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Robert Rusler (born 20 September 1965; age 58) is the actor who played Orgoth in the Star Trek: Enterprise third season episode "Anomaly (ENT)".

Rusler is probably best known for his supporting roles in Weird Science (1985, with Michael Berryman, Wallace Langham, and Joe Gieb) and in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985, with Chris Doyle) as well as for his role as fighter pilot Lt. Warren Keffer during the second season of J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5 (1994-1995, with regulars Andreas Katsulas, Mary Kay Adams, and Bill Mumy).

Early in his career, Rusler guest starred in The Facts of Life (1985) and appeared in Dangerously Close (1986, with Anthony De Longis and Rosalind Allen), Vamp (1986, with Julius LeFlore), the drama Trashin' (1986), the television romance Tonight's the Night (1987, with Jack Blessing, Gerrit Graham, and Hélène Udy), and Shag (1989) before he was cast in a lead role as Tim Shepard in The Outsiders (1990).

Further acting work include Sometimes They Come Back (1991, with Chris Demetral and Tasia Valenza), the action drama Crisis in the Kremlin (1992, with Theodore Bikel and Doug Wert), Final Embrace (1992, with Howard Shangraw), Amityville: A New Generation (1993, with Julia Nickson, Jack R. Orend, Terry O'Quinn, Tom Wright, and Jon Steuer), The Substitute (1996, with Raymond Cruz and Cliff DeYoung), the television movie The Underworld (1997, with Chris Sarandon), and the drama Wasted in Babylon (1999, with Reiner Schöne) as well as guest roles in episodes of Angel Falls (1993), Murder, She Wrote (1995, with Jay Underwood and Biff Yeager), Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1998), Snoops (1999, with Kim Robert Koscki), and Robbery Homicide Division (2002, with Bill Smitrovich).

In 1996, Rusler worked on Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom along with Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, Jeremy Roberts, Richard Riehle, Michael Cavanaugh, and Charles Esten.

Following his appearance on Star Trek, he guest starred in episodes of Dragnet (2003, with Charles Esten, Saul Rubinek, and Barry Gordon), Cold Case (2004, with Spencer Daniels and Sam Witwer), NCIS (2004, directed by James Whitmore, Jr.), 24 (2006, with Gregory Itzin, Roger Cross, Jude Ciccolella, Glenn Morshower, Mark Sheppard, and Mark Wagner), The Closer (2007, with Raymond Cruz, Gina Ravarra, Mina Badie, Jonathan Del Arco, and Scott Klace), The Unit (2007, with Abby Brammell, Michael Harney, Scott Workman, and Massi Furlan), Medium (2008, with Steven Culp and Erich Anderson), and Bones (2012).

He worked on The Whole Ten Yards (2004, with Frank Collison, Carl Ciarfalio, Buck McDancer, and Amy Pietz), Air Strike (2004), Rebound (2005, with Dennis Cockrum, Beau Billingslea, Jason Matthew Smith, and Matt McCoy), Surveillance (2006), the drama Shifted (2006, with Chic Daniel and Buddy Daniels Friedman), The Hunt (2006, with Cliff DeYoung), Forfeit (2007, with Billy Burke and Gregory Itzin), and the thriller Agenda (2007, with James Black).

After Rusler worked as associate producer on Shifted and co-producer on Agenda, he wrote, produced, and directed the short horror film Black Asylum in 2013. Clayton Rohner appeared in this film and Jay Montalvo produced.

More recently, he appeared in episodes of General Hospital (2014 and 2015, with Gina Hecht), Ray Donovan (2015, with Paula Malcomson), and Murder in the First (2016, with Raphael Sbarge and Tom Wright) and filmed Tales of Halloween (2015, with Adrienne Barbeau and Greg Grunberg), the horror film Blood Feast (2016), the television movie The Wedding Do Over (2016, with Caroline Lagerfelt and Christopher Carroll), the thriller The Unwilling (2017, with Dina Meyer), and the action film Atone (2017).

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