Bill Oberst Jr is an American actor known for his disturbing onscreen presence often playing dark and conflicted characters on film and television Oberst is a veteran stage actor who came to Hollywood in 2008 and quickly began to be cast in horror and thriller films Notable exceptions were the 2011 Hallmark Channel TVmovie THE SHUNNING and its 2012 sequel THE CONFESSION in which director Michael Landon Jr cast Oberst in the films male lead role of an Amish farmer and an awardwinning turn as General William Tecumseh Sherman in the History Channels docudrama SHERMANS MARCH Oberst has also toured theatrically in a firstperson stage recreation of the teachings of Jesus Of Nazareth and in a string of oneman shows whose subjects included President John F Kennedy Mark Twain and humorist Lewis Grizzard He remains best known as a horror genre actor however Bill Oberst Jrs trademark piercing star and roughhewn face have led him to be cast as monsters murderers vampires and cannibals often in minimal wardrobe His oddly shaped torso and partiallyexposed ribcage are almost as recognizable to genre fans as his face Oberst is often quoted as saying that he believes the human bodys capacity to disturb on film is just as strong as its capacity to entice In 2011 Oberst was seen by over 60 million internet viewers worldwide as the cyber stalker in the Facebook application TAKE THIS LOLLIPOP httpwwwtakethislollipopcom which broke records to become the fastestgrowing application in Facebook history and the most popular horrorthemed application in internet history In person his quiet demeanor and interest in things spiritual seem sharply at odds with the roles he plays A native Southerner Oberst is a fulltime actor living in Los Angeles From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
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