Eric Roberts? He's Julia's older brother, and he looks exactly like
THIS.
Early in his career, when
BTW he was getting much critical acclaim, he starred in
The Pope of Greenwich Village, Star 80, King of the Gypsies, The Coca-Cola Kid and
Ruanaway Train, the last of those netting him an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor (the year Don Ameche won for
Cocoon). He had a tendency to go way over-the-top ("They took my thumbs, Charlie!!!"), but if you like that kind of stylized performance he was a good young up-and-comer. However, right after his Oscar nomination he took one crap role after another, in real junk like
Best of the Best, The Specialist and
Final Analysis. By the early '90s he was relegated to straight-to-video and made-for-cable TV genre crud almost exclusively.
I don't know what forgettable bad movie you may have seen him in while flipping around cable. A few years ago he was in a TNT supernatural Western called
Puragatory that was a better idea on paper than it was an actual movie. Turner ran that thing every other weekend for about two years, maybe you saw that?
He did make one film in the '90s that I'm a big fan of:
La Cucaracha. It's a no-budget
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia for the new millenium. Great rental some night if you can track it down.
But in general he's a lost cause, career-wise. He pretty much pissed it all away for whatever reason. Now he wouldn't know what to do with a good script if he got one, and certainly nobody is going to give him one. He works all the time, but it's all ambitionless crap.