Peter Weller

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). 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. Provided by Wikipedia