Robert Kerver
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Biography
Just as Roy Horan usually appears with WangJang-Li onscreen, he usually appears with both of them. Had he stuck around he would have been the third white man to continually appear in kung-fu films, with number one being Jim James. He, like most Americans in kung-fu films, could only be used according to the skills that they possessed and those with mediocre talents would have to take parts that couldn't possibly show their true attributes. As with any actor playing a foreigner in these films, his enemy would always be, the (Chinese) star of the film.
He was used more as fighter is was normally out-classed by his superior Chinese opponents, making his roles in the few films he's played in all the more meaningless. And it seemed that no matter whom he was fighting, he would never see the end of the film (usually being dispatched of in the first half). In Snuff-Bottle Connection, starring John Liu, he played a Russian soldier who possessed a temper and not much else. The Karate skills that he displayed onscreen, though they didn't land him any major film roles, they did help him to meet and match blows with some of the genre's best.