Earl Bowen, who voiced Lechuck in "The Curse of Monkey Island" and appeared in numerous other games, TV shows, and movies, has died.

According to the MobyGames (opens in new tab) page, Bowen's first video game credit was for the 1995 adventure "Shannara". Over the next decade, he appeared in games such as "Zork: Grand Inquisitor," "Return to Krondor," "Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force," "Soldier of Fortune," "Metal Gear Solid 2," Fallout Tactics, Icewind Dale 2, Call of Duty, Psychonauts, and World of Warcraft.

His best-known video game role is the villainous undead pirate captain Lechuck, first played in 1997's "The Curse of Monkey Island" (also the first fully voiced entry in the series). His last appearance in the series was in Telltale's Tales of Monkey Island, released in 2009, and he was asked to reprise the role in last year's Return to Monkey Island, but turned it down because he was "retired and getting old," said Monkey Island creator Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert told Adventure Gamers (opens in new tab).

Bowen also appeared in numerous television shows and movies (opens in new tab) beginning in the mid-1970s. He never became a big star, but he is easily recognizable, especially to action movie fans, for his role as the particularly useless psychologist Dr. Silverman in the "Terminator" films. It was a small role, but he nailed it: borderline incompetent, easily hated, and somehow able to retreat repeatedly to dodge bullets throughout all three films of the original "Terminator" trilogy.

A few years later, he played a very different type of shifty psychologist in the slapstick comedy "The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" (opens in new tab).

The cause of his death has not been disclosed, but Variety (opens in new tab) reports that Bowen was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in the fall of 2022. He was 81 years old.