Happy Birthday Michael Biehn! He begun his genre career playing a Sandman in an episode of Logan’s Run. Next, Biehn played Tom Reardon in the tv movie, A Fire in the Sky (1978). One of his finest roles was as Sgt. Kyle Reese, time traveling to 1984 to save the future from The Terminator (1984). He returned to collaborate with director James Cameron playing Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens (1986). One of my favorite roles was in the horror film, The Seventh Sign (1988) where Biehn played Russell Quinn, a lawyer who is witness to the Biblical apocalypse. He returned to work with Cameron on his sci fi film, The Abyss (1989), as Lt. Coffey. Another brilliant film was Tombstone (1993) which had Biehn playing Johnny Ringo, the drunk gunslinger taking on Doc Holliday in the one fo the best westerns.
Michael Biehn at the Hollywood Collectors Show, 2010, photo by the author.
He played Commander Charles Anderson in the action movie, The Rock (1996). Biehn starred in the western tv series The Magnificent Seven (1998-2000) playing Chris Larabee. In 2002, Biehn starred in the sci fi film, Clockstoppers, directed by Jonathan Frakes. He played Sheriff Hague in the Planet Terror segment directed by Robert Rodriguez in the Grindhouse (2007) film. Michael Biehn co-wrote and directed the thriller The Victim (2011) playing Kyle Limato. Biehn was Buzz in the 2014 24 Hour Rental tv series. In 2014, Biehn played the brutal father of two women in the thriller, Hidden in the Woods, a remake of a Chilean movie. Next, Biehn was King Yannick in The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015) released on Netflix. He starred in The Shadow Effect in 2017. Biehn stars as Roadkill Jim in a 2019 episode of the action show Curfew. He played the gunfighter, Lang, facing The Mandalorian in the episode, “The Jedi” (2020). Happy Birthday Michael Biehn!
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