Boen appeared as hapless psychologist Dr. Silberman in the first three Terminator movies
, but it was also where Boen—playing the lead member of a crew of pancake makeart director, an amateur filmmaker and model maker named James Cameron. Four years later, Cameron wouldDr Silberman questions Kyle Reese - The Terminator , Dr. Peter Silberman is the face of disbelieving humanity across the first threea vital componentof Cameron’s time-jumping plot.
In Boen’s hands, he’s the perfect human villain for a franchise likely gets his world blown up by badass renegades and unstoppable killing machines. It was a memorable enough role, in fact, that Boen became the only performer besides Arnold Schwarzenegger to appear in all three films, popping up for a brief scene inretiring from screen acting at the age of 62. Instead, he put his energies toward his increasingly prolific voice acting careercartoon in the 1980s.