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Post by petrolino on Sept 15, 2019 1:31:22 GMT
Please share thoughts, pictures, memories of this tall, well-travelled Broadway actor. His lengthy acting career took in numerous roles on stage and screen. He was born in Illinois, attended university in Iowa, joined a playhouse in Ohio and showcased his skills aboard the Goldenrod. Having found success in New York, he later moved to California.
Thanks.
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Post by divtal on Sept 15, 2019 18:58:20 GMT
From time to time, on this board, threads will address performers who we think look alike, or who we confuse, one for the other. John Anderson and Fritz Weaver always come to my mind. Although, their picture galleries, online, show only a few shots where they actually look very much alike. 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.  ) |
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 15, 2019 19:11:46 GMT
Remembering Anderson as one of the three redneck Hammond brothers facing Joel and Randy in the final shootout in RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY -- with one of the most memorable endings (and death scenes) ... not just in Westerns but in all of film.
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A fit closing to the careers of McCrea and Scott -- two icons of Western films.
Director Sam Peckinpah said that those two guys had the best 'walk' in Westerns -- and proved it in that scene.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 16, 2019 0:34:59 GMT
From time to time, on this board, threads will address performers who we think look alike, or who we confuse, one for the other. John Anderson and Fritz Weaver always come to my mind. Although, their picture galleries, online, show only a few shots where they actually look very much alike. 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. ) That happens to me with a number of performers; for example, Jean Dixon...  ...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.
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Post by OldAussie on Sept 16, 2019 1:07:09 GMT
First thoughts - Ride The High Country / Soldier Blue  and  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 16, 2019 1:42:24 GMT
Two indelible television appearances:  The Twilight Zone - The desperate yet resolute pilot of a lost 707 transported back in time in "The Odyssey Of Flight 33."  Star Trek: The Next Generation - One of two apparent and mysteriously serene survivors of planet-wide devastation in "The Survivors." |
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 16, 2019 2:38:30 GMT
Anderson stars in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents third season episode, "The Second Wife." He appears with June Lockhart who has just married him via a mail-order deal. The new husband is a cold, uncommunicative man who takes her to his unheated farm in the middle of winter. She comes to believe that he killed his first wife and is planning to kill her. He is even digging a hole in the floor of the basement. I really hate this particular story because the ending is so unbearable.   |
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