| 词条 | Nicholas Worth |
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| name = Nicholas Worth | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth-date|September 4, 1937}} | birth_place = Clayton, Missouri, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2007|5|7|1937|9|4}} | death_place = Van Nuys, California, U.S. | occupation = Actor }} Nicholas Worth (September 4, 1937 – May 7, 2007) was an American character actor who appeared on film, on TV, and in video-games. CareerAn imposing, bulky, balding (later bald) man with a powerful bass voice, Worth specialized in playing menacing, threatening characters.[1] His best-known, most typical roles are Kirk Smith, the tormented necrophiliac serial-killer of attractive young women in the low-budget horror film Don't Answer the Phone (1980),[2] and Ray, a fearsome homosexual rapist in the 1985 TV movie The Rape of Richard Beck. He began with a low-level TV career, appearing in one episode of Charlie's Angels as a kidnapper-on-skates. Subsequently, he played numerous roles as henchmen and tough guys in films such as Swamp Thing (1982), City Heat (1984), Doin' Time (1985), The Ladies Club (1986), No Way Out (1987), Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988), Action Jackson (1988), From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), Darkman (1990), Best of the Best 2 (1993), Circuitry Man II (1996), Barb Wire (1996) and Blood Dolls (1999). He appeared in the beginning of Heartbreak Ridge (1986) as a convict who gets beaten up by Clint Eastwood. He continued his TV career, playing small roles in sci-fi programs like Voyager and Deep Space Nine, and in WKRP in Cincinnati, Knight Rider and Night Court and in "Simon and Simon". He also did video-game work, portraying General Marzaq and Premier Romanov in Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer series of games, Sierra's A Gabriel Knight Mystery, Battle for Dune, and also voice-acted as Colonel Bulba/Mr. Jones in Freedom Fighters. WeightliftingWorth was an amateur power-lifter and bodybuilder.[2] Military serviceWorth served for three years in the army as a paratrooper.[3] ReligionWorth was a born-again Christian.[4] DeathWorth died of heart failure at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys at the age of 69.[3] Selected filmography{{Div col}}
References1. ^[https://variety.com/2007/film/news/nicholas-worth-69-actor-1117964799 Obituary], variety.com; accessed October 8, 2016. 2. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWbzYSZGcIQ Interview July 29, 2006: "Answering the phone", produced and directed by Bruce Holecheck ] 3. ^1 2 Obituary, L.A. Times, latimes.com, May 11, 2007; accessed October 8, 2016. 4. ^http://simple-movie.com/actor/nicholas-worth_50476/ External links
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