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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 29, 2019 15:04:18 GMT
He co-starred very memorably with his acting partner Al Pacino in The Indian Wants The Bronx, the early production of The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, and the "best" Local Stigmatic apparently (1976) done as a Performance Art piece for Joe Papp. Do you know what part he played? I assume Pacino's partner, am I right? Yes, (Ray to Pacino's Graham) and that's crucial because it showed you the way they both thought about acting - to them there was nothing they couldn't do apart or together especially. Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (an insanely difficult play that I saw Pacino do years later with an all-star cast), The Local Stigmatic (neither looks or sounds British at all - they are miscast by definition - and it has to be done in British slang - and they absolutely didn't care - ie it's made for people like Gary Oldman/Tim Roth........... but they are not going to not do it, they are going to do it and FNCK the audience ) ........both did Shakespeare which they saw the same way (and Joe Papp did too) - Americans sometimes did it sure but not many then. It doesn't take a lot of thought to imagine Cazale in Pacino's 79 Richard III if he had lived. Even going further than that Cazale didn't ever mind playing "second" to Pacino because he didn't see it as a competition - he saw it as service the piece - he never played anything "Small" or "Supporting" in his life. If anything p*sses me off is when someone says "oh, he was a character actor" like its a put down (ie they weren't "stars") - if you ever hear anybody say that Cazale or PSH or Dafoe ........your BS detector should go off. The short HBO documentary "I Knew It Was You" really summarizes how his approach was so unique - short career, exceedingly important actor imo.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 29, 2019 18:32:44 GMT
There is no story sadder, and more politically incorrect story in today's time than Adrienne Shelley - no one mentions her here at all - (and people seem to love Hal Hartley on here?) she was was murdered - senselessly - and she was murdered by an illegal immigrant. He ended up being convicted of manslaughter - outrageously so. Shelley was the star and muse behind Hartley's first two (excellent) films The Unbelievable Truth and Trust. Sort of an updated version of 80s Rosanna Arquette in looks and style. She wrote, directed and co-starred in Waitress with Keri Russell too. She was only 40.
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Post by cherry68 on Aug 29, 2019 20:04:37 GMT
Poor Brittany Murphy died because of some bacteria in her house (her husband died briefly after for the same reason). She was good both in comedy and dramatic roles. A sad loss.
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 30, 2019 1:04:37 GMT
Elizabeth Hartman Loveee her in You're a Big Boy Now... she has a playful otherness, a sexiness, a little deranged, love how she moves around the room like in the scene above. Very touchingly shy and then internally agonized in The Beguiled and The Group. Only did eight movies and some TV projects ( pacinoyes - once again, how is her Night Gallery ep!?) - long suffered from mental illness and committed suicide at 43y/o.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 30, 2019 7:48:03 GMT
Loveee her in You're a Big Boy Now... she has a playful otherness, a sexiness, a little deranged, love how she moves around the room like in the scene above. Very touchingly shy and then internally agonized in The Beguiled and The Group. Only did eight movies and some TV projects ( pacinoyes - once again, how is her Night Gallery ep!?) - long suffered from mental illness and committed suicide at 43y/o. Very gentle episode almost dull even but she's better than the overall material - not my kind of thing - its not really scary it's more lovely and poignant in tone - wouldn't go out of my way to see it but not bad by any means just not very Night Gallery-ish.
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Post by Longtallsally on Sept 2, 2019 12:06:53 GMT
Carole Lombard, she died in a plane crash at the age of 33.
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Post by fiosnasiob on Sept 3, 2019 9:19:55 GMT
"The Goddess of Shanghai", "The Garbo of China", etc... nicknames and qualifiers were numerous for silent film icon Lingyu Ruan who sadly took her own life when she was only 24.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Sept 3, 2019 23:43:12 GMT
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Post by getclutch on Nov 19, 2019 19:19:05 GMT
Another young talent that just could not control his demons. He was very close friends with DiCaprio, Maguire & Haas. I also believe he nearly got the role as Luke Brower in Growing Pains which went to Leo. Very sad that Christopher Pettiet left us too soon, wish he had gotten better support.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Nov 19, 2019 20:40:14 GMT
Oh honeys, Jess Franco Spanish starlet, Miranda Soledad died in a car accident aged 27. She starred in 35 movies in 10 years.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 30, 2019 20:44:10 GMT
Paul Shenar, a theater and TV actor got a very big break playing Alejandro Sosa in Scarface (1983) - this role was shopped around a bit to much bigger actors. Shenar never got much benefit from this part, he died 6 years later at 53. But it's a memorable small role and his portrayal is eerily on target.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Jan 1, 2020 0:29:13 GMT
Katrin Cartlidge
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Post by sirjeremy on Jan 1, 2020 14:29:42 GMT
Ian Charleson ( Chariots of Fire, Gandhi) died 30 years ago this year at the young age of 40. Regarded as one of the most talented stage actors of his generation, his death helped raise awareness of AIDS and HIV in the U.K, and his theatre legacy lives on in the Ian Charleson award that's awarded to the most promising stage actor under 30.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Jan 2, 2020 14:21:24 GMT
Elizabeth Hartman Loveee her in You're a Big Boy Now... she has a playful otherness, a sexiness, a little deranged, love how she moves around the room like in the scene above. Very touchingly shy and then internally agonized in The Beguiled and The Group. Only did eight movies and some TV projects ( pacinoyes - once again, how is her Night Gallery ep!?) - long suffered from mental illness and committed suicide at 43y/o. I do have to say she does have a unique aura about her in this clip. I just read about her because I didn't know anything about her and my heart goes out to the poor woman. Mental illness truly takes over your life to the point where people just want to escape it. That's why there's a high suicide rate associated with it. Quote from her sister: “She was very suicidal,” she recalls. “As soon as I arrived, she took an overdose of sleeping pills and was rushed to intensive care. But, the next night, she appeared on stage and she was wonderful. I spent two weeks with her to try to get her to the theater every night. She was frightened of everyone and everything. We’d go to breakfast, and she’d get up and dash out as though somebody was after her."
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Post by getclutch on Jan 31, 2020 16:05:25 GMT
He would have been 55 years old tomorrow. Very tragic what happened. I think he was only getting warmed up as an actor/star. Unfortunately, we will never know.
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Post by wallsofjericho on Jan 31, 2020 18:01:51 GMT
Raul Julia.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 7, 2020 19:53:39 GMT
Robert ChristianPlays the transgender, frightened and forsaken character in 1979's .....And Justice For All very memorably in two scenes, he also appeared in Prince Of The City. He died of complications of AIDS in January 1983 at 43.
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Post by fiosnasiob on Feb 8, 2020 11:04:54 GMT
Zbigniew Cybulski aKa the guy with dark glasses, iconic Polish actor best known for being the star of Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds, died in an accident at a railway train station at the age of 39.
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Post by cinemagirl16 on Feb 12, 2020 2:36:21 GMT
Leslie Cheung
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Post by The-Havok on Feb 13, 2020 14:48:02 GMT
The Lives of Others star Ulrich Mühe who died a year after the film was released
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 19, 2020 1:43:53 GMT
Pier Angeli is already mentioned by pacinoyes but I'm gonna double-down. Oddly with two of my recent watches (Teresa, Ride a Crooked Trail), I look up the beautiful actress in them, Pier and the other Gia Scala, only to see that they died so young by barbiturate overdoses at 38/39. They were both Italy-raised, came into the movies in the '50s, dated stars (James Dean; Steve McQueen), etc. Pier had the better career and was just getting into freaky giallo type movies before she died. Gia I haven't seen much at all and her career was already slowing, and may have never returned anyway, but still she seemed to have a tough, interesting way to her... I'm looking forward to seeing her Hitchcock Presents episodes....
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Post by franklin on Sept 21, 2020 11:38:37 GMT
Of course River Phoenix, he was an hybrid of both Leonardo DiCaprio and his brother Joaquin in terms of acting abilities.
He could have easily been the biggest movie star and greatest actor of his generation, basically the position DiCaprio has been holding for two decades now.
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Post by getclutch on Nov 9, 2020 21:17:48 GMT
Yeah, Sunny Johnson had a small resume of film projects. Still, very devastating she passed away yet I am sure she loved her work & would have continued working today.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 27, 2020 11:45:56 GMT
There's a guy I wanted to cover in the "genre" thread but my feelings on this actor run so deep and are so personal it goes beyond genre and I'm not sure I ever covered him in any way - maybe in the IMDB days - Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is the first actor I ever liked or was a fan of - and while I can write (endlessly ) on other actors there's very few that meant to me what Bruce Lee did. Specifically it's 2 films - Fists of Fury and Chinese Connection which had their titles labeled wrong and flipped for their US release when I first saw them. To see these films which used to be shown at a retro double features constantly at the local 2nd run theater was an eye opening experience. The characters Lee plays in those films were a revelation to me and in many ways how I saw myself. Not in how he fought, but in how he thought and felt. In Fists of Fury (now correctly called The Chinese Connection) he had a whole zen manner and outlook - when he comes at the end to fight the grandmaster, the old man throws a caged bird onto a branch of a tree - Lee then throws a rock breaking the branch and knocking the cage to the ground and freeing the bird. Even as a kid I found that poetic and beautiful - and this scene from Chinese Connection (now correctly called Fists of Fury) is still my favorite action scene ever because so much depended on it. Watch the scene below and look how genius this is - character, subtext, control and loss of control. Dead at 32, his son actor Brandon Lee would die at 28. Born today .......1940. RIP
Like I said in the above post - first actor I ever liked ......also I'm pretty sure the first actor I ever had a movie poster for......and it was a bad-ass poster
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Post by getclutch on Sept 9, 2021 17:28:19 GMT
Yeah, very short resume for Laurie Bird had though her true passion been always photography than being an actress. Still, very devastating she left at an early age.
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