Carel Struycken

Carel Struycken is one of cinema's great unsung faces, and at well over seven feet tall he was born to play unforgettable oddities. The Dutch actor will forever be Lurch to me from the Addams Family films, that deadpan butler with the perfect 'You rang?' delivery. But his work with David Lynch as the Giant in Twin Peaks is something else entirely, eerie and otherworldly in a way few performers could pull off. Add Mr. Homn on Star Trek: The Next Generation and you have a career built on memorable presence over dialogue. He's also a serious photographer, which I find quietly fitting.

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Name (English)

Carel Struycken

Name (Japanese)

カレル・ストルイケン

Reading

かれる・すとるいけん

Born

July 30, 1948 (age 78)

Origin

The Hague, Netherlands

Occupation

actor / composer / photographer / stage actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rat

• Official sitehttps://www.carelstruycken.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel%20Struycken
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q496503

Tags

• actor
• composer
• photographer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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