British actor Michael Enright puts Hollywood career on hold to fight Isis in Syria

Michael Enright, a British actor who has had bit-parts in major Hollywood movies including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Knight and Day, and Old Dogs, has joined Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State in Syria.

In a video released by the Kurdish People's Protection Units, Enright is seen training with Kurdish fighters - whom he calls his "havals", meaning comrades and asking for much-needed weaponry and medical supplies.

The YPG is known as a major force for resisting the Isis assault on Syria. Backed by coalition airstrikes, they have liberated many towns and villages in the north-east of the country.

In another video, an interview with Dubai-based Al-Aan TV, Enright, who has also appeared in TV shows including Law and Order, Agents of SHIELD and CSI, said he first became concerned at the rise of Isis when they "cut off an American journalist's head - an innocent man with his hands tied behind his back".

The "straw that broke the camel's back" was in February, when the group released a video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive.

Manchester-born Enright has changed his name to Mustafa Michael Ali, and says he is willing to die for the cause.

"I didn't come here to play games, I wrote to all my friends and family because I might not see them again," he told Al-Aan.

He added: “I didn’t come here to run, I came here to fight, and if I have to die, then I die.

“ISIS, they need to be wiped off completely the face of this earth,” Enright said. “They are a stain on humanity. This is a call to humanity to obliterate them.”

According to his imdb acting profile, Enright has no military background and little experience with firearms.