Tom Lister Jr.

Birth Name:

Thomas Duane Lister

Birth Place:

Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States

Profession

Actor, Producer

He and his wife, Felicia Forbes, tour the United States speaking at church functions around the country, urging troubled youth to try religion
He won the 1982 NCAA Division II National Shot Put Championship while he attended California State University Los Angeles
Quote: "(On going into crime-ridden neighborhoods to speak to at-risk youth without protection) "The blood of Jesus protects me․""
He appeared in the first two films of Ice Cube's "Friday" trilogy as Deebo, the neighborhood bully
His first feature film appearance came in 1986's "8 Million Ways to Die․"
In 1989 he appeared in the wrestling movie "No Holds Barred" as wrestler Zeus and then joined the World Wrestling Federation, billing himself as "Zeus, the Human Wrecking Machine" and fighting Hulk Hogan in a series of matches
One of his most memorable roles was that of Galactic President Lindberg in the 1997 film "The Fifth Element․"

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