Stefanos Miltsakakis, the powerful martial arts muscleman who squared off against Jean-Claude Van Damme in Maximum Risk, The Quest and three other action films, has died.
He was 59.Miltsakakis died in his sleep on Jan.
10 at his home in Santa Monica, his longtime personal manager, Stephen Brown, told The Hollywood Reporter.
“He was a mentor to so many of us who was blessed to have known him,” Brown said.As the Russian thug Red Face in Maximum Risk (1996), the hulking Miltsakakis fights Van Damme in a blazing building, in a sauna (where somehow their towels stay on) and finally …
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