This week on The Bruce Lee Podcast, Shannon welcomes actor, colleague and friend Rich Ting. You may know Rich from his work portraying Bolo on season 1 of Warrior but their connection goes back a lot further than that. Find out how Rich first met Shannon when he was just 13 years old and the journey he went on from athlete to earning two post graduate degrees to becoming an actor! Rich’s new show On Call for Amazon Prime debuted in January of this year, just as he wrapped an arc on Tulsa King Season 2 alongside Sylvester Stallone. Rich talks about the incredible work ethic he brings to everything he does, from his days playing football at Yale to his transition into acting.

A lifelong Bruce Lee fan, Rich also opens up about his journey—from almost quitting martial arts and how his mother’s tough love kept him on course to how that perseverance prepared him for the physically demanding and challenging life of an actor. Listen in as Shannon and Rich discuss resilience and how pushing through life’s challenges leads to growth and evolution in this inspiring, joyful and full-circle conversation between friends!

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Actor Rich Ting was born in Los Angeles, California and is a 4th generation Asian American. Growing up as an athlete, Ting played collegiate football at Yale University while earning a B.A, and then went on to achieve dual J.D./M.B.A. degrees. Soon after achieving his scholastic goals, he realized that he needed to switch careers and pursue his passion for the entertainment industry and, specifically, as an actor.

Ting has appeared on major hit shows: F.B.I., Magnum P.I., NCIS: Los Angeles, Supergirl, Waco, Rush Hour, and Chicago P.D. He split his time between the U.S. and South Korea for several years after being cast in lead roles on the Korean drama television series Iris as well as in the feature films, No Tears For the Dead alongside Jang Dong-gun and Real with Kim Soo-hyun. His determination and work ethic landed him roles in Hollywood blockbuster films, such as Lone Survivor opposite Mark Wahlberg and on Salt alongside Angelina Jolie as well as the spaghetti Western, No Name and Dynamite Davenport, where he plays the lead character of 'Dynamite Davenport'. Ting can also be seen performing stunts as a 1st degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do in G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, The Green Hornet, Gamer, and Crank 2: High Voltage.

Ting is most well-known for playing the iconic character 'Bolo' in the HBO Max drama series Warrior (2018), a television series inspired by the writings and work of Bruce Lee and is unforgettable on Amazon Prime’s Season 4 of the critically-acclaimed The Man in the High Castle (2019) as 'Captain Iijima', a driven, ambitious young detective in the Japanese Kempeitai.

In 2022, Ting has been seen on FX's The Old Man opposite Jeff Bridges on the streaming service Hulu as well as on NetIlix's Partner Track where he plays the character of 'Carter Min', the General Counsel of Min Enterprises. In 2023, Ting was seen on Apple's Hello Tomorrow as 'Hikaru Makoto', Disney Freeform's AZNBBGRL as 'Cody Lim', and also served as the Grand Marshal of the 2023 San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade and Festival.

In 2024, Ting starred on Paramount+’s Season 2 of Taylor Sheridan's hit crime drama series, Tulsa King, alongside Sylvester Stallone, where he plays the Chinese Triad druglord, 'Jackie Ming', a quiet but ruthless man with his own ambitions in the marijuana industry in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ting also starred in SEGA's Like a Dragon: InWinite Wealth, the ninth mainline entry of the Like a Dragon series, and a direct sequel to Yakuza: Like a Dragon and the spin-off title Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. He plays 'Wong Tou', the ruler of the Ganzhe syndicate, who is a powerful figure in Honolulu's underworld. Despite his gentlemanly exterior, Wong conceals the face of a ruthless gangster. An entrepreneur with immense wealth, he is a formidable rival to Dwight Mendez's Barracudas.

In 2025, Ting can be seen on Amazon Prime's new half-hour drama On Call, from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, which marks Wolf Entertainment's first streaming series and its 10th current scripted series overall. Ting plays 'Sgt. Tyson Koyama', the team leader of the Long Beach P.D.'s drug enforcement team (DET).

Additionally, Ting had his animation debut as the lead character of 'Habu Joji' in NetIlix's recently acquired Japanese animation feature, The Summit of the Gods. Some of his other voice over credits include other Netflix projects, such as Squid Games where he plays the lead character of the ‘Masked Officer’; Mr. Plankton as ‘Wang Chil-seong’; The 8 Show as

'Tae-seok 6F'; We Couldn't Become Adults as 'Kenta Sekiguchi'; The 8th Night as 'Detective Ho-tae Kim'; All of Us are Dead; the Chinese fantasy thriller, Dynasty Warriors as 'Liu Bei'; My Name, as 'Mu-Jin Choi'; Crazy Love as 'Dae-seok Lee'; All of Us Are Dead as 'Chief of Staff Seon-moo'; Kiss Sixth Sense as 'Cha Min-hoo'; 'Headmaster Brata' in the Thai drama series, Virgin; and Hulu’s Light Shop as ‘Kim Sang-hoon’.

Ting currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and two Malteses, Somi and Nori. In addition to working in film and television, he's still active in the martial arts world, loves to travel, and is a true foodie at heart.

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