Personal Info
Birth date
1948-07-30 (76 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Also known as
کارل استریکن
Carel Struycken
Biography
Carel Struycken is a Dutch character actor who is known for his large height of 7 ft 0 in and his distinctive face. He is also a photographer in his personal time.
Filmography
Star Trek: The Next Generation
8.4
Overview:
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.Star Trek: Voyager
7.795
Overview:
Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.Babylon 5
8.039
Overview:
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.My Name Is Earl
7.666
Overview:
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma.Charmed
8.181
Overview:
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.Twin Peaks
8.3
Overview:
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.St. Elsewhere
5.5
Overview:
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.Hunter
7.2
Overview:
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.Men in Black
7.209
Overview:
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.The Addams Family
7.057
Overview:
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.Addams Family Values
6.958
Overview:
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.The Legacy
NYR
Overview:
Before the old Andreas Heydecoper wants to commit suicide, he calls all his children and grandchildren to his home in Curaçao. He wants to see his family for the last time. When Andreas has died, his children and grandchildren burn him. But they find out that Andreas wasn't loved by everyone... And when they visit the notary to get their part of the heritage, the notary says they can't. Before they will get the heritage, Andreas's will says they have to find the 'Vuurmeisje'.Doctor Sleep
7.145
Overview:
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".A Captain's Log
7.5
Overview:
A Journalistic news source and interview TV Talk show beaming down the latest Star Trek news and views from all the ships crews. A Captain's Log guides viewers through this side of our galaxy's quadrant with a splash of knowledge in our top 10 lists and interviews. Looking through Roddenberry's Star Trek universe and beyond in this half hour scoop at warp power, host Bryan Kreutz, his co-host Lili Fox-Lim steer viewers into a knowledge-based trek of Klingon language all the way through full interviews with guests the fans want to hear from. Bryan and Lili are accompanied by an animated alter ego named Rogg to humor viewers with relevant Star Trek news and views. From a Starfleet ambassador's point of view, as Ambassador to the fan's, Bryan Kreutz hands over the conn to his animated android counterpart's perspective ranging from logical knowledge to unknowns in Star Trek's Past, present, and beyond.Gerald's Game
6.395
Overview:
When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.The Witches of Eastwick
6.547
Overview:
Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
5.446
Overview:
The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village, killing Cindel's family. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escape and meet Teek in the forest, a naughty and very fast animal. Teek takes them to a house in which an old man, Noa, lives. Like Cindel, he also crashed with his Starcruiser on Endor. Together they fight Terak and Charal.Addams Family Reunion
4.781
Overview:
The Addams Family goes on a search for their relatives. Gomez and Morticia are horrified to discover that Grandpa and Grandma Addams have a disease that is slowly turning them "normal". The only chance they have of a cure is to find a family member hoping that they know a home remedy.Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4.3
Overview:
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.ReVamped
3.9
Overview:
Successful businessman Richard Clarke is bitten by a beautiful vampire and is plunged into the dark world of the supernatural. Richard very quickly realizes that being undead isn't all that it's cracked up to be.The Eden Theory
5
Overview:
After his best friend disappears, Tom Edwards world unravels when he’s investigated relentlessly by a dogged detective. All signs point to Tom as the prime suspect except for the strange and unexplainable events that follow Tom. Meanwhile, tensions rise between Tom and his girlfriend, Jamie, as they hide the truth from each other, from the detective and both realize things aren’t what they seem. Is there really something sinister out in the woods surrounding their quiet town, or is Tom covering for an unspeakable crime? The truth is violently revealed.The Prey
4.343
Overview:
Three couples go on a camping trip in the woods of southern California during the summer, where a deformed man is stalking their camp.Die Laughing
4.7
Overview:
A San Francisco cab driver find himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds himself framed for a murder and chased…Oblivion
4.95
Overview:
On another planet which resembles the Old West, a die-hard pacifist is forced to re-examine his ways after an evil alien bandit and his gang murder his estranged sheriff father, take over his home town, and threaten his friends.Trophy Heads
4.773
Overview:
An obsessed fan and his mother kidnap former 'scream queens' and force them to reenact their famous film roles...with deadly results.I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
5.111
Overview:
A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!Out There
4.75
Overview:
A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he discovers some undeveloped film in it, including photos of an apparent alien abduction. When he goes public with the photos, he garners the attention of his former boss, the government and a woman who thinks her father was the abductee.Servants of Twilight
5
Overview:
Based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz, this action packed thriller features Bruce Greenwood as a private detective hired to protect a little boy from a fanatical religious cult that believe he is the antichrist fortold in the book of Revelations.Journey to the Center of the Earth
3.813
Overview:
This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes John Neville, F. Murray Abraham and Kim Miyori.Oblivion 2: Backlash
4.375
Overview:
In the alien-western world of Oblivion, a suave, yet lethal bounty hunter named Sweeney arrives to arrest the seductive outlaw Lash on multiple charges, including murder. Lash, who just "inherited" a mine of Derconium (the most valuable mineral in the universe) from Crowley in a game of cards, meets up with Redeye's brother, Jaggar, who wants the mine for himself to rule the galaxy. It's a fight over Lash between the sheriff of Oblivion, Jaggar, and Sweeney. But who will emerge victorious?Acting
2022Class of '85 as Roy
2021A Captain's Log (1 Episode) as Self
2021The Eden Theory as The Stranger
2019Doctor Sleep as Grampa Flick
2017The Number of Completion as Self
2017I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun as Self
2017Gerald's Game as Moonlight Man
2017When the Witches Came to Town as Himself
2014Trophy Heads as Brother Humphrey
2008Sinterklaas en het geheim van het Grote Boek as Dr. Ferdinand
2007Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks as Unknown
2007ReVamped as Mr. Vincent
2005My Name Is Earl (1 Episode) as Paul
2005The Fallen Ones as High Priest #1
2004The Legacy (9 Episodes) as Unknown
2002Fatal Kiss as Mortician
2001The Vampire Hunters Club as Host Vampire
1998Addams Family Reunion as Lurch
1998Charmed (1 Episode) as Giant Demon
1998I Woke Up Early the Day I Died as Undertaker
1997Men in Black as Arquillian
1996Oblivion 2: Backlash as Gaunt
1995Under the Hula Moon as Clyde
1995Out There as Mr. Burke
1995Star Trek: Voyager (1 Episode) as Spectre
1994Oblivion as Gaunt
1994Babylon 5 (1 Episode) as Trader
1993Addams Family Values as Lurch
1993Journey to the Center of the Earth as Dallas
1991Night of the Kickfighters as Ponti
1991The Addams Family as Lurch
1991Servants of Twilight as Kyle Barlow
1990Framed as Jinx
1990Twin Peaks (5, 2, 2 Episode) as The Giant, ???????, The Fireman
1987Star Trek: The Next Generation (5 Episodes) as Mr. Homn
1987The Witches of Eastwick as Fidel
1985Ewoks: The Battle for Endor as Terak
1984Hunter (1 Episode) as Occult Store Owner (uncredited)
1983The Prey as The Monster
1982St. Elsewhere (1 Episode) as Unknown
1980Die Laughing as Gregor the Giant
1978Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as The Brute
1978Tarzana as Polynesian
Editing
1986Population: 1 ... Editor
Production
1986Population: 1 ... Producer