who played as predator in the movie
Making the world better, one answer at a time. Kevin Peter Hall, an African American actor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Born May 9, 1955 and passed away on 10 April 1991. Death due to AIDS. He stood 7'2 1/2 (2.20m). He also played the helicopter pilot in the same film. The character of the Predator in Predator (1987) went through many development stages, including one version that was set up for Jean-Claude Van Damme to play a martial-arts fighting Predator, and finally decided on the crab-like humanoid monster seen in the film.