Jeffrey Falcon

Falcon initially studied taekwondo, but in the 1980s began practicing wushu. He won several state and national championships in California, between 1982 and 1983.^[3] In 1984, he studied with the Beijing Wushu Team under coach Wu Bin.^[3] He was a member of the US National Wushu Team from 1985 to 1988.^[2] He represented the United States at the 1st International Invitational Wushu Championships in Xi'an in August 1985.^[2] He later became a wushu coach, and graduated from Beijing Sport University.

Falcon began his film career in Chinese-language martial arts films.^[4] While living in Taiwan, teaching English and martial arts, he was noticed by Jackie Chan after a television performance. Falcon was then invited to appear in a film in Hong Kong, which led to subsequent film work.^[5]

In total, he appeared in seventeen action films,^[6] including Outlaw Brothers^[7] and The Inspector Wears Skirts.^[8] He adopted the Chinese stage name Git Foo (Chinese: 傑夫; pinyin: Jié fū; Jyutping: Git⁶ Fu¹; lit. 'Jeff').^[9] Although Falcon sought to continue his studies in Buddhism and Chinese, he was dissatisfied with being typecast as a villain and in smaller roles. He returned to the United States to pursue larger acting roles.^[5]

In California, Falcon began working with Lance Mungia in 1996 to develop the script for a samurai movie, which eventually became Six-String Samurai. After Mungia observed one night that Falcon looked like Buddy Holly, the two developed the idea of incorporating rock and roll into the film.^[5] In addition to starring as Buddy in the film, Falcon did fight choreography, production design, and costume design.^[10]

According to a 2003 interview with fellow Hong Kong martial artist and actor, John Ladalski, Falcon retired from films and returned to China, where he married and pursued other work.^[11]