Earl Boen, a veteran character and voice actor finest recognized for his function because the hapless Dr. Peter Silberman in “The Terminator” motion pictures, died Thursday in Hawaii, Selection reported. He was 81.
Boen had been identified with lung most cancers final 12 months, his household advised Selection.
Boen performed a legal psychologist who was introduced in to query Michael Biehn’s character, Kyle Reese, within the first “Terminator” movie. Reese had traveled again from the long run in a bid to kill the terminator, a cyborg performed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a determined transfer to save lots of the human race from machines in James Cameron’s widespread 1984 sci-fi movie.
Boen additionally appeared within the sequels “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” — when he reductions hero Sarah Connor’s (Linda Hamilton) cyborg warning — and “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.” He was additionally in archival footage in 2019’s “Terminator: Darkish Destiny.”
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Actor Robert Patrick, who performed the evil cyborg in “Terminator 2” (Schwarzenegger was the great man), hailed Boen on Twitter as a “splendidly gifted actor, and a very good man.”
Boen labored on a number of different movies, TV sequence and video video games in his profession.
His movie credit embrace “9 to five,” “Dwelling in Peril,” “The Prince,” “Sioux Metropolis,” “Marked for Loss of life,” “Alien Nation,” “The Primary Occasion,” “Bare Gun 33⅓: The Ultimate Insult” and “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.”
His voluminous TV work included roles on “The Streets of San Francisco,” “Hawaii 5-O,” “Surprise Lady,” “Police Lady,” “Barnaby Jones” and “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
He was additionally the voice of Mr. Bleakman in “Clifford the Huge Purple Canine,” of Ghost Pirate LeChuck within the Monkey Island video video games and of Charles “Rhino” Daly within the animated “Batman” sequence, amongst quite a few different voice roles.
However his iconic function will at all times be Dr. Silberman, a barely nerdy, well-intentioned doc who doesn’t fairly get what’s actually happening.
He’s survived by his spouse, Cathy, daughter Ruby and two grandchildren.