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Robert Picardo the werewolf?


I suppose every actor and actress has to start somewhere in the entertainment industry.
Robert Picardo, best known and beloved for playing the doctor on Enterprise: VOYAGER and a cameo supporting role on the superlative Enterprise: FIRST CONTACT (1996), has full head of hair, and inexplicably looks taller in THE HOWLING as the series killer/werewolf, Eddie Quist.
He looks pretty much his latter self in a cameo role as a reporter in the 1983 biographical drama of the ill-fated Playboy Playmate of the Year 1980, Dorothy Stratten, formerly of Vancouver, B.C.

The werewolf character and transformation were among the most realistic and scariest in THE HOWLING. An American Werewolf In London is up there along with Howling. I was truly spooked watching Eddie Quist transform into the werewolf in the lab. The werewolf monster and special effects reached its artistic peak with these movies. The werewolves of earlier movies now look positively funny compared to the true, bipedal hybrid wolf/human monster of THE HOWLING. The werewolves of latter movies appeared to regress in special effects appearance. But a few movies stayed true to the precedent of HOWLING and LONDON, like, BAD MOON. The CGI werewolves of 2005's CURSED are no replacement for the real thing.

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yes he was great

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I know! He is so awesome!

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He was also the alien Wak in "Explorers" - at the beginning of his film career make-up artists liked him because they felt that he knew how to "work" the prothetics

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He was in Gremlins 2 and has good comedy timing too . I never figured
him in the Howling till Voyager . I saw it at the drive in and it
scared the heck out of Me then .

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