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Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
Peter Frederick Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor, director and lecturer. He is best known for his roles as the title character in the first two RoboCop films and Buckaroo Banzai in the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. He received an Academy Award nomination for his direction for the 1993 short Partners, in which he also…
Known for
- THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH2026
- Bang — Morgan Cutter2025
- Exterminate All Rational Thought — Self2023
- Rabbit Hole — Distinguished Man (voice)2023
- Rabbit Hole — Distinguished Man2023
- RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop — Self2023
- Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur — Dr. Stern (voice)2023
- In Search of Tomorrow — Self2022
- Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities — Lionel Lassiter2022
- The Movies That Made Us — Self (archive footage)2019
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Key facts
- Born
- Peter Francis Weller , ( 1947-06-24 ) June 24, 1947 (age 78) , Stevens Point, Wisconsin , U.S.
- Education
- University of North Texas ( BA ) Syracuse University ( MA ) University of California, Los Angeles ( PhD )
- Occupations
- Actor television director
- Years active
- 1973–present
- Spouse
- Shari Stowe ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 )
- Thesis
- Alberti Before Florence: Early Sources Informing Leon Battista Alberti's De Pictura (2014)
- Doctoral advisor
- Charlene Villaseñor Black
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Family name
- Weller
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Stevens Point
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- HB Studio
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Notable work
- RoboCop
- Instrument
- trumpet
- Image
- Peter Weller 2014.jpg
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- Commons category
- Peter Weller (actor)
- date of birth
- 1947-06-24
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
- start of work period
- 1973-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter Francis Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American actor and television director. He has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including RoboCop (1987) and its sequel RoboCop 2 (1990), in which he played the titular character, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). He appeared in such films as Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995), the Oliver Stone-produced The New Age (1994), and David Cronenberg's adaptation of William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch (1991).
In addition to a Saturn Award nomination for his RoboCop role, he received an Academy Award nomination for his 1993 short Partners, in which he also acted. In television, he hosted the program Engineering an Empire on the History Channel from 2005 to 2007. He played Christopher Henderson in the fifth season of 24, Stan Liddy in the fifth season of the Showtime original series Dexter, and Charles "Charlie" Barosky in 11 episodes in the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy. From 2012 to 2017, he was involved in the A&E (now Netflix) series Longmire as a director and actor. In 2017, he appeared on The Last Ship as Dr. Paul Vellek. He reprised his role as RoboCop by providing his voice for Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019 and RoboCop: Rogue City in 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peter Weller” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.