Did you know Dwight.....
 
 
... made up all of his murdock t-shirt designs by himself
... does not have a pilot license but did have lessons in a fixed wing.
... loves Dutch peanut butter
... kissed Johnathan Frakes while the man was doing a Q&A. Jonathan had just said he liked Dwight so much. Dwight heard it , ran on stage and kissed Jonathan....who was kind of 'surprised' (don't ask us who told us this hahaha)
... is the proud owner of a set of Klipsch speakers
... will at Christmastime wish people a Merry Christmas and will use no other words to do so!
... stood in line once for 3 hours at the cinema so he could watch the movie the Godfather
... in retrospect hated his beard
... stuffed and cooked a duck with Dirk and that it was pretty tasty.
... didn’t think Dirk’s decission to get into the big brother house was a very good idea
... thinks his own personality is close to that of Barclay but wished he could be Murdock everyday.
... thinks he is a bit nerdy
... wished he would be Sean Connery if he had to be somebody else (that man always looks and sounds good no matter what age he is)
... can be easily persuaded to speak English with a Dutch accent
... speaks a few words Dutch and knows how to use them very well
... ate a salted Haring in the Netherlands in 1984
... wants to do a stand up comedian show with Dirk, he would sing and Dirk would play the piano
... knows how to crash the harddisc of one single laptop several times
... had two identical Murdock jackets in the series, the back of the jackets were handpainted by an artist. He donated one of his pilot jackets to the special forces museum at Fort Bragg in North Carolina
... milked a cow in the A-team episode Blood Sweat and Cheers, but the cow had an infection and didn’t give milk but something else
... made up a text for his next t-shirt about that cow for the next episode, but he later on decided not to use it.
... teased George Peppard cause George always teased people, Dwight sprayed him with water but George didn’t like it
... could usually be found in Dirks trailer on the A-team set
... had a conversation with a cockroach on stage during a Q&A (don’t ask us why)
... owns a pair of red wooden shoes and a plain pair
... still hates the fact that olestra was banned
... loves to wear sneakers
... has seen a buttpainter at work in New York
... survived the blue jet debacle and has the ticket to prove it
... has two different types of action figures, Barclay and Murdock
... can talk to invisible dogs when he feels like it
... loves to play videogames, but he has problems playing them together with other people
... has his own family therapist that is available to him 24/7
... prefers to read fiction to non fiction
... has had fixed wing lessons but never flew solo cause his wife was afraid he would crash
... gave Barclay a higher pitched voice to make Barclay sound more nerdy and vulnerable
... stammered when playing Barclay
... does not mind (unlike Dirk) to dress up as a woman
... looks good in women clothing according to Dirk
... is a very good voice actor
... thinks a dachsen is a very strange looking dog and that cows are boring
... would love to play a guestrole in the tv-series 'House'
... would love to play a death scene on the silverscreen where he would be murdered and would die a horrible death
... explained to a journalist: people can earn millions like Hasselhoff, but what good are those millions if you are addicted to alcohol or drugs and your marriage is in crises? All I want to say is fame and good looks aren't everything. Only hapiness will stay forever (Dwight himself is happily married since 1983): I'm botox free and I have no staples behind my ears.
... usually plays the game medal of honor on his playstation
... says that the A-team was one of the best things that ever happened to his life
... loves to play people with mental disturbances cause he thinks they are always indicative of the best characters to play.
... says that the funniest thing that ever happened to him while filming a star trek episode was when Jonathan Frakes grabbed his inner thigh during a close-up. Dwight: My expression was quite extraordinary. It took me quite a long time to regain my composure.
... says that playing the roles of too many daddies...doctors...and lawyers make him dull.
... when he introduced himself for the first time to George Peppard was very surprised about the fact that Peppard shook his hand and replied with the words: Hi my name is George Peppard and I am not a very nice man.
... said that Mr T's stunt double was a lasso expert to a point he was so quick he could hide a lasso up his sleeve and still get you - which he did to Dwight at least twenty times. He'd wait for Dwight to walk past him and then catch his ankle so he'd fall to the floor!
... said a lot of Murdock was improvised and that the people in charge hated a lot of what he did but always kept it in.
... made up the impression of the chicken in Black Rock by himself, that got him in trouble again, but they still kept it in.
... made up the idea of being pulled off camera by the invisible dog Billy in West Coast Turnaround but that 'the people in charge' didn't like it. But again, they kept it in.
... explained that the explosion at the end of Deadly Maneouvers when Hannibal lights the cigarette and the scene freezes on the big explosion in the background. That scene was shot very close to the house where Dwight lived at the time, you could hear the explosion inside.
... said that the writers after a while started to write funny behaviour of Murdock too but according to Dwight they didn't get the humor for the character at all, so he said: forget it I'm not going to do that, he kept improvising and didn't use their stuff until later in the series when they improved.
... said the first two seasons he made up all the crazy Murdock stuff. But by season three/four, the writers wrote a lot of Murdock's character by just observing him and seeing his impressions off camera (it was them seeing Dwight mimic Sean Connery that got them making Dwight into Logan Ross)
... was a bit scared of mrT cause he was rehearsing his wrestling moves on Dwight and Dirk. Dirk said: one of these days he is really going to hurt himself or one of us and than we all look like fools.
... responded to the weird question: 'when you die are you going to be buried , cremated or have your body parts sold for medical research': 'No, no, my body parts will be auctioned off on Ebay!' (ask a silly question than you get a silly answer)
... said that Melinda Culea was in tears when she found out Tim Dunnigan was fired
... experiences problems with his last name in America cause his last name is German and people have problems pronouncing it. They keep pronouncing it as Schullz. Sometimes they even have problems with his first name. Some people keep calling him Dwayne...Alright he said at some point: my name is Dwayne Schwartz! Dwight is tired of telling people its Schul-tz not Shulllllllz, and now sometimes introduces himself as Schwarz just to save time. (now don't tease him with that name at a convention, we don't want to scar the man's psyche)
... made up the invisible dog Billy, Billy appeared during an improv during the shooting of the pilot episode
... joked in an interview about the movie Galaxy Quest:: 'A good sci-fi script must rely to some extent, on me. That's my personal position, anyway. I didn't recieve a single phone call during the entire film schedule of 'Galaxy Quest'. If they had only bothered to call me I could have saved this film from disaster status, merely with the opportune raising of an eyebrow, the turn of a head, or from sheer pressence
... said about his first appearance on star trek: Because I knew Brent (Spiner), Jonathan (Frakes) and Whoopi (Goldberg), there was a great deal of affection on the set," he recalls. It wasn't like the typical guest-star appearence, which can sometimes be an uncomfortable experience. This was extraordinarily easy for me because of all the familiar faces. In fact, some of the crew had also worked on The A-Team
... once joked: I'm involved in eternal unemployment
... thinks the producers of the A-team liked "the turbulence" of working with Peppard. "Conflict is the source of the best things you do in life," Dwight said.
... explained that Chuck Tamboro was the guy who flew the helicopters in the A-team and can be credited for the helicopter stuntwork
... after the episode Trouble on Wheels received a phonecall from Marlon Brando who told him that he loved Dwights impression (crazy Willy) of the Godfather and Dwight was completely surprised by this.
... probably based the name 'Crazy Willy' on his own name William and the invisble dog Billy probably also was based on his own name.
... Dwight favo episode of Star Trek that he played in was The Nth Degree. Dwight: Reg becomes the smartest being who ever lived. I loved the holodeck scene with all the lasers. Even though the lasers shining on my head were hot.
... only showed up late on the set of the A-team once. It was while shooting the episode Bounty because he was producing the play 'Mary Rose' at the same time and he had to work on that till early hours in the morning.
... spends each day 8 to 10 hours a day in his car mostly because of the terrible trafficjams in L.A.
... lost his blue baseball hat when he arrived on Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in 1984 when he visited the Netherlands. It was so crowded with fans who came to greet him and T and Dirk, that the hat was lost in the crowd.
... loves music his favorite classical music composers are Prokofiev and Elgar
... loves listening to Jazz, he likes Miles Davis and John Coltrane for instance and one of his favorite jazz bands is the Dutch Swing College Band
... enjoys playing vinyl records, symphonies for instance, cause vinly sounds so good.
... his wife doesn't share his love for symphonies so he has to listen to those by himself.
... enjoys watching the televisionseries: House, The Sopranos and '24'
... loves playing Mung Daal on Chowder. He stated: it's been really fun so far. The voice acting is magnificent in the show, and I love watching episodes
... based the character Murdock on a garage attendant who he came accross in Beaumont, Texas. He wore a little blue hat and followed Dwight everywhere, making peculiar motions. He even stood next to Dwight while he used the man's phone.
... will never forget his audition for the A-team. Dwight: I walked into a room and saw about 25 executives sitting around a desk. I'm very bad at auditions but this was one of the worst. There wasn't a laugh. so I was sent out with the director Rod Holcomb, who worked with me for a while. When I returned for some reason, my performance was funnier, and everyone was rolling around the floor. I don't know what I did differently but it worked!
... gave his invisible dog Billy to the people in the Netherlands during the visit of the A-team to the Netherlands in 1984
... according to Dirk was a bit out of character while playing with his wife in the episode Bounty. Murdock wasn't behaving as he usually did in the series according to Dirk.
... his first thought was when he got the part in the A-team: now I can be together with Wendy! At that time they weren't married yet and Dwight was still living at the east coast and Wendy was already at the west coast. Dwight was thrilled, because of the fact he got the part in the A-team he now could live at the west coast as well and would be closer to her.
... signs a lot of autographs himself but would love to have an autograph from Anthony Hopkins. He does have an autograph from Laurence Olivier that he really is happy with.
... actually only recorded about one episode of star trek a year.
... said: the effects of the laser beam (Nth Degree) hitting Barclay's head were done live. The use of lasers and mirrors in the scene allowed for camera movement.
... explained: the original draft of the script (Genesis) was going to ultimately turn the entire crew into identical copies of Barclay but that idea was deemed too extreme. Also this episode was in production when the devastating 1994 earthquake hit Northridge California, causing 2 days delay in filming.
... loves animals but isn't a good horse back rider, Dwight joked: I knew I couldn't be a star in Hollywood cause I couldn't ride a horse, I hated horses, my ass was bloody.
... was called the skinny fellow on the A-team by many bad guys, but was actually chubby as a child, at the age of 13 he weight 235 pounds, Dwight realized he loved girls more than food and that's when he decided to start to loose weight. And we have all been able to see that he succeeded.
... is not (like Dirk) a regular cigar smoker, Dwight usually starts to feel a bit sick after only smoking one.