Name: Tommy 'Tiny' Lister
Date of Birth: 24 June 1958 Career got started by actor/ director Jimmy Bridges (older brother of actor Todd Bridges) when Jimmy introduced Tiny to his father, Jim Bridges, who was a talent agent in Hollywood after which Tiny worked in 3 movies his first year in the business. He also had a brief stint in WCW World Championship Wrestling. He was known as Z-Gangsta. Weighed 300 lbs at the time of Universal Soldier (1992). During his brief stint in the World Wrestling Federation in 1989, Lister was promoted as fru... strated with being billed below Hulk Hogan in that year's No Holds Barred (1989), and thus wanting to get his revenge in a real-life wrestling confrontation (in the movie, Hogan's character defeats Zeus at the end). The "feud" parlayed into a series of tag-team matches, pitting Lister -- who wrestled as his movie character Zeus -- and his partners (usually Randy Savage [aka "Macho Man"] and Ted DiBiase [aka "Million Dollar Man"]) vs. Hogan and Ed Leslie (aka "Brutus Beefcake"); when not wrestling, he sometimes came down as a menacing second for either DiBiase or Savage in their matches against Hogan or Beefcake, interfering at every opportunity. During his WWF matches, Zeus "no sold" his opponents' wrestling moves (that is, pretended like an opponent's moves didn't hurt the wrestler in the least) to generate fan heat and create the impression Zeus was invincible. His in-ring finisher was the neck-wrencher, which he ostensibly used to "break" opponents' necks and set them up for an easy pin fall loss. Lister's wrestling career only lasted for about six months. Played Klaang in the first episode of "Enterprise" (2001). Klang was the first Klingon (even though it was in a prequel) that Starfleet ever encountered. Is blind in his right eye. He has commonly been listed as 6' 7", especially back in his wrestling days, but is actually about 6' 6". Was the 1982 Division II Shot Put Champion while attending Cal State University Los Angeles. A movie buff, he enjoys the films of Frank Capra and Burt Lancaster, and has even been a guest host on TCM's The Essentials. Read more Tommy 'Tiny' Lister movies (actor)User Comments |
