Famous roles . At first sight he'll ask about that blackhead on your nose. This background was a piece of CGI footage that had been generated for one of Morton and Jankel's ad agency's commercials,[3] later, in the United States version, generated by a Commodore Amiga computer. Click here to check out the Max Headroom TV series on DVD. Matthew George Frewer (born January 4, 1958) is a Canadian-American actor, singer and comedian. Gender: He was a regular on Eureka during the series' first two seasons, playing Jim Taggart. Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future is a 1985 cyberpunk television film created by Chrysalis Visual Programming Ltd. for Channel 4 in the UK to provide a back story for Max Headroom, a computer generated TV host.A British produced, yet American broadcast, television series, Max Headroom, was later developed from the original film. Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Nichelle Nichols, LeVar Burton, Colm Meaney, David Warner, and Paul Winfield have also voiced characters on the series.

Roles: [17] The video ended with a pair of exposed buttocks being spanked with a flyswatter before normal programming resumed. He was introduced in early 1985. The Max Headroom Show is a television series that debuted in the UK in 1985. This led to a series on the UK Channel 4 network with the Max Headroom character as a video jockey and interviewer. "[9] Only his head and shoulders were depicted, usually superimposed over a moving geometric background. The first incident took place for 25 seconds during the sports segment of WGN-TV's 9:00 p.m. news broadcast; the second occurred around two hours later, for about 90 seconds during PBS affiliate WTTW's broadcast of Doctor Who. UNDER CONSTRUCTION. The character was also referenced in an okudagram in the TNG episode "Conspiracy" as Vice Admiral Maxwell Headroom of the Starfleet Mission Operations Division. [6] He also appeared as Trashcan Man in the television miniseries The Stand. Despite being dubbed “ The World's first computer-generated TV host ” Max was in fact created using a human actor and a combination of prosthetics, make-up, costumes, and hand-drawn backgrounds to create the illusion that he was in fact a CGI character.

Computing technology in the mid-1980s was not sufficiently advanced yet for a full-motion, voice-synchronized human head to be practical for a television series. He reprised this role in the science fiction comedy film Pixels (2015). He has played the same character (Max Headroom) in four different series: The Max Headroom Show (1985), Max Headroom (1987), The Original Max Talking Headroom Show (1987) and Sesame Street (1969). The classic look for the character is a shiny dark suit often paired with Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses. | Max Headroom: Paranoimia (Video short 1986) Max Headroom (voice) Spies Like Us (1985) Soldier #2 Tender Is the Night (TV Mini-Series 1985) American in Bar (1 episode, 1985) American Playhouse (TV Series 1985) Soldier (1 episode, 1985) Max Headroom (TV Movie 1985) Edison Carter / Max Headroom HEADROOM: 2.3 M" (an overhead clearance of 2.3 metres) suspended across a car park entrance. Max Headroom is a British fictional artificial intelligence (AI) character, known for his wit and stuttering, electronically altered voice. [3] He was raised in Peterborough, Ontario, where he graduated from Lakefield College School. Max Headroom (TV Series 1987–1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Matt Frewer has been travelling all over North America in recent months filming recurring roles. Shout! Official Sites https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Matt_Frewer?oldid=2617583. Release Dates It was produced by Carlton TV and aired on Channel 4, with an initial series of 13 shows. [12], Frewer has been married to Amanda Hillwood since 1984. Check out our picks for movies that (hopefully) won't keep you up at night. Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays and W. Morgan Sheppard played the same roles in the original telefilm as they did in the ABC series. "[4] Producer Peter Wagg had already hired writers David Hansen and Paul Owen to construct Max Headroom's "whole persona"[5], which Morton described as the "very sterile, arrogant, Western personification of the middle-class, male TV host". | Max Headroom: Paranoimia, A Very Special Christmas with Beavis and Butt-Head, Quicksilver Highway: An Interview with Matt Frewer, Television: The Magic Rectangle - An Anatomy of the TV Personality, What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. His co-stars in this film included Terry O'Quinn, Louise Fletcher, Raphael Sbarge, Frank Novak, and Heidi Swedberg.