Nicholas Worth


Nicholas Worth was an American character actor who appeared on film, on TV, and in video games.

Career

An imposing, bulky, balding man with a powerful bass voice, Worth specialized in playing menacing, threatening characters. His best-known, most typical roles are Kirk Smith, the tormented necrophiliac serial-killer of attractive young women in the low-budget horror film Don't Answer the Phone, and Ray, a fearsome homosexual rapist in the 1985 TV movie The Rape of Richard Beck.
He began with a low-level TV career, appearing in one episode of Charlie's Angels as a kidnapper-on-skates. Subsequently, he played numerous roles as henchmen and tough guys in films such as Swamp Thing, City Heat, Doin' Time, The Ladies Club, No Way Out, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Action Jackson, ', Darkman, Best of the Best 2, ', Barb Wire and Blood Dolls. He appeared in the beginning of Heartbreak Ridge as a convict who gets beaten up by Clint Eastwood and the same year, he played a Divine-like drag queen who loses his clothes to John Candy in Armed and Dangerous. He continued his TV career, playing small roles in sci-fi programs like ' and ', and in WKRP in Cincinnati, Knight Rider, Hunter, and Night Court and in "Simon and Simon".
He also did video game work, portraying General Marzaq and Premier Romanov in Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer series of games, Sierra's ', ', and also voice-acted as Colonel Bulba/Mr. Jones in Freedom Fighters.

Weightlifting

Worth was an amateur power-lifter and bodybuilder.

Military service

Worth served for three years in the army as a paratrooper.

Religion

Worth was a born-again Christian.

Death

Worth died of heart failure at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys at the age of 69.

Selected filmography