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Alias Name(s): Kander Berkeley
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
Birthday: 12-16-1955
Birth Name: Xander R. Berkeley
Xander BerkeleyMore Photos As a child, Xander Berkeley acted in local experimental theater. His first big-screen appearance was in the cult favorite 'Mommie Dearest.' In the mid-1980's he co-starred in the Tom Hanks's vehicle 'Volunteers,' the drug opus 'Sid and Nancy,' and the proto-slacker comedy 'Tapeheads.' After he was memorably dispatched by the T-1000 in 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day,' he went on to notch...

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The Spectacular Spider-Man
Persona
Saturday 17 May 2008 on The CW

The Chameleon is out to blacken Spider-Man's name. The master of disguise loots the city while borrowing Spidey's look, forcing Peter Parker to get help from Black Cat.

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Xander is a skilled make-up artist. He designed his own make up when his character was suffering from radiation poisoning in the second season of 24. (edit)
Xander worked alongside Kiefer Sutherland in the movie A Few Good Men, before working with him on the television series 24. (edit)
In 2006 Xander was in the following movies:
Champions, The Garage, Seraphim Falls, and Fracture. (edit)
In 2005 Xander was in the following movies:
Drop Dead Sexy, Deepwater, Standing Still, and North Country. (edit)
In 2004 Xander was in the following movies:
Below the Belt, In Enemy Hands, and The Last Full Measure. (edit)

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Xander Berkeley: It's just one of those things that happens in Hollywood. I try to do variations from one role to the next, but it could be worse. I don't want to play some bland guy, you know some putty in the crack plot pusher - that's not terribly interesting, so you want to play some guy who has at least some kind of function to the centre of the story and if it's not the hero it is going to be the bad guy. (edit)
Xander Berkeley (on his role in Terminator 2): Yeah, that effect was done laboriously and painstakingly with a cast of the back of my head and a blade that comes out. It was not a digital effect. It was a total physical effect with puppetry and a blade that could contract. There was a small blade going out of the back of my head that retracted sideways away from the kitchen cabinet at the same time as the blade that was down my throat was pulled out. The problem was that the blade had to be far enough down my throat to look as though it was coming out of the back of my head. To get this right I had to practice sword swallowing for two weeks. (edit)
Xander Berkeley (on the terrorism element to 24): In season two, instead of stepping away from it they went into the centre of it and that was something else that we thought might have backfired. But the choices they have made have consistently paid off. It's something that people need and want to be more informed about because it does affect our personal lives. (edit)
Xander Berkeley (on 24): It’s the first show for a long time that is so loaded with information that it takes a sharp mind to follow it all. That creates supply and demand. There’s nothing else out there that’s arresting enough of the attention to warrant that kind of obsessive following. (edit)
Xander Berkeley (on shooting 24): They do two at the same time and it takes, I guess, somewhere in the area of two weeks to do the two episodes because they’ll do a string of days at the CTU, then they’ll do a string of days at the Presidential suite. Then they’ll do a string of days out in the field with Jack, and we all have to be there for off-camera telephone conversations. But it’s nice for the actors to get a few days off while they’re doing other sequences. (edit)

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24
George Mason
Sisters in Law
Campbell Knox
Winters
Lt. Adam Molnar
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24
George Mason
CSI
Sheriff Atwater
Guest Star
Batman Beyond
Curse of Kobra (2)
Dr. Chides
Batman Beyond
Curse of Kobra (1)
Dr. Chides
Bones
Intern in the Incinerator
Dr. Harlan Bancroft
Boston Legal
Mad About You
A.D.A. Rex Swarthmore
Cagney & Lacey
The Gang's All Here
Maurice
Duckman
Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'
Voice of the Butler
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9.6
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10.0
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"One of the all-time greats"
Great actor.
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