Peter Weller Add to My Celebs Age 64 Birthday Jun. 24th, 1947 Born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA Height 6' 0

Peter Weller's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Odyssey 5 Chuck Taggart

Main Movie Roles 2010 - William S. Burroughs: A Man Within 2010 - Once Fallen 2007 - Prey 2005 - The Hard Easy 2003 - The Order 2000 - Contaminated Man 1998 - Top of the World 1995 - Decoy 1995 - Mighty Aphrodite 1995 - Screamers 1994 - The New Age 1991 - Naked Lunch 1990 - RoboCop 2 1989 - Leviathan 1988 - Shakedown 1987 - RoboCop 1986 - A Killing Affair 1984 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1979 - Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Peter Weller is the youngest son of a career Army helicopter pilot. He was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin but traveled extensively as his father literally flew around the world. Before he was out of his teens, he had attended high schools in Heidelberg, Germany and San Antonio, Texas, then enrolled the University of North Texas -- attracted by the chance of playing trumpet in one of the college's celebrated jazz bands.

Music is in his family. Three generations on his mother's side were piano players and jazz is still his overriding interest. Ask him who his favorite performer in any art form is and he'll say Miles Davis (I). It was with a B.A. in Theatre and a scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts that he left Texas for New York. Two weeks after graduating, he made his first appearance on Broadway as David in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones", a role he repeated on the London stage. While a student of legendary actress and drama coach, Uta Hagen, Weller appeared on and off Broadway in works like William Inge's "Summer Brave", Thomas Babe's "Rebel Women" and "Full Circle", one of the last plays directed by Otto Preminger.

He began garnering critical acclaim with his portrayal of Billie Wilson in "Streamers", directed by Mike Nichols (I) for Joseph Papp at Lincoln Center. He continued that success with his performances as Cliff in "The Woolgatherer" and as Nick in the first American production of David Mamet's "The Woods". During this period, he became a member of the highly respected Actor's Studio, under the aegis of Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg.

Weller's film debut was in Richard Lester (I)'s Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979). He then co-starred with Alan King (I) and Ali MacGraw in Sidney Lumet's Just Tell Me What You Want (1980) and, with Albert Finney and Diane Keaton, in Alan Parker (I)'s Shoot the Moon (1982). Other film credits include Firstborn (1984) with Teri Garr, the HBO made-for-TV Apology (1986) (TV), co-starring Lesley Ann Warren, and Of Unknown Origin (1983), the film which won Weller the Best Actor award at the Paris International Film Festival for his performance as an upwardly mobile bachelor with a serious rat problem. That same film also marked his first association with Leviathan (1989) director George P. Cosmatos.


TRIVIA:

• Graduated from the University of North Texas in 1969.
• Is a serious runner who finished the New York Marathon in 1986 in three hours and forty minutes.
• In a jazz band with actor 'Jeff Goldblum' (qv) (they were also in a band together in the movie _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)_ (qv)) - they perform at local clubs in LA.
• He teaches a literature and fine arts class at Syracuse University. He can be seen on The History Channel's new documentary on Roman engineering.
• Graduated from Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, Texas, in 1965.
• He holds a master's degree in Roman and Renaissance art and is working toward a Ph.D. One of Syracuse University's most popular professors.
• Fan of cigar smoking, which got him into a heavy argument once in an outdoor restaurant. Though he remains defensive about his right to smoke, he has since then either put out his cigar or gone elsewhere when asked to do so.
• Was at one stage attached to appear in _AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)_ (qv) in a cameo as John Yutani, the other half of the infamous "Weyland-Yutani" Company from the "Alien" films.

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