Initially benumbing audiences with his unreasonable-eyed portrayal of psychotic Dr. Herbert West in the beyond-the-trim 1985 splatter-comedy Re-Animator, actor Jeffrey Combs made a tag for himself in films based on the works of great animus author H.P. Lovecraft and such Top Trek spin-offs as Star Trek: Deep Rank Nine and Plan. Born in Oxnard, CA, in 1954, Combs was raised in neighbourhood Lompoc. After graduating from sharp first in 1972, he entered the exactly of acting by attending ... numerous theatrical schools and performing in repertory theater. Frequently appearing in such venues as the Emblem Taper Forum and South Coast Repertory, Combs made his film inauguration in Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981), which was followed nigh supporting roles in Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), Frightmare (1983), and The Man With Two Brains (1983).

Still performing oftentimes on-stage during this period, Combs was approached by a unfledged head named Stuart Gordon and asked if he would be interested in appearing in an adjustment of a Lovecraft chronicle. Attracted past the etched script, the actor agreed. Released in 1985, Re-Animator shocked and carsick audiences into ungoverned laughing with its atrocious twist and visionary set pieces. Combs' manic portrayal of a silly doctor who claims to arrange discovered the timbre to immortality instantaneously earned him a set out in the lexicon of horror account as one of the crucial screen psychos.

Afterwards re-teaming with Gordon for furthermore another Lovecraft adaptation, From Beyond (1986) proved to be a disappointment when it was released in a truncated procedure. Qualified that the surplus of Re-Animator would be fastidious, if not unworkable, to top, Combs and Gordon remained undaunted, collaborating on such efforts as Cat's-paw Jox and The Pit and the Pendulum (both 1990). Released that done year and directed by means of Gordon-cohort Brian Yuzna, Bride of Re-Animator didn't quite living up to fan expectations, although ultimately proved to be an comic development by remaining steady to the style and gratification to its predecessor. Afterwards working with such horror stylists as Fred Olen Ray (The Phantasm Empire [1986] and Cyclone [1987]) and Full Moon's Charles Band (Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth [1991] and the Dr. Strange-influenced Doctor Mordrid [1992]), Combs continued to build a dedicated cult following who remained eager to aid what the quirky actor would go next. Continuing to appear in Lovecraft-based films, he also branched ended with a role as a hitman in Passion and a .45 (1994) and as actor Montgomery Clift in the made-for-TV Norma Jean and Marilyn (1996). A seemingly natural teaming with New Zealand splatter-king Peter Jackson also resulted in a amusing turn as an unstable FBI power in The Frighteners (1996). Combs' career took an unexpected turn later that year. Having previously lost the role of Commander William Ryker in Heroine Trek: The Next Generation to Jonathan Frakes, he returned to the Star Trek gather when Frakes (as headman) appoint him as Weyoun in an episode of Deep Space Nine. Returning in miscellaneous capacities later, Combs would become the prime actor to play three different characters in a single flavour of any Star Trek series. His celebrity in the franchise growing, he was later performers in a recurring role in the subsequent Zip series.

Simultaneously continuing to plain in such features as I Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), Race on Haunted Hill (1999), and Yuzna's long awaited Faust: Love of the Damned (2001, channeling Bruce Campbell), Combs fans were thrilled to approve of that he would be returning to the role of Herbert West in Beyond Re-Animator (again helmed by Yuzna) in current 2003.