This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.
- Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.
This is a list of action heroes who appear in a number of genres including action films, adventure films, swashbuckler films, television Westerns, old-time radio, adventure novels, dime novels, pulp magazines, and folklore. These heroes often display exaggerated physical characteristics such as extreme physical stature and/or fitness.
Action heroes
Actors
Errol Flynn
Humphrey Bogart
Clint Eastwood
Bruce Lee
Sylvester Stallone
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Will Smith
Jackie Chan
Denzel Washington
Cinema
Literature and pulp fiction
Radio
Television
Games
Female action heroes
Michelle Yeoh
Sigourney Weaver
Linda Hamilton
Lucy Lawless
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Uma Thurman
Lucy Liu
Halle Berry
Angelina Jolie
Main article: List of women warriors in folklore, literature, and popular culture
Actresses
Cinema
Literature, comic books, and pulp fiction
- Further information: List of superheroines
Television
Vi,Kendra,Darla,Drusilla.
Games
Further reading
- Ho, Sam. "Licensed to Kick Men: The Jane Bond Films." The Restless Breed: Cantonese Stars of the Sixties. Hong Kong: Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1996. ISBN 962-7040-50-9
- Inness, Sherrie A. (ed.) Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Kim, L. S. "Making women warriors: a transnational reading of Asian female action heroes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. No. 48, Winter, 2006.
- Magoulick, Mary. "Frustrating Female Heroism: Mixed Messages in Xena, Nikita, and Buffy." The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 39 Issue 5 (October 2006).
- Osgerby, Bill, Anna Gough-Yates, and Marianne Wells. Action TV : Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks. London: Routledge, 2001.
- Tasker, Yvonne. Action and Adventure Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2004.
- ———.Spectacular Bodies : Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
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