Who Played Me in "The Terminator"? Quiz

Answer: Rick Rossovich

Rossovich, a native of Palo Alto, California, portrayed Matt Buchanan, Ginger's boyfriend. Matt was first seen phoning Sarah and Ginger's apartment. Sarah answered and he started talking dirty to her since he thought she was Ginger. When Sarah told him it was her, Matt asked for Ginger. Sarah went out that night and Matt came over to spend time with Ginger.

The T-180 went to their apartment and nearly grabbed Matt. Matt threw a lamp at him but the T-180 threw him through a window, at a mirror and onto a dresser. Matt wound up dead as a result of his injuries. Rossovich had parts in the films "Tropical Heat", "New Crime City" and "The Morning After".

Answer: Bess Motta

Bess Motta, born in 1958, played the role of Ginger Ventura, Sarah Connor's roommate and a victim of the Terminator. Ginger hated Sarah's pet iguana, Pugsley, and told him at one point she would make a belt out of him. Ginger got upset when Sarah's date for the evening, Dan, called and said he could not make it.

When Matt came over to spend time with her, Ginger got up out of bed and went to make herself a sandwich. When she went back to her bedroom, the Terminator threw Matt through the door. Ginger dropped her sandwich and milk, and proceeded to run, but the Terminator shot her dead. Sarah first heard of Ginger's death when she was taken to the police station after Reese was arrested. Motta was seen in the films "You Talkin To Me?" and "Broken Angel". Motta starred in the TV series "20 Minute Workout".

Answer: Tony Mirelez

Mirelez was cast as the gas station attendant who appeared right before the film ended. Sarah spoke to him in Spanish and asked him for gasoline. He asked her how much so she simply told him to fill her up and he said he would. Sarah's last words to him were "I know" when he told her that a storm was coming. Mirelez's only other acting credit was a role in the 1951 film "My Favorite Spy".

Answer: Linda Hamilton

Linda Hamilton, born on September 26th, 1956 in Salisbury, Maryland, took on the role of Sarah Connor. Connor was a waitress but she did not know until Reese came to protect her that she would play a pivotal role in the future. Reese told her that she was to give birth to John Connor, the man who would win the war against the machines in the future. Reese and Sarah spent much of the movie running from the Terminator. Sarah wound up killing the Terminator when she crushed him with a hydraulic press. Linda Hamilton reprised her role of Sarah Connor in the film's sequel, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day".

She portrayed characters in films like "Dante's Peak", "Mr. Destiny" and "Children of the Corn". Hamilton was also married to the film's director, James Cameron, for a couple of years.

Answer: Anthony Trujillo

Trujillo appeared as the young Mexican boy in close up shots. He took a picture of Sarah and then spoke to her in Spanish. The gas station attendant told Sarah that he said she was very beautiful and he was ashamed to ask for five U.S. dollars for his picture but his father would beat him if he did not. Sarah agreed to pay him four dollars and he accepted.

He thanked her and warned her of an upcoming storm. Trujillo had guest spots on the TV series "Hill Street Blues", "T.J. Hooker" and "Fantasy Island".

He had parts in the films "Almost an Angel" and "Split Decisions".

Answer: Marianne Muellerleile

Muellerleile, born on November 26th, 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, portrayed Sarah Ann Connor in a minor role. The Terminator looked through the phone book for Sarah Connor's address. The first name he saw was Sarah A. Connor (the Sarah he was after was Sarah J. Connor).

He went to her address, knocked on her door and asked if her name was Sarah Connor. She said yes. The Terminator barged into her home and shot her dead. Muellerleile was in the films "The Trouble with Dick", "Going to the Chapel" and "The Road to Welville".

Answer: Dick Miller

Miller, a native of The Bronx, played the clerk at the pawn shop where the T-800 (the Terminator's official name) got his guns. Among the guns he purchased were an autoloader and an Uzi nine millimeter. When the clerk told him he might close early today, the T-800 loaded a bullet into one of his guns and the clerk told him he could not do that but the Terminator shot him dead.

This was the only scene in which we saw Miller's character. Miller played characters in films like "Small Soldiers", "Unlawful Entry" and "Matinee".

Answer: Michael Biehn

Biehn, born in 1956, took on the role of Kyle Reese, a sergeant from the future that John Connor sent back through time to protect Sarah from the Terminator. He first saved Sarah from getting shot at the club called Tech-Noir and then told her, "Come with me if you want to live".

As Kyle and Sarah made their getaway, he hit a car and left the scene. He got caught by the police and was arrested. When the T-800 went on a murder spree at the police station, Kyle escaped with Sarah. At the end of the film, Kyle died after he lit a stick of dynamite and attached it to the Terminator's metal body. Biehn portrayed characters in the movies "The Abyss", "Tombstone" and "The Rock".

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Schwarzenegger, born in 1947 in Austria, was the main antagonist in "The Terminator" since he portrayed the T-800. On his hunt to kill Sarah Connor, he killed two women named Sarah Connor but they were the wrong ones. He first saw Sarah J. Connor at Tech-Noir and almost shot her but Kyle Reese shot him first.

As he hunted down Sarah and Kyle in their car, he wound up in an accident and had to remove his eyeball. When he got to the police station to find Sarah and Reese, he murdered 17 police officers.

Although the T-800 killed Reese, he did not kill Sarah since she crushed him with a hydraulic press. Schwarzenegger starred in the movies "Total Recall", "True Lies" and "Conan the Barbarian". He was elected Governor of California in 2003.

Answer: Bruce M. Kerner

Kerner, born in 1943 in Los Angeles, played the desk sergeant in just one scene from this movie. When the T-800 came into the station to find Sarah Connor, he introduced himself as a friend and asked if he could see her. The sergeant said he could not since she was making a statement.

The Terminator asked where she was so the desk sergeant stated it may take a while so he could wait on a bench. This was when the T-800 issued his trademark line, "I'll be back". He went right outside the station, got into his car, drove the car into the station and killed the sergeant. Kerner's only acting credit was in "The Terminator", but he was a production manager on TV series like "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch", "Haunted" and "The Parkers".