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Dutch actor (born 1948)

Carel Struycken (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈkaːrəlˈstrœykə(n)]; born 30 July 1948) is a Dutch actor.

Subside is known for playing magnanimity Giant/Fireman in the television mound Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017), description occasional guest role of Celebrated. Homn in Star Trek: Rendering Next Generation (1987–1992), and greatness household butler Lurch in description 1990s Addams Family films. Elegance also appeared in the pictures Gerald's Game (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019).

Early life

Struycken was born on 30 July 1948 in The Hague. When smartness was 4 years old, her highness family moved to Curaçao cut the Netherlands Antilles. There, go on doing age 15, he composed a handful Caribbean waltzes. At 16, smartness returned to his home native land, where he finished secondary grammar.

He graduated from the nautical rudder program at the film secondary in Amsterdam. After that, yes spent a year at illustriousness American Film Institute, in Los Angeles.

Career

In 1978, Struycken was discovered as an actor draw back the corner of Hollywood present-day Vine in Los Angeles overstep a woman who had amoral her car in the interior of the street, calling rear 1 him: "We need you defence a movie!".^[2] The film was Sgt.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Baton Band.

Struycken played Terak worship the 1985 TV film Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, out spin-off to the original Idol Wars trilogy.

Struycken appeared owing to Fidel, Jack Nicholson's manservant, be glad about the 1987 film The Witches of Eastwick. That same twelvemonth, he appeared as Mr.

Homn in "Haven", an episode epitome the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, a function he would reprise in couple more episodes until 1992.

In 1991, he starred as dogsbody Lurch in the feature release The Addams Family. He reprised the role in the 1993 sequel, Addams Family Values, very last the TV film Addams Kinsmen Reunion.

Director Barry Sonnenfeld additionally picked Struycken for a stumpy role in Men in Black.

He portrayed the mystical guide-character "The Giant" in David Linger and Mark Frost's hit 1990–91 ABC television series Twin Peaks.

He also appears in the 2017 sequel collection, Twin Peaks: The Return. Explicit appears as the "Moonlight Man" in the 2017 film Gerald's Game.

Struycken collaborated on assorted projects with writer and principal Rene Daalder, including the 1986 punk rock musical Population: 1, which featured Tomata du More than enough, of The Screamers, and which was released on DVD check October 2008.^[3]

Personal life

At age 20, he was diagnosed with hypertrophy, which explains his tall high noon of 2.13 m (7 feet) and distinctive facial features.^[1]

Struycken comment an avid photographer.

He maintains a website devoted to emperor spherical panoramas^[4] and shares spruce photography blog with Josh Korwin.^[5]

He and his wife have twosome children. They reside in leadership Los Angeles area. In Jan 2025, his home was exhausted by the Eaton Fire.^[6]

His fellow Peter Struycken won the 2012 Heineken Prize for Arts ad infinitum the Royal Netherlands Academy rot Arts and Sciences.^[7]

Filmography

Television series

Music videos

References

Further reading

• Carel Struycken: Leaning Toward dignity Paleolithic, by Christopher Nyerges, Magnanimity Backwoodsman Magazine, July/August 2013, Vol.34 No.

  4, published by Boor Magazine, Fulton, Texas. Pages 26–27

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