Biography
Born in Washington, DC, raised in Canada and trained for the stage in England, he spent several years honing his craft in various UK stage productions, including "The Glass Menagerie", "A Comedy of Errors" and "Deathtrap". Frewer made his stage debut in "Bent", a drama about the treatment of homosexuals by the Nazis during the Holocaust and made his London stage debut in Israel Horowitz's drama "The Indian Wants the Bronx".
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Career Milestones
| Moved to England to pursue acting after dropping out of University | ||
| Raised in Peterborough, Ontario | ||
1980 | Made stage debut in "Bent" at Theatre Royal in York, England | |
1981 | London stage debut, "The Indian Wants the Bronx" | |
1983 | Made TV debut in "Tender is the Night" (aired on Showtime in 1985) | |
1983 | Made feature debut in a bit part in "The Lords of Discipline" | |
1984 | Played the title role in the British TV-movie and subsequent series "Max Headroom" | |
1985 | Reprised role for "The Max Headroom Show" on Cinemax | |
1987 | Hosted "The Original Max Talking Headroom Show" (Cinemax) | |
1987 | Starred in short-lived U.S. version of "Max Headroom" (ABC) | |
1989 | Cast as Dr. Mike Stratford on the CBS sitcom "Doctor, Doctor" | |
1989 | Co-starred as the bullying next-door neighbor in "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" | |
1992 | Starred on short-lived Fox sitcom "Shaky Ground" | |
1993 | Voiced the title character for the syndicated animated series "The Pink Panther" | |
1994 | Cast as Trashcan Man in the TV adaptation of Stephen King's "The Stand" | |
1995 | Played Alexander Haig in the TNT movie "Kissinger and Nixon" | |
1995 | Played the principal in "National Lampoon's Senior Trip" | |
1997 | Cast in the Canadian series "Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal" | |
1997 | Provided the voice of Panic in the animated feature "Hercules" | |
2000 | Played Sherlock Holmes in the Odyssey Network's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" | |
2002 | Portrayed Dr. Chet Wakeman in the Steven Spielberg-produced miniseries "Taken" (Sci Fi Channel) | |
2004 | Cast in Michael Cunningham's "A Home at the End of the World" | |
2004 | Starred in "Dawn of the Dead," a remake of the 1978 horror flick by George A. Romero | |
2006 | Cast in the TV adaptation of Stephen King's "Desperation" | |
2006 | Landed a recurring role on Sci Fi Channel's "Eureka" | |
2009 | Cast as villain Moloch the Mystic in Zack Snyder's film adaptation of "Watchmen" | |
2009 | Played the White Knight in the miniseries "Alice" (Syfy) | |
2010 | Acted opposite Halle Berry in the biographical drama "Frankie & Alice" | |
2011 | Cast opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen in "50/50" | |