PETER WELLER - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 214486

PETER WELLER
Black and white publicity still of Peter Weller in his role in Robocop.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "Donald-/Stay out of Trouble/Rob/Peter Weller". B/w, 8x10 overall, image 6¼x9¼ (one surface). Depicted in a scene for Robocop. Peter Weller, born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin in 1947, is probably best known as the gun slinging scientist Buckaroo Banzai in the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (1984) and as Alex J. Murphy, a police officer who's transformed into a cyborg in Robocop (1987). But Weller as a versatile actor of stage, TV and films with four Broadway appearances and almost 60 TV shows and movies to his credit. Weller, who first appeared on TV in The Man Without a Country (1973) and on the silver screen in Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979), has played lead and support roles in Westerns (the aforementioned Butch and Sundance), comedies (Mighty Aphrodite, 1995), science fiction (Leviathan, 1989, and Screamers, 1995) and the simply bizarre (the aforementioned Buckaroo Banzai and in the role of Bill Lee, a stand-in for William S. Burroughs in Naked Lunch (1991). Weller also holds a Masters degree in Renaissance architecture; he's an occasional lecturer at Syracuse University on the Roman empire and hosted the TV documentary series Engineering an Empire (2005-2007). He directed an unsold TV pilot in 1993 called Partners which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. Fine condition.