarkKnight #Maroni #TheExpendables #Star80 #BobFosse #TheCableGuy #PhillipRhee #JuliaRoberts #SylvesterStallone #ChristopherNolan #MickeyRourke #ActionStars #ForgottenStars #WhatHappenedTo #MovieFights #FightChoreography
00:00 Who is Eric Roberts?
02:01 History
03:58 Oscar Nomation
04:34 Arrest
05:54 Best of the Best
07:33 Feud with Julia Roberts
09:33 Too Many Movies?
11:54 The Dark Knight
15:08 Rating
ENQUIRIES
film@londonnewwave.com
WATCH THE FULL SERIES — Who's the #1 Rated Action Star?
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXo1_mIWFdFZ5WxsqAQEafTPoRTQSpB2
SUPPORT ON PATREON
patreon.com/CinemaisDying
JOIN THE CHANNEL FOR PERKS
youtube.com/channel/UCkgUC9mpe_4RUkipeoGkiCg/join
SECOND CHANNEL — Football breakdowns
youtube.com/@FootballTheory
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