Mark Metcalf

Mark Metcalf is an American actor born in Findley, Ohio on March 11th, 1946. He is best known for playing the vampiric foil to Buffy Summers known as The Master in the first season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He appeared in eight episodes of Buffy as well as one episode of the spin-off series Angel. Outside of the makeup however, Metcalf is best known for playing surly drill instructor college student Douglas Neidermeyer in National Lampoon's 1978 comedy classic Animal House. Mark's first role in a horror feature was 1983's The Final Terror.

Notes & Trivia

 * It was Mark Metcalf's idea to design the look of The Master on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an homage to Max Schreck's Graf Orlok in the 1922 silent film classic Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens.