With an intimidating face like craggy granite, and his towering 6' 5 solid, frame Mike Mazurki (born Mikhail Mazurski) was one of the cinema's first serial thugs and he specialised in playing strong arm men, gangsters and bullies for over fifty years on screen. Nearly always portrayed as a low brow thug, in real life Mazurski was highly intelligent, very well read and a witty conversationist. He was also an accomplished sportsman with his ventures in American football and wrestling. He first ...[Read Story]