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7 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

RIP David Prowse. Playing Darth Vader and Frankenstein is a great resume. 

He also had bit parts in Hammer Film's vampire epic, Vampire Circus, as well as A Clockwork Orange.  IIRC he also did some creature work for Space: 1999 and Third Doctor era Doctor Who.

RIP to OG Vader.

 

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Yeah, he was the bodybuilder roommate of Patrick Magee in Clockwork Orange. I didn't know that until I looked him up after watching him in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell earlier this year. That was a pretty good Hammer Frankenstein btw, fairly gory since it was the last one in the cycle, but had an interesting story too. Prowse himself was a solid Monster. 

RIP

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Huh, so I guess he played Frankenstein three times. 

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In the mid-1960s, David Prowse, later famous for his portrayal of Darth Vader in the first Star Wars trilogy, had actually gone into the Hammer offices to express his desire to portray one of their movie monsters, but was rather abruptly dismissed. As several years passed by and he went about building a larger body of work through various film roles, he was eventually approached by Jimmy Sangster about being cast as this revisionist Baron Frankenstein's laboratory creation. Prowse has the distinction of being the only actor to have portrayed Frankenstein's monster in more than one Hammer film: this production marked his first such appearance; the second occasion was Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974), where his overall appearance was much more horrifically elaborate. He also appeared briefly in the traditional Frankenstein's monster make-up and costume in a gag appearance in Casino Royale (1967).

They're talking about Horror of Frankenstein BTW

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That one hits close to home. My mother has MS, and it's a bitch of a disease. Shit, even before my mother was diagnosed with MS, when I was a kid I would watch TV Land at night before bed and Laverne & Shirley was one of the shows they'd air. Squiggy was like a discount, sleazy and more comical Fonz and I loved it.

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4 hours ago, Happ Hazzard said:

Barbara Windsor, very well known British actress from the hugely popular "Carry On" films and later Eastenders has died aged 83.

 

 

 

I grew up on Carry On films and by chance you've posted my first one. Cheers. Dame Barbara Windsor was 83 and suffering from Alzheimer's. Dementia and Alzheimer's are so cruel. My Nan and Uncle had it.

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On 12/10/2020 at 9:22 PM, BrianS81177 said:

That's a shame. He was great in The Fifth Element and Friday. 

He also carried all of the weight in the infamous Prisoner's Dilemma scene in Gotham Harbor in The Dark Knight.

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"Give it to me, and I'll do what you shoulda did ten minutes ago."

RIP, Deebo. 

2020 is going to be complete shit until the bitter end.

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