Kurtwood Smith
For many Kurtwood Smith is best know for playing the villain in science fiction action movie RoboCop but despite a string of roles since then Smith's career hasn't exactly soared so what has he been up to?
Smith kicked off his career in the eighties with roles in TV mini series North and South and The Delos Adventure before he took on the role of Clarence Boddicker in the popular RoboCop.
Set in a dystopian near future, in Detroit, Michigan. Violent crime is out of control, and the city is in financial ruin. Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine.
An ambitious executive (Miguel Ferrer) at OCP, the corporation running the futuristic city of Detroit, fuses Murphy's torso with bulletproof steel limbs and rewires his brain with computer chips so he will have no will of his own.
Murphy's former partner (Nancy Allen) tries to help RoboCop remember his human past, but his circuitry blocks whatever dim memories remain.
Luckily, a chance encounter with one of his killers wakes up the human essence in RoboCop, causing him to rebel against his programming and commence on a one-cyborg mission of vengeance that leads all the way to the top of OCP.
The film was a massive success grossing $54 million in the US alone and it went on to become one of the biggest grossing movies of 1987 and spawning two sequels. The out of control and evil Boddicker is his most famous role and one of cinema's all time greatest villains.
Off the back of this role Smith moved into television where he found success with The New Adventure of Beans Baxter between 1987-89.
Since then he has moved between television and movies working on the likes of X-Files and Dead Poets Society. More recently he has appeared in medical drama House before working on That '70s Show.
But 2009 will see the actor return to the small screen as he is set to appear as a Senator in hit show 24.
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