
Jeffrey Combs
Highest Rated: 100% What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Deep Space Nine (2018)
Lowest Rated: 0% Caught Up (1998)
Birthday: Sep 09, 1954
Birthplace: Oxnard, California, USA
Character actor Jeffrey Combs endeared himself to legions of B-movie buffs with a prodigious body of work that specialized in portrayals of mad scientists, historical literary figures, and alien beings of all stripes. Combs burst onto the horror movie scene with his career-making portrayal of Dr. Herbert West, a dedicated, but disturbed scientist, intent on reviving dead tissue in "The Re-Animator" (1985). A slew of similar roles and films followed, including "From Beyond" (1986) and "Bride of Re-Animator" (1990). He also managed to play the literary creator of Dr. West, horror author H.P. Lovecraft in "Necronomicon" (1993). On television, Combs found recurring roles as various aliens on the sci-fi franchise spin-offs "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (syndicated, 1992-99) and "Star Trek: Enterprise" (UPN, 2001-05). His virtuoso personification of the father of modern horror, Edgar Allan Poe, in an episode of the cable anthology series "Masters of Horror" (Showtime, 2005-07), proved so successful that it inspired an acclaimed one-man theater show in which Combs expanded upon the role. While other actors might have struggled to break away from the perceived typecasting that defined Combs' career, he instead chose to embrace it, going on to become one of the most revered genre actors in film or television.
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Filmography
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20% | No Score Yet | Holiday Hell | Narrator | - | 2019 |
100% | 90% | What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Deep Space Nine | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Question (Voice) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom | King Abdul (Voice) | - | 2017 |
64% | 42% | Suburban Gothic | Dr. Carpenter (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Penny Dreadful | Brady (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising | Ratchet (Voice) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who is the Question? | Self | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 78% | Motivational Growth | The Mold (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 58% | Favor | Tad Harrison (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 8% | Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation | Harold Tovar (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 21% | Elf-Man | Mickey (Character) | - | 2012 |
59% | 36% | Would You Rather | Shepard Lambrick (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 42% | The Witches of Oz | Frank (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Urgency | Sumner (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 29% | American Bandits: Frank and Jesse James | Ed Bass (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dunwich Horror | Wilbur (Character) | - | 2009 |
40% | 20% | Dark House | Walston (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fast Track | Sumner (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Parasomnia | Detective Garrett (Character) | - | 2008 |
80% | 28% | The Wizard of Gore | The Geek (Character) | - | 2007 |
43% | 20% | Return to House on Haunted Hill | Dr. Vannacutt (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Brutal | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 18% | Satanic | Detective Joyner (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 19% | Blackwater Valley Exorcism | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 18% | Voodoo Moon | Frank Taggert (Character) | - | 2005 |
47% | 46% | Edmond | Desk Clerk (Character) | $131.6K | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Aliens Gone Wild! | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 15% | All Souls Day | Thomas White (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 23% | Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy | Dr. Preston King (Character) | - | 2005 |
55% | 39% | Beyond Re-Animator | Herbert West (Character) | - | 2003 |
3% | 18% | FeardotCom | Sykes (Character) | $13.2M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Faust: Love of the Damned | Lt. Dan Margolies (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Attic Expeditions | Dr. Ek (Character) | - | 2001 |
31% | 42% | House on Haunted Hill | Dr. Richard Benjamin Vannacutt (Character) | $40.8M | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Spoiler | Captain (Character) | - | 1998 |
0% | 55% | Caught Up | Security Guard (Character) | $6.7M | 1998 |
7% | 29% | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | Mr. Brooks (Character) | $40M | 1998 |
64% | 71% | The Frighteners | Milton Dammers (Character) | $16.5M | 1996 |
60% | 42% | Norma Jean & Marilyn | Montgomery Clift (Character) | - | 1996 |
57% | 44% | Castle Freak | John Reilly (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Digital Prophet | Andy Coberman (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Dillinger and Capone | gilroy (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Felony | Bill Knight (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cyberstalker | Andy Coberman (Character) | - | 1995 |
20% | 13% | Lurking Fear | Dr. Haggis (Character) | - | 1994 |
83% | 70% | Love and a .45 | Dinosaur Bob (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Necronomicon | H.P. Lovecraft (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 35% | The Guyver | Doctor East (Character) | - | 1992 |
38% | 40% | Fortress | D-Day (Character) | $6.5M | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Falls | Lonnie Hawks (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 34% | Doctor Mordrid | Dr. Mordrid (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 24% | Trancers II | Dr. Pyle (Character) | - | 1991 |
56% | 40% | The Pit and the Pendulum | Francisco (Character) | - | 1991 |
37% | 45% | Bride of Re-Animator | Dr. Herbert West (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Cellar Dweller | Colin Childress (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | 16% | Cyclone | Rick Davenport (Character) | $41.2K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 33% | The Phantom Empire | Andrew Paris (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Dead Man Walking | Chaz (Character) | - | 1987 |
76% | 70% | From Beyond | Crawford Tillinghast (Character) | $946.8K | 1986 |
93% | 82% | Re-Animator | Herbert West (Character) | $2M | 1985 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 76% | Creepshow | Unknown (Character) | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs | Unknown (Character) | 2018-2019 |
77% | 66% | Gotham | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Transformers Prime | Ratchet (Voice) | 2010-2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Witches of Oz | Frank (Character) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated | H.P. Hatecraft (Guest Voice) | 2010-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
63% | 89% | Masters of Horror | Unknown (Character) | 2007 |
57% | 78% | Star Trek: Enterprise | Shran (Guest Star) | 2001-2005 |
No Score Yet | 85% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Dr. Dale Sterling (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Twilight Zone | Unknown (Character) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | William Shatner's Full Moon Fright Night | Unknown (Character) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Martial Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
76% | 75% | Star Trek: Voyager | Penk (Guest Star) | 2000 |
91% | 87% | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
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1994-1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perversions of Science | Unknown (Character) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 93% | Babylon 5 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | James Wilkens (Guest Star) | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake and the Fatman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Beauty and the Beast | Python (Guest Star) | 1987 |
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