Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 16, 2019 0:34:59 GMT
For years, I remembered Weaver as having played "California Charlie," in Psycho, as well as a physician, on an episode of "Emergency." They were John Anderson's roles.
Both were good actors, so I can take nothing away from either one of them. But I don't know how many of their roles I might have mis-attributed. (Otherwise, I'm aging very well.
)...and Ruth Donnelly
Anderson and Weaver were indeed similar physical types, but I can always tell them apart by Anderson's rustic quality (even in modern roles like that in Psycho)...
...as contrasted with Weaver's scholarly, professorial manner
In some never-made movie, they could have played brothers who separated in youth: one who stayed on the family farm; the other who went to the big city in pursuit of education and culture.
One account of the making of Psycho has it that Alfred Hitchcock's direction to Anderson when Marian surprises him by accepting the offer he expected her to refuse ("Say, your car plus...$700") was to simply let all emotion and expression drain from his face.