Then came another role that would cement his cult status: Ray Jackson in *Bloodsport*. Opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme, Gibb brought his familiar mixture of size, humor, toughness, and swagger into the world of martial-arts cinema. Ray Jackson became exactly the kind of character Gibb played so effectively—a bruising physical force who still managed to be charismatic enough for audiences to root for him.
Those performances created an image that followed him for decades. To millions of viewers, Donald Gibb would always be Ogre or Ray Jackson, the enormous man who seemed capable of shaking a room with his voice. But the people who knew him beyond the screen often remembered something far removed from the aggressive personalities audiences associated with him.
