Matt Frewer
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It's likely that nothing American actor Matt Frewer ever did while training with Britain's Old Vic prepared him for the role that would boost him to stardom. In the early 1980s, Frewer began making appearances on a British music video show in the role of Max Headroom, an ostensibly computer-generated "talking head". Decked out in sunglasses and loud preppie clothes, Max Headroom would break into the middle of videos making nonsensical, obtrusive comments, his voice metallicized and distorted; Max' trademark was an electronic stutter, virtually indescribable on paper. In 1985 Max began conducting celebrity interviews, forever digressing from the conversation with self-involved harangues about his favorite subject, golf. So popular was Frewer as Headroom that Britain's Channel 4 devised a one-hour "documentary" titled Rebus: The Max Headroom Story, which alleged that Max had once been a flesh-and-blood TV newsman who was killed by an oppressive government to keep him from divulging secrets: his name, it was explained, was derived from the last words the "live" Max ever saw, a warning on a bridge reading "Maximum Headroom." This premise was modified a bit when Frewer starred on the 1986 American satirical talk show Max Headroom, which first appeared on the Cinemax cable service. Frewer continued the characterization into a local New York program, then played the dual role of Max and futuristic investigative reporter Edison Carter on ABC's brief Max Headroom comedy adventure series. In addition, Frewer essayed Max for a series of widely-imitated Coca Cola commercials. In 1989, Matt Frewer abandoned Max Headroom to seek out roles that didn't require computer enhancement; he subsequently starred in a few sitcoms, and in 1993 provided the voice of the title character in a new series of Pink Panther TV cartoons.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Residue |
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— | 2017 |
74% | The BFG |
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$55.5M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Love in Paradise |
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— | 2016 |
17% | Pixels |
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$66.5M | 2015 |
21% | Frankie & Alice |
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$0.7M | 2014 |
50% | Foreverland |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Delete |
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— | 2012 |
93% | 50/50 |
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$35.1M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Battle of the Bulbs |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Attack On Darfur |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Under the Hood |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter and Under the Hood |
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— | 2009 |
65% | Watchmen |
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$107.5M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Rampage |
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— | 2009 |
22% | Alice |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Wushu Warrior |
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— | 2008 |
58% | Weirdsville |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Stephen King's 'Desperation' |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Intern Academy |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Masters of Horror: Chocolate: Mick Garris |
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— | 2005 |
26% | Riding the Bullet |
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$0.2M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Geraldine's Fortune |
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— | 2004 |
0% | Going the Distance |
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— | 2004 |
50% | A Home at the End of the World |
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$0.9M | 2004 |
75% | Dawn of the Dead |
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$58.9M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | El Vampiro de la AbadÃa |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | The Case of the White Chapel Vampire |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | The Royal Scandal |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Sign of Four |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
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— | 2000 |
55% | Cyberworld |
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$5.3M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Jailbait! |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | In the Doghouse |
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— | 1998 |
40% | Breast Men |
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— | 1997 |
84% | Hercules |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Quicksilver Highway |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Dead Fire |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Apollo 11 |
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— | 1996 |
11% | Lawnmower Man 2 - Jobe's War (Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace) |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Generation X |
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— | 1996 |
0% | National Lampoon's Senior Trip |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Kissinger and Nixon |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | In Search of Dr. Seuss |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | The Day My Parents Ran Away |
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— | 1993 |
90% | The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom |
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— | 1993 |
75% | Twenty Bucks |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | The Taking of Beverly Hills |
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— | 1991 |
20% | Short Time |
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— | 1990 |
77% | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids |
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— | 1989 |
0% | Speed Zone |
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— | 1989 |
74% | The Fourth Protocol |
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— | 1987 |
37% | Ishtar |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Max Headroom - The Original Story |
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— | 1986 |
32% | Spies Like Us |
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— | 1985 |
9% | Supergirl |
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— | 1984 |
85% | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life |
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— | 1983 |
38% | The Lords of Discipline |
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— | 1983 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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76% |
Perry Mason
2020
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91% |
The Magicians
2016-2019
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100% |
The Order
2019-2020
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89% |
The Librarians
2014-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
2018
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91% |
Timeless
2016-2018
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93% |
Orphan Black
2013-2017
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88% |
12 Monkeys
2015-2018
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17% |
Olympus
2015
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92% |
The Knick
2014-2015
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21% |
Stephen King's Bag of Bones
2011
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81% |
Eureka
2006-2012
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93% |
Supernatural
2005
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33% |
Alice
2009
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63% |
Masters of Horror
2005-2007
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No Score Yet |
Steven Spielberg Presents 'Taken'
2002
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No Score Yet |
Hercules
1998-1999
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No Score Yet |
Tracey Takes On...
1996-1999
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No Score Yet |
The Incredible Hulk
1996-1997
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No Score Yet |
The Outer Limits
1995-2002
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No Score Yet |
Dumb and Dumber
1995-1996
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No Score Yet |
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
1995-1999
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70% |
The Stand (1994)
1994
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82% |
Picket Fences
1992-1996
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91% |
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987-1994
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72% |
Miami Vice
1984-1990
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92% |
Max Headroom
1987-1988
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No Score Yet |
St. Elsewhere
1982-1988
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No Score Yet |
A Town Called Eureka
2006-2012
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92% |
Castlevania
2017-2020
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No Score Yet |
Intelligence
2007
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50% |
Shaky Ground
1993
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Quotes from Matt Frewer's Characters
Mitch: | How come we haven't met Rachel? |
Alan: | Yeah, what the fuck? |
Frank: | Hey, I was never bit. |
Alan: | I'm Alan Lombardo, stage three lymphoma. Pleased to meet you. |
Mitch: | Mitch Barnett, metastatic prostate cancer. |
Adam: | Nice to meet you. Oh, I'm Adam Lerner, schwannoma neurofibrosarcoma. |
Alan: | I'm Alan Lombardo, stage three lymphoma. Pleased to meet you. |
Mitch: | Mitch Barnett, metastatic prostate cancer. |
Adam: | Nice to meet you. Oh, I'm Adam Lerner, schwannoma neurofibrosarcoma. |