It was recommended that I do a post on Brian Thompson. My first thought was that he was the gay guy from Second City TV, but that's Scott Thompson. I never heard of Brian, so I looked him up.
Ok, he doesn't have much appeal in the face department. If he approached me at the Faultline on a Saturday night, I'd give him major Attitude.
But he had quite a physique back in the day, if his head wasn't photoshopped onto this body.
Born in 1959, so about a year older than me, he grew up in Washington and got his MFA in Theater from UC Irvine. He originally wanted to go into musical theater, but his physique and rather...um...craggy features got him typecast as thugs and gangbangers, occasionally upgraded to action-adventure villains:
"Street Punk" in The Terminator (1984)
"The Night Slasher" in Cobra (1986)
"Thug" in Three Amigos (1986)
"Second Thug" in Three Fugitives (1989)
This photo is from the Muppet Wiki, but Brian didn't play a comedic thug in any Muppet movie. He played Hercules, a non-villain, in the tv miniseries Jason and the Argonauts (2000).
He also played several Klingons and Romulans on various iterations of Star Trek.
And lots of beserkers and baddies, on episodes of The X Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Birds of Prey, Californication, Hawaii Five-O, and The Orville.
Action-adventure stars usually turn to comedy as the age, but Brian seems to have turned to various authority figures, with a little country-western thrown in. In Big Muddy (2018), he reconcilles with his estranged brother while sailing down the Big Muddy River.
Plus, in the upcoming Tragedy of Macbeth (2021), he plays Young Murderer. I wonder who plays Old Murderer.
No gay roles in Brian's career, that I could find. Action-adventure movies tend to be entirely gay free. But what about in real life?
Hard to say. Attempts to search for "Brian Thompson" and "gay" yield a gay Brian Thompsosn who is a financial planner, another who belongs to the ACLU Wisconsin Board of Directors, and a third who is awaiting the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage in a New York Times article from 2015.
Brian the actor's wikipedia page doesn't mention a partner, but it mentions two daughters, along with his interest in paddle surfing, windsurfing, and kite surfing.
If he is gay, he might have trouble meeting guys. Unless he takes his shirt off at the Faultline just before last call.