Terry Kiser

There is a beautiful irony in Terry Kiser's career. A serious stage actor from Omaha, Kansas-trained and a Theatre World Award winner, with more than 140 credits over fifty years, yet the whole world remembers him best as a corpse. Playing the dead Bernie Lomax in Weekend at Bernie's is a strange kind of immortality, but a real one. I have a soft spot for character actors like him, the dependable faces who hold scenes together for decades while the stars come and go. To turn one absurd role into something genuinely timeless takes more craft than it gets credit for.

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Name (English)

Terry Kiser

Name (Japanese)

テリー・カイザー

Reading

てりー・かいざー

Born

August 1, 1939 (age 87)

Origin

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Occupation

film actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

High school

Westside High School

University

University of Kansas

Awards & achievements

• 1967 Theatre World Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Kiser
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128541

Tags

• Nebraska
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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