Brian Thompson (actor)
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Brian Thompson is an American actor. His distinctive square-jaw profile, powerful voice, and imposing stature (193 cm, six-foot-four) has led him to be typecast as a villain in many action films and TV series, and a some comedies: Joe Dirt
, The Three Amigos
, Weird Science
, Key West
, and Life Stinks
.
and Three Amigos, mostly in the 1980s.
Thompson has also appeared in a wide variety of television shows, usually as a villain, including seven seasons on the The X-Files
(as an alien bounty hunter); the pilot episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Kindred: The Embraced
(as Eddie Fiori, the leader of the Brujah clan); and Charmed
(as both War from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Titan
Cronos
). Thompson has also appeared in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
(as the warlord Goth) as well as Hercules himself in Jason and the Argonauts
. He played the role of Tenctonese
Trent Porter in the film Alien Nation
. Thompson also appeared in the video game inspired movie Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
as the Emperor Shao Kahn. He also appeared in Birds of Prey
as the Crawler in Episode 7 "Split".
Cast as a more fatherly figure, Thompson starred in the family film, Tillamook Treasure
as Uncle Jimmy, a rough Oregon
logger
. Thompson lives in Los Angeles
and has recently produced a feature comedy, Action Hero.
Joe Dirt
Joe Dirt is a 2001 American comedy film starring David Spade, Dennis Miller, Christopher Walken, Brian Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Jaime Pressly, Erik Per Sullivan, Adam Beach and Kid Rock. The film was written by Spade and Fred Wolf.-Plot:...
, The Three Amigos
The Three Amigos
The Three Amigos may refer to*Three Amigos an American comedy film starring Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short*The Three Amigos a UK band...
, Weird Science
Weird Science (TV series)
Weird Science is a mid-1990s American comedy series made for television, based on the 1985 film of the same name.-Plot:The series follows the adventures of Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly , two socially inept high school students in an unspecified town in California...
, Key West
Key West (TV series)
Key West was a short-lived 1993 hour long comedy-drama television series set in Key West, Florida. Thirteen episodes aired on Fox between January and June 1993. It was created by David Beaird and Allan Marcil...
, and Life Stinks
Life Stinks
Life Stinks is a 1991 comedy-drama directed by and starring Mel Brooks. It is known as one of the few Mel Brooks comedies that is not a parody, nor at any time does the film break the fourth wall. It co-stars Lesley Ann Warren, Howard Morris and Jeffrey Tambor...
.
Career
Thompson has played support roles, almost always villains, in a number of movies, including The TerminatorThe Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr., and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. The film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures, and filmed in Los...
and Three Amigos, mostly in the 1980s.
Thompson has also appeared in a wide variety of television shows, usually as a villain, including seven seasons on the The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
(as an alien bounty hunter); the pilot episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Kindred: The Embraced
Kindred: The Embraced
Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes before it was canceled on May 9, 1996. The...
(as Eddie Fiori, the leader of the Brujah clan); and Charmed
Charmed
Charmed is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, on the now defunct The WB Television Network. The series was created in 1998 by writer Constance M...
(as both War from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Titan
Titan (mythology)
In Greek mythology, the Titans were a race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia and Uranus, that ruled during the legendary Golden Age....
Cronos
Cronus
In Greek mythology, Cronus or Kronos was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Uranus, the sky...
). Thompson has also appeared in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States. It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles...
(as the warlord Goth) as well as Hercules himself in Jason and the Argonauts
Jason and the Argonauts (2000 film)
Jason and the Argonauts, aka Jason and the Golden Fleece is a 2000 TV movie, directed by Nick Willing and produced by Hallmark Entertainment. It is very loosely based on the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts.-Plot:...
. He played the role of Tenctonese
Tenctonese
The Tenctonese, also known as Newcomers, are a humanoid species in the Alien Nation, television series and earlier film, as well as the later Alien Nation telefilm series. They are from the planet Tencton, though references to numerous slave colonies throughout the series and telemovies indicate...
Trent Porter in the film Alien Nation
Alien Nation (film)
Alien Nation is a 1988 American science fiction film directed by Graham Baker and produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Richard Kobritz and Bill Borden. The storyline was based on a screenplay written by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It stars James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, and Kevyn Major Howard...
. Thompson also appeared in the video game inspired movie Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is a 1997 American martial arts action film that was the sequel to 1995's Mortal Kombat, and was directed by John R. Leonetti, who had served as the cinematographer for the previous film...
as the Emperor Shao Kahn. He also appeared in Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey (TV series)
Birds of Prey is a television drama series produced in 2002. The series was developed by Laeta Kalogridis for The WB and is loosely based on the Birds of Prey DC Comics series...
as the Crawler in Episode 7 "Split".
Cast as a more fatherly figure, Thompson starred in the family film, Tillamook Treasure
Tillamook Treasure
Tillamook Treasure, also known as The Legend of Tillamook's Gold, is a 2006 U.S. independent family film set in the city of Manzanita, Oregon...
as Uncle Jimmy, a rough Oregon
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
logger
Lumberjack
A lumberjack is a worker in the logging industry who performs the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. The term usually refers to a bygone era when hand tools were used in harvesting trees principally from virgin forest...
. Thompson lives in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
and has recently produced a feature comedy, Action Hero.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | The Terminator The Terminator The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr., and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. The film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures, and filmed in Los... |
street punk | Bit character killed by Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger is a German surname that means person from Schwarzenegg, which is both a town in Switzerland and a place in Land Salzburg in Austria... |
| 1986 | Cobra | Night Slasher | Key villain |
| 1986 | Three Amigos | Thug | A lackey of The German |
| 1986 | Doctor Mordrid Doctor Mordrid Doctor Mordrid is a 1992 American film starring Jeffrey Combs. It was produced by Charles Band and co-directed by Band and his father, Albert Band. It was written by C. Courtney Joyner and released by Full Moon Features.... |
Kabal | Key villain, an evil wizard |
| 1988 | Fright Night II Fright Night II Fright Night Part II is the 1988 sequel to Fright Night. William Ragsdale and Roddy McDowall both reprised their roles from the first movie. The sequel was directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. Composer Brad Fiedel also returned with another distinct synthesizer score... |
Bozworth | Bug-eating lackey |
| 1990 | Lionheart Lionheart Lionheart may refer to:People*"Richard the Lionheart", a name for Richard I of England*" Brendon 'Lionheart' Hartley" is a nickname given to motor racing driver Brendon Hartley*"Corazon de Leon", former ringname of professional wrestler Chris Jericho... |
Russel | Billed 5th |
| 2001 | Joe Dirt Joe Dirt Joe Dirt is a 2001 American comedy film starring David Spade, Dennis Miller, Christopher Walken, Brian Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Jaime Pressly, Erik Per Sullivan, Adam Beach and Kid Rock. The film was written by Spade and Fred Wolf.-Plot:... |
Buffalo Bob | Parodies the Buffalo Bill role from Silence of the Lambs |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Werewolf Werewolf (TV series) Werewolf is an American horror series, and one of the original shows in the Fox network's broadcast line-up during its inaugural season of 1987–1988.The show follows the adventures of Eric Cord Werewolf is an American horror series, and one of the original shows in the Fox network's broadcast... |
Nicholas Remy Nicholas Remy Nicholas Remy was a French magistrate who became famous as a hunter of witches comparable to Jean Bodin and De Lancre. After studying law at the University of Toulouse, Remy practiced in Paris from 1563 to 1570... |
6 Episodes |
| 1989 | Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise... |
Various Klingons | Appeared as different named or unnamed Klingons in four Star Trek series |
| 1993 | Key West Key West (TV series) Key West was a short-lived 1993 hour long comedy-drama television series set in Key West, Florida. Thirteen episodes aired on Fox between January and June 1993. It was created by David Beaird and Allan Marcil... |
Sheriff Cody Jeremiah Johnson | 13 episodes |
| 1994 | The X-Files The X-Files The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s... |
Alien Bounty Hunter | Episodes: "Colony Colony (The X-Files) "Colony" is the sixteenth episode of the second season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. "Colony" concerns Mulder and Scully's investigation of the murders of doctors with identical appearances and the reappearance of Mulder's sister Samantha.- Plot :The episode opens in medias... ", End Game End Game (The X-Files) "End Game" is the seventeenth episode of the second season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. "End Game" continues from the previous episode "Colony", and includes Mulder's pursuit and confrontation with the Alien Bounty Hunter who has captured Scully.- Plot :USS Allegiance, a... , 7 more episodes |
| 1996 | Kindred: The Embraced Kindred: The Embraced Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes before it was canceled on May 9, 1996. The... |
Eddie Fiori | 6 episodes as a the leader of the Gangrel Gangrel Gangrel may refer to:*Gangrel , a fictional clan of vampires in the role-playing game Vampire: the Masquerade*David Heath , an American professional wrestler better known as "Gangrel" in World Wrestling Entertainment... clan of vampires |
| 1997 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American television series that aired from March 10, 1997, until May 20, 2003. The series was created in 1997 by writer-director Joss Whedon under his production tag, Mutant Enemy Productions with later co-executive producers being Jane Espenson, David Fury, David... |
Luke, The Duke | Episodes: "Welcome to the Hellmouth Welcome to the Hellmouth "Welcome to the Hellmouth" is the series premiere of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This episode and "The Harvest" were originally aired as a two-part series premiere on The WB Television Network... ", "The Harvest", 2 more |