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Grand Lee Bush (born December 24, 1955) is an American retired actor of stage, television and film. Bush was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor Robert Bush and his wife Essie Bush. Shakespearean-trained, Bush studied film and theatre at the Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, University of Southern California and the Strasberg Academy in Hollywood. He continued his education by performing at the historic Globe Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the annual Shakespeare Festival in Garden Grove, California. In 1977, he landed a recurring role on the CBS sitcom Good Times. Bush later acted in other television episodics and miniseries, including Roots, before joining the cast of the rock musical Hair in 1979, in which he performed a solo. Bush also performed in other musical dramas, including the TV series Fame and the feature film Streets of Fire. In 1983, Bush won a nomination for a Canadian Genie Award in the category of "Best Performance by a Foreign Actor" for his role in the feature film Hard Feelings. Bush appeared in such blockbusters as Lethal Weapon, Hollywood Shuffle, Die Hard, and Colors, the latter of which sparked a friendship between Bush and director Dennis Hopper and Hopper directed Bush in a total of three feature films: Colors, Chasers, and Catchfire. Bush was cast in the 1989 James Bond feature film Licence to Kill. He portrayed a lieutenant in the horror film The Exorcist III and had a small role in Demolition Man. Bush also played actor Todd Bridges' father in Building Bridges, an autobiographical short film about the rise and fall of the child star of Diff'rent Strokes. In 1994, Bush was cast in the role of Balrog in the action/comedy Street Fighter, directed by Steven E. de Souza. The ensemble cast also included Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kylie Minogue, Ming-Na and Raúl Juliá. To prepare for his role, Bush trained with kickboxing champion Benny Urquidez in Bangkok, Thailand, and Brisbane, Australia. More than 35 feature films in which Bush has appeared have been archived as Turner Classic Movies.
A year after losing their daughter, The Reynolds, a well to do publisher and his wife lose their black poodle while out on an evening stroll. They receive an anonymous ransom note demanding $1000 dollars in cash in exchange for their poodle. The Reynolds immediately and discreetly contact law enforcement, but few, if any officers seem to care about their case. The kidnapping catches the eye of a young and Idealistic Police patrolman (Clarence), who decides to investigate this crime without the explicit permission of his department. Clarence is able to trace the letter to a disagreeable disabled man (Kenneth), living in a hovel but he is not able to find the poodle. The department is not able to pin the crime on Kenneth, but Clarence is determined to bring him to justice. Despite his limitations, Kenneth is always one step ahead of Clarence and the NYPD, who treats Clarence's intrest in the case with contempt and suspicion.
