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Jeffrey Combs
Jeffrey Alan Combs was born in Oxnard, California September 9th 1954. He was raised in Lompoc, California and studied Performing Arts at various institutions including the Professional Actor's Training Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. He started his acting career in theatre and made his feature film debut in 'Honky Tonk Freeway' as a Drive-In Teller. In 1983, he made his horror debut as Stu in Troma's production of 'Frightmare'. This would be the beginning of a prolific career in the horror genre, becoming quite an iconic figure. Most of this is down to his portrayal of Herbert West in the calssic 80's gorefest ' Re-Animator' and its sequels. He has become closely associated with the horror writer HP Lovecraft, having appeared in 5 films relating to his work ( Re-Animator, From Beyond, The Lurking Fear, Necronomicon and Castle Freak). In addition to this he has turned in an award worthy performance as Edgar Allen Poe, in the Masters of Horror episode 'The Black Cat'.
Although he is mostly known for his work in horror he has given many memorable performances in a wide array of films from Love And A .45, Brutal, Fortress, Death Falls and one of his most critically acclaimed performances, as Special Agent Milton Dammers in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners. No role is too small, no character too bizarre, just when you think he has tackled pretty much everything, he'll come back with another gripping performance.
Known mostly for his film work, he also has a large fanbase in the realm of television. He played the role of Dr Kevin Burkhoff in The 4400, a scientist who has the weight of the world on his shoulders but it is for his work in the Star Trek universe that he is mostly recognised for. As well as playing one off characters in several incarnations of the series he also played the Vorta, Weyoun in Deep Space Nine (a character that is highly revered by fans of the show) and Commander Shran in Enterprise.
He continues to work on various projects and also goes to conventions when his schedule permits it to meet up with the fans. An actor of many talents and a vast amount of work, there is more to him than meets the eye.
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Jeffrey Combs - what members say
review by from Saffron Walden, England
Great entertainment, but not as good as some of Jackson's other films. 5 October 2004
review by A customer from London, England
Another Dose of Gory Medicine 29 July 2004
review by Prodigy from Ipswich
Overlooked classic 30 October 2006
Jeffrey Combs - filmography
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Elf Man
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Jason Wee Man Acuna, Jeffrey Combs, Mackenzie Astin
Director: Ethan Wiley
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The Harper family is having a lousy Christmas. Ryan and Kasey are still struggling to adjust after their mother passed away several years ago. Their father, Eric, is also trying to start a new chapter in his life when he asks the pretty and charming local butcher, Amy, to join them for Christmas ..read more »
 
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from 73 members
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Witches of Oz
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Sean Astin, Mia Sara
Director: Leigh Scott
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A modern updating of the classic children's tale. Successful children's book author Dorothy Gale (Paulie Rojas) decides to exchange the rural charms of Kansas for the bright lights and bustle of New York. But on arrival in the 'Big Apple', Dorothy soon discovers that the world created in her books ..read more »
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from 763 members
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Transformers Prime - Series 1 Part 3 - D...
(2011)
Starring: Peter Cullen, Sumalee Montano, Jeffrey Combs
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Five more episodes from the first series of the CGI-animated franchise in which the Autobots and Decepticons return to do battle once again. While Arcee and Jack have their hands full dealing with the crash-landed Decepticon Airachnid, Optimus becomes infected with a deadly Decepticon plague, the ..read more »
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Parasomnia
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Dylan Purcell, Cherilyn Wilson, Brennan Bailey
Director: William Malone
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William Malone writes and directs this horror-thriller starring Cherilyn Wilson as Laura Baxter, a young woman suffering from parasomnia or 'sleeping beauty condition', a rare syndrome that causes its sufferers to literally sleep their lives away. When art student Danny Sloan (Dylan Purcell) visits ..read more »
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Wizard Of Gore
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Kip Pardue, Bijou Phillips, Crispin Glover
Director: Jeremy Kasten
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In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most ..read more »
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Brutal
(2007)
Starring: Daniel Torres Copeland, Eric Lange, Sarah Thompson
Director: Ethan Wiley
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Brooklyn mates Antonio, John, Jimmy and Mikey have known each other since childhood. They go out for the night and end up getting involved in a fight with a low-level gangster. Several months later they discover where this gangster operates a number's racket and decide to rob him. What they don't ..read more »
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Edmond
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Bai Ling
Director: Stuart Gordon
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In this slick but sleazy thriller, a fortune teller tells Edmond he is not where he belongs. He goes home, tells his wife it's over and he walks out. Free, he then enters New York's underworld of sex clubs and grim bars, but then fear and anxiety take over...
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Voodoo Moon
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Eric Mabius, Dee Wallace, Jayne Heitmeyer
Director: Kevin Van Hook
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Horror starring Charisma Carpenter. Twenty years ago, Cole (Eric Mabius) and Heather (Carpenter) survived an attack from a demonic force on their home town. Now, with Heather having developed psychic powers and Cole having set himself up as a freelance exorcist, the duo have to return to the site ..read more »
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Star Trek Enterprise - Season 4
(6 discs)
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Golden Brooks, Peter Weller, Joanna Cassidy
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All 23 episodes from the fourth and final season of the American television sci-fi drama, set 100 years before the events of the original 1960s series. In this series, the Temporal War has thrown the Enterprise back to Earth in 1944, where history is taking a completely different course. After ..read more »
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from 4,492 members
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Beyond Re-Animator
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jason Barry, Jeffrey Combs, Elsa Pataky
Director: Brian Yuzna
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Imprisoned for the death of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of one of his resurrected corpses, Dr. West continues his morbid research into the creation of life from behind bars. Making a breakthrough with his discovery of Nano-Plasmic Energy, a substance that prevents the living dead from ..read more »
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from 1,518 member
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Faust - Love of the Damned
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jennifer Rope, Mark Frost, Andrew Divoff
Director: Brian Yuzna
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After his girlfriend is brutally murdered, John Jaspers (Mark Frost) vows that he will do everything he can to exact his revenge. So when a mysterious cult leader (Andrew Divoff) offers him the power he needs in exchange for his immortal soul, John eagerly accepts. But the young man's new found ..read more »
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from 566 members
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House on Haunted Hill
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Lisa Loeb, Ali Larter, Famke Janssen
Director: William Malone
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Decades after inmates at the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane were killed during a revolt against the cruel regime, tycoon Stephen Price (Geoffrey Rush) hires the building from its present owner, Watson Pritchett (Chris Kattan), in order to throw a ghoulish birthday party ..read more »
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The Frighteners
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Elizabeth Hawthorne, Peter Dobson, Troy Evans
Director: Peter Jackson
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Comedy horror from New Zealand director Peter Jackson. Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) is a psychic investigator in the town of Fairwater, aided by three friendly ghosts who create supernatural disturbances for him to 'solve'. However, when Frank begins to see numbers carved into the foreheads of ..read more »
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The Frighteners - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Elizabeth Hawthorne, Peter Dobson, Troy Evans
Director: Peter Jackson
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Comedy horror from New Zealand director Peter Jackson. Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) is a psychic investigator in the town of Fairwater, aided by three friendly ghosts who create supernatural disturbances for him to 'solve'. However, when Frank begins to see numbers carved into the foreheads of ..read more »
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from 214 members
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Dillinger And Capone
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Catherine Hicks, Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham
Director: Jon Purdy
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When the FBI kill the wrong brother, Scarface (Al Capone) traces the real John Dillinger and forces him to plan one final bank heist. With his wife and son held by the Mob, John must make a success of his biggest bank job to date...
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from 128 members
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Love And A .45
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Peter Fonda, Jack Nance, Renee Zellweger
Director: C.M. Talkington
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After a spate of peaceful hold-ups using an empty .45, Watty (Gil Bellows) and his girlfriend Starlene (Renee Zellweger) find themselves in real trouble. Thanks to Watty's crazed partner Billy Mack Black (Rory Cochrane), a robbery has gone wrong and somebody has been killed for real. Now Watty and ..read more »
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from 289 members
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Castle Freak
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Barbara Crampton, Jessica Dollarhide, Jeffrey Combs
Director: Stuart Gordon
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John Reilly (Jeffrey Combs), Susan (Barbara Crampton FROM BEYOND) and their daughter are thrown into a world of terror when they travel to Italy to move into a castle they have inherited. What they didn't know is the castle is haunted by a relentlessly blood-thirsty creature. When mutilated bodies ..read more »
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Castle Freak - Blu-ray
(1994)
Starring: Barbara Crampton, Jessica Dollarhide, Jeffrey Combs
Director: Stuart Gordon
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John Reilly, his wife Susan and his beautiful blind daughter Rebecca inherit a castle in Italy. Rebecca begins to hear strange noises and senses a presence in the castle, and soon after she becomes the object of a monster's obsession. It is down to John to uncover his family's darkest secret in ..read more »
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Bride Of Re-Animator
(1990)
Starring: Bruce Abbott, David Gale, Fabiana Udenio
Director: Brian Yuzna
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The mad inventor who unleashed a plague of zombies in 'Re-Animator' returns to play God again, bringing the dead back to life and reanimating all manner of random body parts. This time Doctors West and Cain make some startling discoveries while on medical duty in a South American war zone, and soon ..read more »
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The Pit And The Pendulum - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Oliver Reed, Tom Towles
Director: Stuart Gordon
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Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror tale, set during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. When the beautiful Maria (Rona de Ricci) cries out in horror at the public torture of a child carried out by the inquisitor Torquemada (Lance Henriksen), she is immediately arrested herself and held ..read more »
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Pit And The Pendulum
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Oliver Reed, Tom Towles
Director: Stuart Gordon
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Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror tale, set during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. When the beautiful Maria (Rona de Ricci) cries out in horror at the public torture of a child carried out by the inquisitor Torquemada (Lance Henriksen), she is immediately arrested herself and held ..read more »
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From Beyond
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree
Director: Stuart Gordon
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Obsessive scientist Dr. Pretorius and his assistant Crawford Tillinghast have invented 'The Resonator', a device intended to simulate the brain's pineal gland and expand the powers of the mind. The machine gives them more than they bargained for however when a parallel universe inhabited by slimy ..read more »
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from 364 members
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Re-Animator
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott, David Gale
Director: Stuart Gordon
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When medical student Dan Cain finds his pet cat has been killed and stored in the fridge, he detects the hand of his crazed flatmate, Dr Herbert West. West is perfecting a serum which can reanimate life, and as his experiments begin to yield positive results, Dan and his girlfriend Megan become ..read more »
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Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Brian Austin Green, Scott William Winters
Director: Kantz
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Tony West is a successful pharmaceutical executive living in LA with his loving wife Sofia. But after a day of tense negotiations with potential buyers, Tony comes home to find his wife kidnapped - and the kidnappers demand he bring $50,000 to them within 90 minutes or she's dead. The police are ..read more »
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Cyclone
on DVD
Starring: Martin Landau, Dar Robinson, Jeffrey Combs
Director: Fred Olen Ray
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'Cyclone' is a powerful computer-controlled motorcycle developed by a military scientist who is assassinated. His girlfriend must get the machine to the right people, thus carrying out her boyfriend's wishes. People are murdered wherever she turns so she must use her old boyfriend's invention to ..read more »
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Horror In The Attic
Starring: Seth Green, Wendy Robie, Jeffrey Combs
Director: Jeremy Kasten
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Trevor Blackburn (Jeffrey Combs) wakes from a coma with no memory of his past and in a strange sanitarium for the criminally insane; apparently he was put there because he murdered his fiancee. When the patients of the sanitarium begin to be murdered one-by-one, he breaks into a secret attic with ..read more »
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...laugh-out-loud humor and the characters were entertaining (I particularly liked Jeffrey Combs as a massively overdone FBI investigator).
This film isn't as good as some o...
