University of North Texas (BA) Syracuse University (MA) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD)
Occupations
Actor
television director
Years active
1973–present
Spouse
Shari Stowe
(m. 2006)
Children
1
Academic background
Thesis
Alberti Before Florence: Early Sources Informing Leon Battista Alberti's De Pictura (2014)
Doctoral advisor
Charlene Villaseñor Black
Peter Francis Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American actor and television director.
He has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including RoboCop (1987) and its sequel RoboCop 2 (1990), in which he played the titular character; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984); and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).[1] He appeared in such films as Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995), the Oliver Stone-produced The New Age (1994), and David Cronenberg's adaptation of William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch (1991).
In addition to a Saturn Award nomination for his RoboCop role, he received an Academy Award nomination for his 1993 short Partners, in which he also acted. In television, he hosted the program Engineering an Empire on the History Channel from 2005 to 2007. He played Christopher Henderson in the fifth season of 24, Stan Liddy in the fifth season of the Showtime original series Dexter, and Charles "Charlie" Barosky in 11 episodes in the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy. From 2012 to 2017, he was involved in the A&E (now Netflix) series Longmire as a director and actor. In 2017, he appeared on The Last Ship as Dr. Paul Vellek. He reprised his role as RoboCop by providing his voice for Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019 and RoboCop: Rogue City in 2023.
He holds a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History from UCLA.[2][3][4][5]
^"TV: 'RoboCop' Heads to Miami for 'Dexter'!". 13 July 2010.
^Weller, Peter Francis (2014). Alberti Before Florence: Early Sources Informing Leon Battista Alberti's De Pictura (Thesis). UCLA.
^Nostrand, Barbara Van (2023-09-05). "Art is their adventure: Graduate students will benefit from Peter and Sheri Weller's beautiful vision". Humanities Division - UCLA. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
^"Actor-Scholar Peter Weller Headlines ODU's 46th Annual Literary Festival". Old Dominion University. 2023-09-27. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
^Dafoe, Taylor (2018-08-14). "The Actor Who Played Robocop Is Now an Art Historian, and He's Returning to Detroit to Face a New Threat: 'The Crisis of Beauty'". Artnet News. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
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