Robert Mark Kamen
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Raised in the Bronx, Kamen earned a degree from New York University before completing a Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and later honed his martial-arts skills in Okinawan Gōjū-ryū karate after a teenage assault. Mentored by industry veteran Frank Price, he turned personal experience and a news story into the screenplay that launched The Karate Kid franchise, a series…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources