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I heard that Dolph Lundgren is really smart


supposedly he went to harvard so it's kind weird picturing him doing these kind of action films.

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Yeah apparently he's got a degree in biochemistry or something like that. Also, Paul Walker has a degree in Marine Biology. If only he'd taken that up instead...

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Right on, chainsawrob. I've also heard that about Dolph Lundgren, but I can't remember the exact field his degree falls into. I just remember my friend telling me it was something in chemistry.

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It's a Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering.
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I heard he could speak five different languages flently. I imagine you could make a decent salary even on the lower direct-to-video stuff. So, that's what he did.

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In 1982, Lundgren graduated with a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney.

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The dumber the characters that they portray, the smarter they usualy are. It's almost a fact.

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yeah just look up lundgrens profile

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I always thought all guys from sweden were pretty smart ^^

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"The dumber the characters that they portray, the smarter they usualy are. It's almost a fact."

The smarter the characters that they portray, the dumber they usually are. It's almost a fact.

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Hey, I always thought he was smart. He was a former kickboxing champ who got a lucky break and ended up playing an iconic character in Rocky IV. He was smart enough to parlay that into a career as a working actor...with quite a few movies to his credit. Even if they were DTV, he got paid and I'm sure he had fun making a lot of them. Plus he got to be in some bigger flicks like The Punisher and Universal Soldier and now he's back doing a movie with Stallone again after all this time.
I respect actors who know they can't carry major studio films, or don't want to, but can still find a niche to keep working.
I also like the way he handles himself in interviews. he's well spoken and you can tell he's intelligent.

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Did you know that Stallone originally wanted him to play the big russian in first blood part 2 also. but he felt it would confuse people

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Well.. Smart..

He once said in an swedish interview here:

"Could we take this in english? I have forgotten the swedish language"

So how smart can this guy get?
Forgetting his native language..
That's something you just don't do if you've spoken it for at least 20 years..

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Hey but come on... the best degree hes got is in "Kickin Ass" theres no higher degree... all the others are worthless.

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That was just a joke.

he did however develope a small dialect. wich is kinda strange as his english doesnt have an accent.

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So
Everyone has a degree these days.

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But not everyone has an IQ of over 150, like Dolph...

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Heard him speaking swedish on swedish tele 2006 and it sounded just fine, no accent or anything.

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well thats now :p he is living in sweden again.
that other interview was made after him being away from sweden for several years.

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hahahaha, yeah, knightrider is right!! xD

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You've heard about a sense of humor, have you? Being swedish doesn't mean being without the ability to laugh, I hope?

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Lundgren´s IQ is 160. I read somewhere, don´t remember where, but it´s true.
Smart guy.

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Lundgren´s IQ is 160. I read somewhere, don´t remember where, but it´s true.


No it's not.
Dolph himself has said that was not true.

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Maybe not 160 but Dolph is a very intelligent guy, clearly way above average.

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Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) is an incredibly smart guy, but you only have to watch Blackadder to realize how smart and witty he is.

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Well, Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren are very underrated "auteurs"(actors/producers/film-makers/scrennwriter)!!...

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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000185/bio. THere you go, the facts.

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Dolph Lundgren graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology. He has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney (1982), and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983.

So there you have it.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_Lundgren#Biography

"Lundgren holds a 3rd Dan (3rd Degree Black Belt) in Kyokushin karate. He won the European championships in 1980 and 1981 as well as a heavyweight tournament in Australia in 1982. He was also captain of the Swedish Kyokushin Karate team, and was a formidable challenger at the 1979 World Open Tournament (arranged by the Kyokushin Karate Organization) when he was only a green belt.[citation needed] In addition to Kyokushin, karate Lundgren has also studied fencing, boxing, judo, goju-ryu, and taekwondo.

He graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology. He has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney (1982). He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983 — but quit after two weeks to pursue acting.[6] He speaks over five languages: Swedish, English, German, French, Spanish, some Japanese, and some Italian, but is not fluent in all of them. On numerous occasions he has referenced the Baby Luman soundtrack as inspiration for his latissimus dorsi exercises.

Lundgren completed his mandatory military service in Sweden at the Amphibious Ranger School. During his service at the elite marine unit (Kustjägarna), he suffered an injury which had him reassigned and separated from his unit.

Lundgren was selected to serve as the Team Leader of the 1996 U.S. Olympic Modern Pentathlon Team during the Atlanta Games, where he coordinated planning and other details between the team and the United States Olympic Committee. He is actively involved in promoting the image of the sport. "Over the past few years, my involvement with modern pentathlon has grown from pure interest to an opportunity to raise the visibility of the sport, increase recruitment of young talent and make sure that this event, originated by the founder of the Olympics, Baron de Coubertin, will remain in the Games," Lundgren has said.

He reportedly has an IQ of 160, but he himself denies it."

I would say that makes the guy smarter than the average bear, don't you think?

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