RoboCop teaching Roman History

[Andrew]

Maybe Peter Weller is more like Buckaroo Banzai:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/posts.html

[trekgeezer]

I had read about him working on his PhD a while back.

You know the actor Avery Brooks (Hawk on Spencer for Hire in the 80's and Captain Sisko on DS9) is a tenured professor of fine arts at Rutgers.

Know of any other educated actors?

[raj]

I really enjoyed the Engineering an Empire series, though I though Buckaroo, er, Peter was under used.

Jodie Foster did graduate from Yale & Brooke Shields from Princeton, so I'd put them a notch above the typical Hollywood actor.

[Pilgermann]

Weller is a jazz trumpet player, too.

[Doc Daneeka]

Know of any other educated actors?

Doesn't Jill St. John have an IQ of like 180? (doesn't quite fit her character in DAF, Eh?)

[Yaddo 42]

I had seen him on the Rome: Engineering an Empire show on the History Channel. Haven't seen the series, no cable, and wasn't aware of his continued involvement. Guess he has a good presence on camera as an experienced performer as well as the academic credentials now. Glad to know he's still acting as well, the last thing I remember him in was as the captain in that TV remake of The Posiedon Adventure.

Knew about his jazz horn playing, he and Jeff Goldblum were in a combo together.

Other higher educated perfomers, off the top of of my head: Billy Connolly's wife Pamela Stephenson has a doctorate in clincial psychology, is an adjunct professor at the California Graduate Institute where she got her docorate from, and is also in private practice.