Max played the badly dressed Whistler in Becoming. Max was Johnny Hardin in Maverick, and played James Brodie in Homicide: Life on the Streets. Max was in the movie House on Haunted Hill with James Marsters. The character of Whistler was originally intended to be in the spin-off show Angel (Joss Whedon said at the Posting Board “About Angel, Charisma WILL be joining the cast, that’s officially going into the works. The other regular will be Whistler or a Whistler-type character — that has yet to be cast.”) Max wasn’t able to commit to the series so the character of Doyle was created. Whistler was Angel’s first connection with the Powers That Be.
November 4th, 2005 at 4:59 am
To any of you who liked Max Perlich in Buffy, I strongly recommend to you his performance in “Homicide: Life on the Streets” — along with BtVS, one of this finest programs ever aired on television. And Perlich’s Brodie is a terrific character, serving as a sort of chorus to the truly incredible ensemble cast in that show.