Earl Boen, the veteran actor best known for his role as Dr. Peter Silberman in the Terminator movies, died Thursday in Hawaii at the age of 81.
The actor was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in the fall of 2022, according to a friend of Boen’s and his family.
Boen starred in The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines as Dr. Silberman, a criminal psychologist who was brought in to question Michael Biehn’s Kyle Reese in the first film. He also appeared in stock footage in Terminator: Dark Fate.
However, he racked up other film credits in the ’80s, such asBattle Beyond the Stars, The Man with Two Brains, and Alien Nation.
Supposedly, he retired from screen acting in December 2003, after the third installment ofTerminatorbut he continued acting as a voice actor on radio, animated series and video games.
Earl Boen is survived by his wife, Cathy. His first wife, Carole, passed away in 2001.