Peter Weller

Acting · Born 1947-06-24 · Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA

Biography

Peter Frederick Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor, director and lecturer. He is best known for his roles as the title character in the first two RoboCop films and Buckaroo Banzai in the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. He received an Academy Award nomination for his direction for the 1993 short Partners, in which he also acted. He also hosted the show Engineering an Empire on the History channel. He played Stan Liddy in the 5th Season of the Showtime original series, Dexter.

Known for

• The Adventures of Cliff Booth (2026)
• Bang (2025)
• Exterminate All Rational Thought (2023)
• Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2' (2017)
• The Tao of Buckaroo (2015)
• It's Better in Italian (2015)
• Skin Trade (2014)
• Repentance (2014)
• Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
• Dragon Eyes (2012)
• Forced To Fight (2011)
• Once Fallen (2010)
• William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)
• God of War: Unearthing the Legend (2010)
• Prey (2007)
• Dating Vietnam (2007)
• Egypt: Engineering an Empire (2006)
• The Hard Easy (2006)
• Undiscovered (2005)
• The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
• Rome: Engineering an Empire (2005)
• The Order (2003)
• Buckaroo Banzai Declassified (2002)
• Styx (2001)