Bruce Abbott

Actor

July 28, 1954 (71 years)

Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Biography

Bruce Paul Abbott (born July 28, 1954) is an American actor. He has appeared in movies such as Re-Animator, Bad Dreams, The Prophecy II, Out of Time, and Bride of Re-Animator, and the TV series Dark Justice. Abbott's career began as a dancer/actor in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, where he spent three seasons in the late 1970s. In 1980, Abbott relocated from Portland to Hollywood ("in the middle of the actors' strike, and I didn't know Anyone," he recalls). Shortly afterwar…

Filmography

7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Wayne Metzger / Stearns

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

7.7

MacGyver

Russian Agent Nikolaj Kossov

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.

7.1

Diagnosis: Murder

Paul Madison

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

8.1

Family Law

Colin Andrews

Family attorney and mom, Lynn Holt, has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together, since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, they're all determined to make the most of this unexpected second chance—and make each month's mortgage payment.

6.9

Dark Justice

Judge Nicholas Marshall

A judge turns into a vigilante by night in order to bring to justice the high-level offenders that use technicalities to "escape" the legal system.

6.7

UC: Undercover

UC: Undercover is an action-thriller television series that focuses on the secret lives and private demons of an elite Justice Department crime-fighting unit that confronts the country’s deadliest, most untouchable lawbreakers by going undercover to bust them. The series was broadcast from 2001 to 2002. The stories were written by Shane Salerno. James Bond composer David Arnold wrote the main title theme and scored the pilot episode. Salerno said the show would be a "very music driven series." UC: Undercover was a production of NBC Studios in association with Jersey Films, Chasing Time Pictures, Regency Television, and 20th Century Fox Television. Its short but popular run ended when it was canceled by the network. The show developed a passionate following overseas and continues to run on FX International.

7.1

Re-Animator

Dan Cain

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

6.7

The Blue and the Gray

Jake Hale Jr.

The Blue and the Gray is a television miniseries that first aired on CBS in three installments on November 14, November 16, and November 17, 1982. Set during the American Civil War, the series starred John Hammond, Stacy Keach, Lloyd Bridges, and Gregory Peck as President Abraham Lincoln. It was executive produced by Larry White and Lou Reda, in association with Columbia Pictures Television, then owned by The Coca-Cola Company.

6.0

The Prophecy II

Thomas Daggett

The archangel Gabriel returns to try to destroy the human race he despises so much, with the help of a suicidal teen and the opposition of the angel Danyael.

6.4

Bride of Re-Animator

Dr. Dan Cain

Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan's dearly deceased Meg Halsey.

7.4

Beauty and the Beast

Devin Wells

Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community beneath New York City. They share a psychic bond, and he protects her from above.

5.2

Casual Sex?

Keith

Two girls go away to a holiday resort looking for a change of pace, hoping to meet some nice men for a change. They discover that they can't find the perfect man, and this forces them to reconsider their attitudes to men in general.

5.7

Bad Dreams

Dr. Alex Karmen

Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.

5.5

Black Scorpion

Michael Russo

Darcy is a cop who is also a supehero named Black Scorpion at night who kicks and beats evildoers to a pulp. She soon catches wind of an asthmatic mad scientist who plans on tainting the city's air supply with a toxin. Only Darcy in her superhero garb can stop him with the assistance of a petty thief named Argyle.

4.6

Summer Heat

Jack Ruffin

The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand.

5.0

Command 5

Deke Williams

A team of special military forces has to save a small town which has been taken hostage by an organization called the Brotherhood.

N/A

Johnny Ryan

Tom Kelly

An honest, hard-working cop has to go up against the mob in 1949 New York City.

4.6

Kaleidoscope

Sam (Father)

A family friend hires gumshoe John Chapman to find and reunite three sisters estranged by fate for 30 years. The circuitous trail leads Chapman from the Big Apple to Beantown to the City of Light. His investigation, however, opens the door to disturbing revelations about a forgotten past.

6.4

Out of Time

Channing Taylor

A cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his grandfather to capture a master criminal.

5.6

Why Me?

Markus

An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.