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Post by hi224 on Mar 18, 2019 18:46:51 GMT
thoughts on his acting.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 18, 2019 21:16:47 GMT
Always liked Rod Taylor in whatever I have seen him in starting with and
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 18, 2019 21:21:22 GMT
Never knew he was an Australian and this may partially explain why Rod talking about The Catered Affair (1956) "The Brooklyn accent I put on during the test so convinced the producers that I was from New York that they cast me as a Bronx boy. They didn't know I was just 18 months out of Australia until the movie was half finished."Rod and Debbie Reynolds at the Automat in The Catered Affair
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 18, 2019 21:26:57 GMT
I liked him in the High Commissioner (Nobody Runs Forever). I have Dark of the Sun waiting for me on blu ray but haven't seen it yet. He's a great no-nonsense tough guy. He actually plays an Australian in that film...
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 18, 2019 21:59:14 GMT
Great actor.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 18, 2019 22:43:26 GMT
I always found him to bring great authenticity and quiet authority to his roles, even in silly early projects like World Without End, in an understated way. I've never known why he didn't ever make it to front-rank star status, but he's been an asset to every film in which I've seen him, and is always a pleasure to watch.
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Post by hi224 on Mar 18, 2019 23:04:00 GMT
I always found him to bring great authenticity and quiet authority to his roles, even in silly early projects like World Without End, in an understated way. I've never known why he didn't ever make it to front-rank star status, but he's been an asset to every film in which I've seen him, and is always a pleasure to watch. original choice for Popeye Doyle by studio.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 19, 2019 0:20:27 GMT
Best stuff was in Dark of the Sun.
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 19, 2019 1:02:16 GMT
Best stuff was in Dark of the Sun.
love it. Very good actor.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 19, 2019 18:59:18 GMT
I always found him to bring great authenticity and quiet authority to his roles, even in silly early projects like World Without End, in an understated way. I've never known why he didn't ever make it to front-rank star status, but he's been an asset to every film in which I've seen him, and is always a pleasure to watch. original choice for Popeye Doyle by studio. I hadn't heard that before. Interesting to consider. Some of the others, like Lee Marvin, James Caan or Peter Boyle, would seem more obvious, but less likely prospects for roles sometimes yield surprising results. It may be hard to imagine now, but Hackman himself might very well have seemed a less likely one at the time.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 19, 2019 19:14:37 GMT
original choice for Popeye Doyle by studio. Reading this quickly (very quickly) I wondered how he could have been more Popeye than Robin Williams was Popeye.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 19, 2019 19:17:12 GMT
Didn't know he was the voice of Pongo. I agree with A Catered Affair 1956, The Time Machine 1960, The Birds 1963 and Dark of the Sun 1968.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 19, 2019 19:50:07 GMT
He reminds me of Robin Williams.
He did a terrible peplum film around 1960 and he said the only reason he did it was because he was dating Anita Eckberg and wanted to visit her in Rome.
He did a SHAMUS tv pilot in 1975. I didn't know it was a SHAMUS pilot--and I had watched the movie the week before sothe supporting cast from the film (including a character who died in the movie) were back so I clued in quickly.
He came up in a conversation about stars who fell off the radar--I think after 1970 he seemed to fall by the wayside--did he do anything of note? He did one film around 1970 where he had a big fight with William Smith (who was wearing a white wig in the movie and was supposed to be bald so his hair comes off during the fight). Oh yeah, that reminds me, CHUKA. That was one US western I rather liked. Usually they seem "phoney" or something to me but that one was rather interesting--and he was producer or writer on it too. He has a long fight with Ernest Borgnine.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 19, 2019 20:04:03 GMT
Chuka is a good movie. I'm a fan of Westerns in general.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 19, 2019 20:12:17 GMT
@ taylorfirst1 you are not his cousin or other relative are you ?
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 19, 2019 21:08:12 GMT
He reminds me of Robin Williams. He did a terrible peplum film around 1960 and he said the only reason he did it was because he was dating Anita Eckberg and wanted to visit her in Rome. He did a SHAMUS tv pilot in 1975. I didn't know it was a SHAMUS pilot--and I had watched the movie the week before sothe supporting cast from the film (including a character who died in the movie) were back so I clued in quickly. He came up in a conversation about stars who fell off the radar--I think after 1970 he seemed to fall by the wayside--did he do anything of note? He did one film around 1970 where he had a big fight with William Smith (who was wearing a white wig in the movie and was supposed to be bald so his hair comes off during the fight). Oh yeah, that reminds me, CHUKA. That was one US western I rather liked. Usually they seem "phoney" or something to me but that one was rather interesting--and he was producer or writer on it too. He has a long fight with Ernest Borgnine. Prime -- that battle with William Smith was in the 1970 film DARKER THAN AMBER, from the John D. McDonald novel. Rod played Travis McGee and Theodore Bikel was sidekick Meyer . Perfect casting on both counts. I wish they had appeared in more versions -- I clearly picture them both when reading more in the series of Florida-based novels.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 19, 2019 22:23:01 GMT
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 19, 2019 22:37:05 GMT
I remember him in a short lived TV series called “Bearcats” in the 70’s. Rod and Dennis Cole (Jaclyn Smith’s husband) we’re some kind of agents roaming the new/old West in a Stutz Bearcat. It was kind of like “The Wild Wild West”. I really liked it but I think it only lasted one season.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 19, 2019 23:13:02 GMT
jervistetch Here I thought I had seen just about every olde tv show ever made .. missed this one and it looks like fun !
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 20, 2019 1:14:42 GMT
Thanks, BATouttaheck I liked that show so much that I actually bought the model kit of the car they drove, which was as much a character as either of the two leads. p.s. I can't believe it's on DVD. Maybe I should seek it out. But after almost 50 years I would hate to discover that it was awful. The odds are probably pretty high that it was awful.
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