Dean Harrington has been professionally involved in film and video production for over 25 years. Originally trained at the Julian theatre company in San Francisco in the early 1970s, he got his start in film as a stuntman and actor in the Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s and worked with John Woo and Ringo Lam along with other notable directors and actors in the Hong Kong film scene of that era. He has also worked in US, European and Japanese films, most notably "Returner" directed by Takashi Yamazaki.