Career
Orser is primarily a character actor, whose career has included playing a number of deranged, psychotic, and degenerate characters. Orser has appeared in small roles in a wide variety of films and television shows, including Chief of Surgery Doctor Lucien Dubenko on the television show Emergency. Orser made his television debut in 1991 on the show Gabriel"s Fire. His next roles were bit parts and small roles on The Golden Girls, Cheers, Los Angeles Law, The X-Files, New York City Police Department Blue, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation.
In 1999, he played the (rather demanding) main role of Doctor Arthur Zeller in The Outer Limits episode "Descent", a part seemingly tailored by writer Eric Saltzgaber for Orser"s particular talents.
Fans of Married.. with Children know him in his recurring guest role as the cynical director of advertisements. He has had minor roles in many popular films.
He appeared in 1995"s Seven as the man who was involuntarily recruited as the punisher for the lust sin. He was credited as "Crazed Manitoba in Massage Parlour".
He played Larry Purvis in 1997"s Alien: Resurrection.
He played the antagonist Richard Thompson in the 1999 Denzel Washington thriller The Bone Collector. In 2001, he had a small part in the film Pearl Harbor playing an injured man saved by Kate Beckinsale"s character. In 2003, he appeared in the comic-turned-film Daredevil.
He also appeared in Saving Private Ryan as the traumatized pilot of a crashed glider.
He also played a homicidal hologram in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Revulsion". And finally in the franchise"s most recent series Enterprise, he played a low-life in the time-travel episode "Carpenter Street".
He also portrayed Ansel in the drama thriller film Faults. From 2004 to 2009, he played Chief of Surgery Doctor Lucien Dubenko, a recurring character, on the television show Emergency.