Carel Struycken

Carel Struycken was born on Jul 30, 1948 in Netherlands. Carel Struycken's big-screen debut came with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band directed by Michael Schultz in 1978, strarring The Brute. Carel Struycken is known for Doctor Sleep directed by Mike Flanagan, Ewan McGregor stars as Dan Torrance and Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat. The upcoming new movie Carel Struycken plays is Doctor Sleep which will be released on Nov 08, 2019.

Carel Struycken was born in the Hague, The Netherlands. When he was four years old his family moved to Curacao, an island in the Caribbean. At age sixteen, he returned to his home country, where he finished high school. He graduated from the directing program at the film school in Amsterdam, following which he did a year at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.After school, he collaborated on a number of projects of writer/director Rene Daalder. He was "discovered" as an actor at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles by a lady who had abandoned her car in the middle of the street, calling after him, "We need you for a movie!". The movie was Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978). The turning point in his acting career however was L'Aventure des Ewoks - La Bataille pour Endor (1985), a George Lucas film. In addition to cinema, he has also appeared on television, notably as the recurring character, valet Mr. Homn, on Star Trek: La nouvelle génération (1987).Carel has also helped in hardware and software development of virtual reality systems.