# Have any actors ever gotten seriously injured by melee weapons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-actors-ever-gotten-seriously-injured-by-melee-weapons/519492 "2009-11-30T17:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-actors-ever-gotten-seriously-injured-by-melee-weapons/519492/41 "2009-12-06T04:03:58Z")
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**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-actors-ever-gotten-seriously-injured-by-melee-weapons/519492/42 "2009-12-06T04:11:02Z")
Jackie Chan has always been injured during routine stunts. In dangerous stunts, he’s taken proper safeguards. In Police Story 3, he almost died in a stunt where he was riding a bicycle, crashed into a tree, and then fell out of the tree (less than 1 meter.) He landed on a small stone and it punched a hole in his skull, which is still there today. He let Jay Leno feel his brain on the Tonight Show once. In Rumble in the Bronx, he jumped about 1 meter onto a hovercraft. He didn’t know the hovercraft had a frictionless surface, he slipped, and broke his ankle. In later scenes, they painted the cast to look like his sneaker, and he finished the movie. In Police Story 1, he received 3rd degree burns on his hands when he slid down 3 levels of a mall on a pole. He didn’t know the pole’s lights would break, giving him electric burns. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-actors-ever-gotten-seriously-injured-by-melee-weapons/519492/43 "2009-12-06T04:13:55Z")
Here’s one that fits: Jackson “Rock” Pinckney, who played one of Fender’s pirates, lost his eye during filming when Jean-Claude Van Damme accidentally struck his eye with a prop knife. Pinckney sued Van Damme in a North Carolina court and was awarded $485,000. The scene where he lost his eye allegedly made it into the final cut of the movie. > **[Cyborg (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg_(film))** > > Cyborg\[a\] is a 1989 American martial-arts cyberpunk film directed by Albert Pyun. Jean-Claude van Damme stars as Gibson Rickenbacker, a mercenary who battles a group of murderous marauders led by Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn) along the East coast of the United States in a post-apocalyptic future. It was followed by the sequels Cyborg 2 (1993) and Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994). > A plague known as the living death cripples civilization. A small group of surviving scientists and doctors — located... ---
**Author:** ![Pigs\_in\_Space](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@Pigs\_in\_Space](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pigs_in_Space)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-actors-ever-gotten-seriously-injured-by-melee-weapons/519492/44 "2009-12-06T05:55:24Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > David Niven says he once tripped and put his sword into an extra’s leg; fortunately, it was wooden. Which was wooden, the sword or the leg? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-actors-ever-gotten-seriously-injured-by-melee-weapons/519492/45 "2009-12-06T17:52:32Z")
> [@Pigs\_in\_Space](#): > > Which was wooden, the sword or the leg? Real sword, wooden leg. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-actors-ever-gotten-seriously-injured-by-melee-weapons/519492/46 "2009-12-06T18:34:17Z")
In the forward for William Hobbs’ _Fight Direction for Stage and Screen_ Lawrence Olivier list the litany of his combat accidents including an arrow shot between the lower leg bones on one leg. I personally have a chipped jawbone from one rehearsal accident and been stabbed in the chest. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-actors-ever-gotten-seriously-injured-by-melee-weapons/519492.md?page=2)