Earl Boen, best known for his roles in the Terminator movies, passed away yesterday in Hawaii. Alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Boen appeared in three of the Terminator films. According to Variety, the voice and character actor was 81 years old and had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in the fall. Boen was an actor who wasn’t a household name for many, yet he worked consistently in film and television. Boen retired from on-camera work in 2003 but nevertheless continued to do voice-over until he officially retired from all acting work in 2017.
Boen played Dr. Silberman, a criminal psychologist, in The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and in a flashback during the 2019 film, Terminator: Dark Fate. Boen’s impressive filmography also includes notable credits such as 9 to 5, Living in Peril, Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, The Prince, Sioux City, Alien Nation, Touch and Go, Battle Beyond the Stars, To Be or Not to Be, Movers & Shakers, and Walk Like a Man.
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Boen is known for his role as Rev. Lloyd Meechum in the 1980s sitcom Mama’s Family. Boen guest starred on numerous other comedy series such as The Dukes of Hazzard, Soap; It’s a Living, and The Golden Girls. He also made guest appearances on popular crime genre shows, The Streets of San Francisco, Hawaii Five-O, and Police Woman.
The late star is survived by his second wife Cathy, stepdaughter Ruby, and beloved grandchildren Kimmy Abaricia and Kimo Harbin.
Disney Voice Actor Earl Boen Voiced Over 81 Animated Characters
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Voice actor Boen is known for his work as Mr. Bleakman in Clifford the Big Red Dog, Simon Stagg in Justice League, and both the villainous Dr. Regis Blackgaard and his good-hearted thespian twin brother, R. Edwin Blackgaard in Adventures in Odyssey.
Boen worked on over 19 collaborations with Disney, including voicing the dinosaur Rex in the Toy Story video games. In addition, in the Disney animated series Kim Possible and the film Kim Possible: Revenge of the Monkey Fist, Boen voiced Señor Senior, Sr (with Ricardo Montalbán).
During his lengthy career, Boen lent his voice to other well-known video games, such as War of Warcraft and Monkey Island. Earl Boen had a long successful career in Hollywood and will be missed by many. Rest in peace, Earl Boen.
