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Chuck Pfarrer

Born April 13, 1957 · New York City, New York, USA (age 69)

Chuck Pfarrer is a screenwriter, novelist and former U.S. Navy SEAL who has occasionally stepped in front of the camera as an actor. His most notable acting role is Douglas Binder in the 1993 action film Hard Target, a movie he also wrote and co-produced. In the film's opening sequence, his character is a homeless combat veteran hunted through the streets of New Orleans by the story's villains.

Known For

The Jackal

The Jackal · 1997

MovieActionCrime

Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.

Hard Target

Hard Target · 1993

MovieActionThriller

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

Darkman

Darkman · 1990

MovieActionScience Fiction

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

Red Planet

Red Planet · 2000

MovieThrillerAction

Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

Barb Wire

Barb Wire · 1996

MovieScience FictionAction

A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood, who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.

Navy Seals

Navy Seals · 1990

MovieActionAdventure

During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discovers that a terrorist group has access to deadly, US-built Stinger missiles and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.

Virus

MovieHorrorAction

When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

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The Jackal

The Jackal · 1997

MovieActionCrime

Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.

Screenplay

Hard Target

Hard Target · 1993

MovieActionThriller

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

Screenplay

Darkman

Darkman · 1990

MovieActionScience Fiction

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

Screenplay

Red Planet

Red Planet · 2000

MovieThrillerAction

Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

Screenplay

Barb Wire

Barb Wire · 1996

MovieScience FictionAction

A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood, who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.

Screenplay

Navy Seals

Navy Seals · 1990

MovieActionAdventure

During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discovers that a terrorist group has access to deadly, US-built Stinger missiles and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.

Writer

Virus

MovieHorrorAction

When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

Screenplay