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Also known as Matthew George Frewer, Matthew George "Matt" Frewer, Matthew Frewer

American actor

OverviewAI-generated

Matt Frewer is a male person from the United States. He was born on January 4, 1958, and has one child. His professional work period began in 1983.

According to available records, Frewer is associated with five works. He has also been referenced by 261 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1958
Works
1

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1958-01-04

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,880
Total plays
23,034

Tags

neatcool

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Frewer">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Matt Frewer

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,548x

  2. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,794x

  3. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

    · 2013 · cited 13,572x

  4. Molecular portraits of human breast tumours

    · 2000 · cited 12,731x

  5. Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

    · 2017 · cited 12,480x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Born
Matthew George Frewer , ( 1958-01-04 ) January 4, 1958 (age 68) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.
Citizenship
Canada United States
Alma mater
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (1980)
Occupations
Actor comedian
Years active
1983–present
Spouse
Amanda Hillwood ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 ) ​

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Matthew George Frewer (born January 4, 1958) is an American-Canadian actor and comedian. He portrayed the 1980s icon Max Headroom in the 1985 TV film and 1987 television series of the same name.

He became prominent when playing roles in films, like Russell Thompson Sr. in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Jobe Smith in Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996), Sherlock Holmes in a 2001 film adaptation of The Sign of Four, Frank in Dawn of the Dead (2004), Moloch in Watchmen (2009), Mitch in 50/50 (2011), and Archibald Stanley in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matt Frewer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.