- Nicholas Worth
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- Not to be confused with Niklaus Wirth.
Nicholas Worth Born September 4, 1937
Clayton, MissouriDied May 7, 2007 (aged 69)
Van Nuys, CaliforniaNicholas Worth (September 4, 1937 - May 7, 2007) was an American character actor who portrayed General Marzaq and Premier Romanov in Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer series of games, Emperor: Battle for Dune, and also voice-acted as Colonel Bulba/Mr. Jones in Freedom Fighters. He also took up several smaller roles in sci-fi programs like Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He began with a low-level TV career, notably appearing on Charlie's Angels as a thug-on-skates. He broke into movies, and established his reputation with his outrageously hammy performance as the tormented lunatic killer in the low-budget cult classic horror film Don't Answer the Phone (1980).
He was a large, bulky, balding (later bald) man with a wide mouth and a powerful bass voice.
Worth is best known for his stellar performance as Bruno in the 1982s Swamp Thing which is a big screen version of the comic book Swamp Thing. Famed horror director Wes Craven said working with Nicholas in Swamp Thing was a highlight of his career.
He also had minor roles as henchmen, notably as Thug #1 in The Naked Gun, Cup Breaker in No Way Out, Ryles and Hower in two episodes of Knight Rider, as a butler/assassin in Action Jackson, and as one of Larry Drake's goons named Pauly in Darkman and also appeared in Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II.
Worth appeared on a 1991 episode of the TV series Night Court as Mr Birnbach.
Worth took the part of Kommissar Leber in The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (1995).
Worth was a dedicated bodybuilder and powerlifter. He died of heart failure.
He was a born-again Christian.
External links
- Nicholas Worth at the Internet Movie Database
- Nicholas Worth at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
Categories:- 1937 births
- 2007 deaths
- American film actors
- American television actors
- People from St. Louis, Missouri
- Deaths from heart failure
- Actors from Missouri
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