Peter Weller

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1947-06-24

Place of Birth

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
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Peter Weller

Biography

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 acted. He also hosted the show Engineering an Empire on the History channel. He played Stan Liddy in the 5th Season of the Showtime original series, Dexter.

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Acting History

2025
Bang as Morgan Cutter
2023
RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop as Self
2023
Exterminate All Rational Thought as Self
2023
Rabbit Hole as Distinguished Man (voice)
2023
Rabbit Hole as Distinguished Man
2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as Dr. Stern (voice)
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities as Lionel Lassiter
2019
The Movies That Made Us as Self (archive footage)
2018
Forever as The Traveler
2017
Yamasong: March of the Hollows as Brujt (voice)
2017
Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2' as Self (archive footage)
2016
MacGyver as Elliot Mason
2015
The Tao of Buckaroo
2014
Skin Trade as Costello
2014
The Last Ship as Dr. Paul Vellek
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction as Himself
2014
Repentance as Meyer
2013
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns as Bruce Wayne / Batman (voice)
2013
Star Trek Into Darkness as Admiral Alexander Marcus
2013
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 as Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
2012
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 as Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
2012
Longmire
2012
Longmire as Lucian Connally
2012
Dragon Eyes as Mr. V
2011
Forced To Fight as Danny G.
2011
Franklin & Bash as Bert Mazzani
2010
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within as Self - Narrator
2010
Once Fallen as Eddie
2010
Hawaii Five-0 as Hookman, Curt Stoner
2010
God of War: Unearthing the Legend as Host
2008
Fringe as Alistair Peck
2008
Sons of Anarchy as Charles 'Charlie' Barosky
2007
Dating Vietnam as Jack Newton
2007
Prey as Tom Newman
2006
The Hard Easy as Ed Koster
2006
Dexter
2006
Psych as Yin / Karl Rotmensen
2006
Egypt: Engineering an Empire as Host
2005
The Poseidon Adventure as Captain Paul Gallico
2005
Rome: Engineering an Empire as Self
2005
Engineering an Empire as Himself / Host
2005
Undiscovered as Wick Treadway
2004
House as Dr. Penza
2003
The Handler
2003
The Order as Driscoll
2002
Monk as Actor Playing Stottlemeyer
2002
Odyssey 5 as Chuck Taggart
2002
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified as Self
2001
24 as Christopher Henderson
2001
Styx as Nelson
2001
Flesh + Steel: The Making of 'RoboCop' as Himself
2001
Star Trek: Enterprise as John Frederick Paxton
2000
Contaminated Man as Joseph Müller
2000
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula as Father Stefan
2000
Ivansxtc as Don West
2000
Shadow Hours as Stuart Chappell
2000
Falling Through as Lou
1999
Diplomatic Siege as Steve Parker
1998
Tower of the First Born as John Shannon
1997
End of Summer as Theo Remmington
1997
Top of the World as Ray Mercer
1995
Decoy as Baxter
1995
Beyond the Clouds as Husband
1995
Mighty Aphrodite as Jerry Bender
1995
Screamers as Colonel Hendricksson
1994
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee as Uncredited
1994
The New Age as Peter Witner
1994
The Substitute Wife as Martin Hightower
1993
Partners as Doctor
1993
Sunset Grill as Ryder Hart
1993
Fifty/Fifty as Jake Wyer
1992
Naked Making Lunch as Self
1991
Naked Lunch as Bill Lee
1991
Road to Ruin as Jack Sloan
1990
RoboCop 2 as RoboCop
1990
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction as Hobie
1990
Celebrity Guide to Wine as Self
1990
Rainbow Drive as Mike Gallagher
1989
Cat Chaser as George Moran
1989
Leviathan as Steven Beck
1988
Shakedown as Roland Dalton
1988
The Tunnel as Juan Pablo Castell
1987
The Dancing Princesses as The Soldier
1987
RoboCop as Officer Alex J. Murphy / RoboCop
1986
Apology as Rad Hungate
1985
A Killing Affair as Baston Morris
1984
Firstborn as Sam
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension as Buckaroo Banzai
1983
Of Unknown Origin as Bart Hughes
1983
Two Kinds of Love as Joe Farley
1983
Kentucky Woman as Deke
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre as The Soldier
1982
Shoot the Moon as Frank Henderson
1980
Just Tell Me What You Want as Steven Routledge
1979
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days as Joe Le Fors
1978
Mourning Becomes Electra as Peter
1977
Lou Grant
1975
The Silence as Red Sash
1973
The Man Without a Country as Lt. Fellows
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self