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Bush, Balrog in Street Fighter and an actor in Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, quit acting in 2003 and finished medical school in 2010.", "datePublished": "2026-11-11T07:15:00+00:00", "dateModified": "2026-11-11T07:15:00+00:00", "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Badiyaa Editorial Desk", "url": "https://badiyaa.com/author/editorial-desk/" }, "publisher": { "@type": "NewsMediaOrganization", "@id": "https://badiyaa.com/#organization", "name": "Badiyaa", "url": "https://badiyaa.com/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://badiyaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/badiyaa-logo-color-600x60-1.png", "width": 600, "height": 60 }, "email": "badiyaavideo@gmail.com", "publishingPrinciples": "https://badiyaa.com/editorial-policy/", "correctionsPolicy": "https://badiyaa.com/corrections/", "actionableFeedbackPolicy": "https://badiyaa.com/contact/", "ownershipFundingInfo": "https://badiyaa.com/about/#ownership", "sameAs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61595518283625", "https://www.instagram.com/badiyaa.com.ai/", "https://www.threads.net/@badiyaa.com.ai" ], "parentOrganization": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Rezilient Digital", "url": "https://www.rezilientdigital.com/", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Fl No 3, Nav Shyam Sadan, Plot No 38, Pestom Sagar, Chembur", "addressLocality": "Mumbai", "addressRegion": "Maharashtra", "postalCode": "400089", "addressCountry": "IN" }, "sameAs": [ "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rezilientdigital" ] } }, "isAccessibleForFree": true, "inLanguage": "en-US", "wordCount": 560, "image": [ "https://badiyaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/griffith-observatory-views-mount-lee-with-hollywood-sign-54084104033.webp", "https://badiyaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/griffith-observatory-views-mount-lee-with-hollywood-sign-54084104033-1024x680.webp" ], "articleSection": "Entertainment", "keywords": "Die Hard, Grand L. Bush, Lethal Weapon, Street Fighter", "articleBody": "Grand L. Bush spent 26 years playing cops, crooks and a boxer named Balrog. Then he walked away from Hollywood in 2003 and, by 2010, had graduated from medical school. The Los Angeles-born actor, now 70, is best known for a run of late-1980s and 1990s action hits: Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon 2, the James Bond film Licence to Kill, Demolition Man and the 1994 video game adaptation Street Fighter. His biography sums up the switch in two short facts: the acting stopped in 2003, and a medical school diploma followed in 2010. A Shakespeare-trained actor in action films Bush was born in Los Angeles on December 24, 1955, the son of actor Robert Bush and Essie Bush. He trained in Shakespeare, studied film and theater at the Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, the University of Southern California and the Strasberg Academy in Hollywood, and performed at the historic Globe Theatre. His screen work began on television in 1976 with two episodes of the sitcom Good Times. Films followed quickly, from Stir Crazy in 1980 to Brewster’s Millions in 1985. Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and Balrog The late 1980s gave him his most recognizable faces. He played Detective Dan Boyette in Lethal Weapon (1987), Little Johnson in Die Hard (1988), Hawkins in Licence to Kill (1989) and Jerry Collins in Lethal Weapon 2 the same year. In Street Fighter, released in the United States on December 23, 1994, he played Balrog, a boxer who joins reporter Chun-Li in a revenge plot against the arms dealer Sagat. Jean-Claude Van Damme headlined as Guile, and paying him used up close to $8 million of a $35 million production budget. That left most other parts to lesser-known actors, Bush among them. The film still grossed $99.4 million worldwide, about 2.8 times its budget. Fans of the game have something new to compare it with this year: the latest live-action film reboot was dated for October 16, 2026, and Badiyaa has looked at how the new Street Fighter movie hides hand-drawn anime flashbacks. The last roles, then a new path Through the 1990s Bush kept busy in television, with parts in Renegade, Nash Bridges, The Visitor, Walker, Texas Ranger, The Pretender and Chicago Hope. His final listed credits came in 2002: the film New Alcatraz and an episode of JAG called “Enemy Below,” in which he played the executive officer of a submarine. Count the dates and the switch looks deliberate rather than sudden. His acting career ran from 1976 to 2002, roughly 26 years and about three dozen films. Seven years separate his retirement in 2003 from his medical school graduation in 2010, which he completed at 54. He has kept a low profile since; his biography does not say where or in what field he went on to work, and Badiyaa could not confirm those details. He has been married to Sharon Dahlonega Bush since 1994. Bush is not the only performer whose second act surprised fans. Bruce Springsteen’s son chose a firehouse over a stage, as our story on Sam Springsteen becoming a Jersey City firefighter explains, and the Die Hard formula itself is still being recycled, as in Keanu Reeves taking over a Netflix thriller pitched as Die Hard in a hurricane. Bush turns 71 on December 24, nearly 24 years after his last credited role. Further reading Wikipedia: Grand L. Bush Wikipedia: Street Fighter (1994 film) Illustrative image. Image: The Fun Chronicles, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.", "markdown": "https://badiyaa.com/grand-l-bush-balrog-medical-school.md" }