Carel Struycken

Carel Struyken was born in the Hague, The Netherlands. When he was four years old his family moved to Curacao, an island in the Caribbean. At age sixteen, he returned to his country, where he finished high school. He graduated from the directing program at the film school in Amsterdam, following which he did a year at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

After school, he collaborated on a number of projects of writer/director Rene Daalder. He was "discovered" as an actor at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles by a lady who had abandoned her car in the middle of the street, calling after him, "We need you for a movie!". The movie was Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978). The turning point in his acting career however was Star Wars: Les Aventures des Ewoks - La Bataille pour Endor (1985), a George Lucas film. In addition to cinema, he has also appeared on TV, notably as the recurring character, valet Mr. Homn, on Star Trek: La nouvelle génération (1987).

Carel has also helped in hardware and software development of virtual reality systems.

 

Seen in :

 

• 1985 - Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (TV Movie) asTerak

• 1987 - The Witches of Eastwick as Fidelw

• 1987–1992Star Trek: The Next GenerationMr. Homn

• 1990–1991Twin PeaksThe Giant

• 1991, 1993 & 1998 - The Addams Family as Lurch

• 1994 - Oblivion as Gaunt

• 1997- Men in Black as Arquillian

• 2019 - Doctor Sleep as Grandpa Flick

• 2017 - Twin Peaks: The ReturnThe Fireman

• Etc.

 

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