Horror fans will know him as Super Freddy from A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, while comic fans may remember him as Ben Grimm/The Thing in the unreleased 1994 Fantastic Four film (for which copies leaked and have circulated widely among fans for decades).

He also brought plenty of memorable characters to the small screen, including Belthazor, The Source, a Grimlock, and Shax on Charmed!

Smith’s impressive career spans film and television, with appearances in Men in Black II, The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Malcolm in the Middle, The O.C., Desperate Housewives, and Monster Man. Horror fans will recognize him as Pluto in the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes and Papa Hades in The Hills Have Eyes 2.