From the Streets of Brooklyn to the Halls of Hollywood

The name Steven Lambert is one I became familiar with thanks to my love of Cannon Films and more specifically the healthy amount of special edition Cannon releases, like Revenge of the Ninja, that have been put out over the past few years that have included commentary tracks.

Later after posting one of our popular 10 Things You Didn’t Know features on American Ninja, I had some direct interaction with Mr. Lambert and from that interaction I gathered a few things… one, that Steven Lambert is extremely proud of the work he had done in the golden age of action movies and two, that he was not content with being the “Unknown Stuntman” that Lee Majors once crooned about.

That is why I was not surprised to learn that Lambert wrote his own book entitled Steven Lambert: From the Streets of Brooklyn to the Halls of Hollywood. The book chronicles Lambert’s time in Hollywood in Lambert’s own words. From working on Cannon projects like Ninja III: The Domination to big budget blockbusters like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Lambert shares his recollections, both good and bad, of the movies he worked on and stars he had the opportunity to work with.

Clocking in at over 750 pages, the book is filled with stories, behind the scenes photos and more culled from Steven Lambert’s personal collection. You can check out the official press release below and copies are currently available on Amazon.

Buckle up for what has to be the wildest tell-all behind the scenes peek into action movie history: Prolific stuntman and stunt coordinator Steven Lambert’s brand new thrill-a-second book has just been published and is bursting at the seams with incredible, can-hardly-believe it stories never before told until now!

FROM THE STREETS OF BROOKLYN TO THE HALLS OF HOLLYWOOD chronicles the nearly impossible to fathom origin and rise of self-proclaimed “punk kid from Brooklyn” Lambert, who trained in the martial arts before becoming an in-demand stuntman in the final golden age of Hollywood, as he went from glory to glory, working with and beside screen legends such as Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sho Kosugi, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Ford, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, and James Woods, and filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, and Roland Emmerich, and the infamous producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus of the infamous Cannon Group.

Lambert relates his unfathomable adventures of putting his life on the line for death-defying stunts in films such as Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) where he literally hung from the Statue of Liberty without a harness, doubling Sho Kosugi, the original screen ninja, in films such as Revenge of the Ninja (1983) and Ninja III: The Domination (1984), witnessing the meltdowns and bad behavior from Nicolas Cage and Sean Penn on Racing With the Moon (1984) while doubling Penn, being present during the now-mythic behind-the-scenes fight between “Judo” Gene LeBell and Steven Seagal on the set of Out for Justice, working and boarding the immense production of Titanic (1997) and being a part of the mayhem, Lambert’s tales are as tall as they come … except they’re all true!

At a break-neck pace you can’t imagine, Lambert’s chapter-esque book tells it all, with a uniquely authentic style all his own, and with the inside look you’ve always wished you could see and read, FROM THE STREETS OF BROOKLYN TO THE HALLS OF HOLLYWOOD is truly a one-in-a-lifetime reading experience, the kind of story Hollywood can only dream of adapting into a movie someday because it’s just that incredible.

FROM THE STREETS OF BROOKLYN TO THE HALLS OF HOLLYWOOD is now available to purchase directly from Amazon.