While enrolled at North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas), he played trumpet in one of the campus bands. His family lived in West Germany for several years before eventually moving to Texas, where he attended Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, graduating in 1965. As a result of his father's army work, Weller spent many years abroad during his childhood. Weller had a "middle-class Catholic" upbringing. Weller was born June 24, 1947, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, the son of Dorothy Jean ( née Davidson 1924–2002), a homemaker, and Frederick Bradford Weller (1922–1986), a lawyer, federal judge, and career helicopter pilot for the United States Army. In 2017, Weller appeared on The Last Ship as Dr. From 2012 to 2017, Weller was involved in the A&E (now Netflix) series Longmire both as a director and an actor. He also played Christopher Henderson in the fifth season of 24, Stan Liddy in the fifth season of the Showtime original series Dexter, as well as Charles "Charlie" Barosky in 11 episodes in the sixth season of Kurt Sutter's Sons of Anarchy.
In television, he hosted the program Engineering an Empire on the History Channel from 2005 to 2007.
He has also appeared in such films as Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995), the Oliver Stone-produced The New Age (1994), and David Cronenberg's adaptation of William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch (1991).Īside from a Saturn Award nomination for his RoboCop role, Weller received an Academy Award nomination for his 1993 short Partners, in which he also acted. Weller has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including RoboCop (1987) and its sequel RoboCop 2 (1990) (in which he played the title character), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). Peter Frederick Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor, television director, and art historian.