A hard-working director throughout his long and varied career, Robert Clouse was best-known for his two most successful films:Moeyo doragon (1973) andGame of Death (1978). Born in 1928, he was a director. After being hired by Warner Bros. and Golden Harvest to directMoeyo doragon (1973), Clouse was escalated into the realm of profitable directors. But, unlike others in this category, doors in Hollywood were not entirely open to him. In 1974, he was hired to directBlack Belt Jones (1974) for Warner Brothers Pictures. The film proved to be a moderate success.

In 1978, Clouse returned to Hong Kong where he was hired by Golden Harvest'sRaymond Man-Wai Chow to direct a comeback movie for Martial ArtistBruce Lee, despite the fact that Lee had died five years earlier. Clouse was given the incomplete footage from Lee's original version of Game of Death, but decided that only a small amount of this footage should be used (mainly because the original film's plot had been re-created countless times in Hong Kong cinema since Lee's death). With the help ofSammo Kam-Bo Hung andRobert Wall, among others, Clouse shot severalBruce Lee lookalikes and stand-ins as well as cutting back to footage from other Lee movies and, of course, the original Game of Death takes. Clouse was never able to match the success of his two Lee films later in his career. He died in 1997, aged 68.