Earl Boen

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Earl Boen (born August 8, 1941 in Pueblo , Colorado ) is an American actor and voice actor . His best-known role is that of the criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in Terminator , Terminator 2 - Judgment Day and Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines . Besides Arnold Schwarzenegger, Boen is the only actor to appear in each of the first three Terminator films.

Life

Earl Boen began his acting career in local theaters in the mid-1950s before receiving his first roles in television series in 1965. In the following years Boen was mainly seen as a guest actor in numerous television series.

In 1984 Boen first played his best-known role as Dr. Peter Silberman in Terminator . He also embodied this character in the second and third parts of the series. He also appeared together with the other actors of the second Terminator part in 1996 in the short film T2 3-D: Battle Across Time .

Boen also had supporting roles in films such as Mister Billion , What, you don't want to? , Sador - ruler in space , the man with two brains , to be or not to be and the naked cannon 33⅓ . In 1988 he played the alien Nagilum in an episode of Starship Enterprise: The Next Century . In the 1980s and 90s he continued to appear in series such as Golden Girls (in two episodes as the Reverend), The Prince of Bel-Air (as the director of Princeton University) and Who's the Boss? to see. In the TV series Alf , he played in the episode Der Ausreißer, Willi Tanner's boss.

After appearing on Terminator 3 , Boen retired from acting in 2003, but continues to work as a voice actor in television cartoons, series, and video games. From 1997 to 1998 he played the role of the otherworldly in the animated series New Spider-Man . He was also heard in a total of four episodes of Kim Possible from 2002 to 2006 as Señor Senior Senior , who was normally spoken by Ricardo Montalbán . His speaking roles in video games include LeChuck in The Secret of Monkey Island and The Curse of Monkey Island , Montaron in Baldur's Gate, and narrator in several games in the World of Warcraft franchise.

Boen does not have a fixed standard voice actor in German-speaking countries. In his most famous role as Dr. Peter Silberman he was spoken to by Friedrich W. Bauschulte (first terminator part) and Jürgen Thormann (second and third part).

Earl Boen was married to actress Carole Kean from 1970 until her death from cancer in April 2001.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

TV Shows

Unless otherwise stated, one sequence each.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Earl Boen. In: German synchronous card index . Retrieved October 20, 2019 .