Maxwell Caulfield (born on November 23, 1959) is a Scottish-American actor, known for his roles in film, television and on stage.
Caulfield was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His American stepfather, a Marine instructor at Parris Island, kicked him out of the house at the age of 15. At 18 he moved to the U.S., and got his green card.
Caulfield made his acting debut off-Broadway in 1981 in the title role of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane as a drifter.
He made his Broadway debut in J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls opposite Sian Phillips. He also played opposite Jessica Tandy in Salonika. Caulfield is currently performing in the Charles Busch play Our Leading Lady, opposite Kate Mulgrew.
His first major movie role was as the geek turned hunk, Michael Carrington, in the musical film Grease 2 (1982) opposite Michelle Pfeiffer.
Caulfield's other appearances include:
Caulfield has also done voiceover work; he voiced the character of Alistair Smythe in Spider-Man: The Animated Series from
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The Real Blonde is a 1997 movie directed and written by Tom DiCillo. It stars Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, and Maxwell Caulfield. The film is a satire on New York's fashion and entertainment industries.
Joe is an aspiring actor working as bus boys in a high-class restaurant. His long-term girlfriend Mary works as a cosmetician for the fashion industry and largely supports him with her steady income. Joe is more concerned with expressing himself than getting a paying job, and has been unwilling to accept roles that do not live up to his artistic standard. Mary supports Joe, but urges him to accept any role to get his foot in the door. Meanwhile, his co-worker Bob lands a lucrative role on a soap opera. Bob is a classically trained actor, but is willing to overlook the quality of the material for the money. He also has a fetish for natural blonde women, leading him to date Sahara, a naive model, and then dump her after discovering that her hair is dyed.
Joe swallows his artistic...
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Empire Records is a 1995 comedy-drama about a group of record store employees. The film was directed by Allan Moyle and stars Anthony LaPaglia, Liv Tyler, Renee Zellweger, and Rory Cochrane.Tagline:Open til Midnight.The events of the film take place within a single day. Empire Records, an independently owned record shop, is about to be sold to the Music Town corporation by its owner to become another run-of-the-mill chain store. Lucas (played by Rory Cochrane) attempts to save the day by taking a gamble with the store's sales proceeds, but ends up making things worse when he loses it all. Rex Manning (Maxwell Caulfield), an arrogant singer, shows up for an in-store promotional appearance that day, and a local teenager (Brendan Sexton III) attempts to steal merchandise. The employees, who see Empire as a second home and their coworkers as something of a second family, are also experiencing difficulties in their personal lives and relationships with one another. Upon learning of the...,
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The Boys Next Door is a 1985 relatively unknown independent movie, about two young men Bo played by Charlie Sheen and Roy played by Maxwell Caulfield, on the verge of adult life, whose bleak futures project them on a grim and violent adventure, before the mundane reality of working in a dead-end factory becomes as far as they are allowed to live the American dream. Angry, bitter and with no hope for their future, they embark on a frightening and disturbing orgy of sex, drink, violence and murder. The movie shows the dark and sometimes realistic facts of a mostly unknown America, which when you're young, angry, and see no future, anyone is susceptible to losing all fear of consequence, and the terrifying possibility that the boy next door just might be the next serial killer ready to explode.The Boys Next Door is a dark drama/adventure that will make you think twice about who lives in the house across or down your street.Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation...
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Grease 2 is the 1982 sequel to 1978's smash hit movie Grease. Though a box-office flop on its initial release, in recent years it has surfaced on cable TV channels such as ABC Family and VH1, which has shown it on their show Movies That Rock, and has attained a cult following.
The movie starts in the fall of 1961 (two years after the original) with a new group of students who are members of both the T-Birds, headed by Johnny Nogerelli (Adrian Zmed), and the Pink Ladies, headed by Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer). Stephanie broke up with Johnny during the summer, and she tells the Pink Ladies that she wants to be more than "someone's chick."
Meanwhile, Michael (Maxwell Caulfield), an exchange student from England and the cousin of Grease's Sandy Olsson, arrives. He is greeted by Frenchy (Didi Conn), who has returned to Rydell High after previously dropping out. Michael quickly becomes infatuated with Stephanie, but Frenchy warns him that Pink Ladies can only date T-Birds. However,...,
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Maxwell Caulfield was born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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