Audiences on several continents know Robert Crooks as a major actor with a profile very few in the profession ever reach. It has taken 25 years to build the position he now occupies. The film 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' does more for the public profile than the rest of the filmography combined. There is 'Midway' as well. The beginning of the career is the part almost nobody has seen. Action is where most of the work sits.