Xander Berkeley has appeared in more than two hundred films and television series, usually as an official of some kind whose cooperation is conditional.
Terminator 2, Apollo 13, Candyman and Air Force One all use the same quality, and 24 gave him George Mason, whose arc across a season ends better than the character deserves.
He is also a painter and sculptor, and does his own makeup effects work on occasion, which is unusual for a working actor.
Kasi LemmonsBernard Rose adapts Clive Barker's story about a graduate student researching an urban legend that summons a hook-handed killer. Candyman is Bernard Rose's 1992 American supernatural horror film adapted from Clive Barker's short story 'The Forbidden', depicting a graduate student…
Famke JanssenTaken is the best pure action film of the twenty-first century. Pierre Morel directed it in thirty-six days in Paris on a twenty-five million dollar budge.
Bill PaxtonThe film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerJames Cameron's most audacious decision in Terminator 2 isn't the liquid metal effects or the freeway chase or the nuclear dream sequence. It's taking his own iconic villain and making him the film's emotional center.
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