Nicholas Worth

A big, beefy and imposing hulk of a man, Worth was often cast as extremely nasty and intimidating villains. Character actor Nicholas Worth was born on September 4, 1937 in St. Louis, Missouri. After earning a bachelor's in fine arts from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, he served for three years as an Army paratrooper stationed in Kentucky. After leaving the service in 1965, he moved to Los Angeles, studied at the Pasadena Playhouse and appeared in local stage productions. Worth made his film debut in For Pete's Sake! (1966). He then had small parts in such movies as Scream Blacula Scream (1973), The Terminal Man (1974), Coma (1978) and The Glove (1979) making an especially funny appearance in the latter as a gay blank check dropper rugged bounty hunter John Saxon tosses into a pool. Worth gave a wonderfully wild, intense and inspired performance as a deranged, impotent, misogynistic Vietnam veteran porno photographer who brutally strangles lovely young ladies in the splendidly sl