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  2. In 1979, Hill portrayed the role of Cyrus in the 1979 film The Warriors. Hill was chosen to portray the doomed gang lord Cyrus after the original actor chosen for the part, a real life gang leader, mysteriously disappeared just before filming started. [5]

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    Cyrus is the president of the Gramercy Riffs, and the man responsible for calling the meeting in Van Cortlandt Park. However, this vision was shattered when he was shot and killed by Lutherwhile giving his speech at the summit.

    Cyrus is seen several times explaining his plan to Masai. He is talked about often by the radio DJ, who sometimes refers to him as "Magic Man".

    After the prison break, Swantalks to Masai about continuing the plan of a unified gang, but Masai said Cyrus' dreams died with Cyrus.

    Cyrus, like most characters, shares the 2-hit combos as standard grapple moves, with Ajax's rage grapple moves. Like most characters, he uses the roundhouse and tornado kicks as power moves. Unlike most Riffs, he uses the fighting style of Ajax and Snow, as well as the standard cross-dive, not the flying kick.

    "We need to spread the word. We must reach out into every corner, cross every border, and convince. Convey our message, our motive; and it must be with respect, not force, that they accept our invi...
    "Can you count, SUCKAS?! I say the future is ours! If you can count... Now LOOK, what we have here before us; we've got The Saracens sitting next to The Jones Street Boys... We've got The Moonrunne...
    The name 'Cyrus' is an allusion to Cyrus the Younger, from Anabasis.
    According to executive producer Frank Marshall, they originally hired a real gang member for the role of Cyrus, but could not find him on the day of filming, and never heard from him again. However...
    Roger Hill sued Take-Twofor using his likeness in the game. He won the suit for $250,000.
    At the 2005 Spike TV Video Game Awards, The Gang meeting scene was parodied with video game characters and Cyrus himself was parodied by Samuel L. Jackson, who was hosting that year. Instead of get...
  3. Feb 25, 2014 · Roger Hill, who played gang leader Cyrus in Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic “The Warriors,” died Thursday in New York. He was 65.

  4. The Warriors (1979) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  5. www.imdb.com › name › nm0384631Roger Hill - IMDb

    Chosen to portray the charismatic but doomed gang lord Cyrus in The Warriors (1979) after the original actor chosen for the part, a real life gang leader, mysteriously disappeared just before filming started.

    • January 1, 1
    • The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
    • January 1, 1
    • Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
  6. Feb 7, 2015 · Roger only appeared in TV shows after The Warriors including One Life To Live (1983/4) and The Leatherstocking Tales (1984). Roger was not initially cast to play Cyrus, but filled in the role after the original actor failed to turn up on the night of the shoot.

  7. Cyrus : You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town.

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