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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 11, 2021 16:07:11 GMT
Keenan Wynn is one of those actors everybody recognizes because he's been in black and white classics, Disney movies, horror movies, TV shows, etc. His career was varied. He is mostly remembered, by me anyway, as often playing a loudmouth blowhard, which he excelled at. I first became aware of him from The Shaggy D.A. (1976) and as the second Digger Barnes on TV's Dallas (taking over from David Wayne, another actor who seemed to be in everything, but that's a thread for another time). Not long after, I discovered him in not one, but two aquatic themed horror movies: Orca (1977) and Piranha (1978). This guy really should stay out of the water, and if you've seen both of these, you'd understand. It was my rewatching of Orca this week that spawned this thread. It had been forever since I'd seen it and had completely forgotten he was even in it. Because I was born in the 70's and only really paid any attention towards classics in recent years, I am happily discovering how proficient he had been earlier in his career. He has a library of classics to look forward to, lucky us. His credits reach far and wide. If you've somehow managed to avoid him, then you're not doing the film fan thing correctly. He seems to have appeared with so many of the greats, he might well have been the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon guy before Kevin Bacon. Keenan Wynn Movies I've Seen (So Far): Song of the Thin Man The Three Musketeers (1948) Royal Wedding Angels in the Outfield (1951) Touch of Evil The Absent Minded Professor Son of Flubber Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Honeymoon Hotel Bikini Beach Stagecoach (1966) Point Blank (1967) The War Wagon Once Upon a Time in the West Pretty Maids All in a Row The Mechanic (1972) Snowball Express Herbie Rides Again Nashville The Devil's Rain The Shaggy D.A. Orca Piranha The Dark Sunburn The Glove Just Tell Me What You Want Best Friends Hysterical The Goonies Black Moon Rising
"My billing has always been "and" or "with" or "including." That's all right, let the stars take the blame." "I do not consider myself a star. I'm a craftsman and I know my craft."
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Post by timshelboy on Apr 11, 2021 16:31:50 GMT
But you have missed the best....
Lots of dross on that CV though....I think I felt more sorry for Martha Hyer in BIKINI BEACH than him - she got him as her romantic lead after Rock, Cary, Mitchum, Holden Sinatra & Tony Curtis.......and one of the frumpiest wardrobes in cinema history
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 11, 2021 16:55:28 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 11, 2021 17:44:28 GMT
"You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company"
That's the same thing that his advisors are telling Prez 45!
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 12, 2021 0:42:59 GMT
"You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company"That's the same thing that his advisors are telling Prez 45!
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 12, 2021 4:22:05 GMT
I can hear him now:
"SCHLEMMER!"
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 12, 2021 13:28:18 GMT
He was so memorable as the short-tempered Captain Joe "Made Dog" Siska in the Spanish Moss Murders episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, spouting such lines as "Kolchak, in group therapy they never told me that I would meet somebody as un-okay as you are!" He was so good in that role, they brought him back in the Demon In Lace episode.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 12, 2021 16:39:25 GMT
The collateral damage from him and Eli Wallach competing to chew the most scenery would be catastrophic.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 12, 2021 16:41:15 GMT
But you have missed the best....
Lots of dross on that CV though....I think I felt more sorry for Martha Hyer in BIKINI BEACH than him - she got him as her romantic lead after Rock, Cary, Mitchum, Holden Sinatra & Tony Curtis.......and one of the frumpiest wardrobes in cinema history I have a lot of good stuff yet to see...whenever I get around to it.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 12, 2021 16:43:02 GMT
"You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company"That's the same thing that his advisors are telling Prez 45! I have never seen it, but is that from One, Two, Three (1961)?
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 12, 2021 16:58:38 GMT
I have never seen it, but is that from One, Two, Three (1961)? Yes, it is. A fine comedy. Cagney's character pokes fun at the Nazi past, often with his German assistant Schlemmer.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 13, 2021 6:14:43 GMT
I remember this sketch from Ziegfeld Follies 1946, we thought if was very funny back in the 1970's on television. Lately seen Keenan in two different kind of police roles, Warning Shot 1967, as David Janssen's police partner in this crime thriller. While that was a serious movie... ...his police in Pretty Maids All in a Row 1971 is pretty dumb making the wrong decisions all the time.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 13, 2021 6:23:02 GMT
He appears in NIGHTMARE IN THE SUN as a weirdo scrapyard dealer with aspirations to be in show business.
He should have been J Jonah Jameson on the tv Spider-man. They chose "Larry Tate" from Bewitched instead.
Maybe he was busy making that classic with Robert Vaughn, THE LUCIFER COMPLEX.
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Post by timshelboy on Apr 13, 2021 7:39:45 GMT
He appears in NIGHTMARE IN THE SUN as a weirdo scrapyard dealer with aspirations to be in show business. He should have been J Jonah Jameson on the tv Spider-man. They chose "Larry Tate" from Bewitched instead. Maybe he was busy making that classic with Robert Vaughn, THE LUCIFER COMPLEX. Have you seen THE LUCIFER COMPLEX? It was one of a couple from his 70s output I'm curious about... seems hard o track down...that one and THE MAN THAT WOULDN'T DIE.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 13, 2021 8:54:25 GMT
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Post by timshelboy on Apr 13, 2021 9:55:58 GMT
Make sure you check him out in the 1955 anti-Commie flick Shack Out on 101. It's a riot, and Lee Marvin - as Slob, steals the show. Cheers Jeff - glad someone committed to employing some quality control in their recommendations. Slob was scary - the way he attempted to violate Terry Moore! It's even better than Terry's MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA or even the one where she gets eaten alive by a shark!
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 13, 2021 13:50:15 GMT
Have you seen THE LUCIFER COMPLEX? It was one of a couple from his 70s output I'm curious about... seems hard o track down...that one and THE MAN THAT WOULDN'T DIE. Yes I have seen TLC but not the other one. I don't think it's as bad as the reputation it has--it's not good but has unintentional humor value.
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Post by petrolino on Apr 13, 2021 21:14:24 GMT
Awesome actor. You've seen some of my favourites from the 1970s. 'Pretty Maids All In A Row' is one of Quentin Tarantino's top 10 movies of all time.
Have you seen 'Coach' (1978) and 'Laserblast' (1978), released the same year as 'Piranha'?
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 16, 2021 15:48:04 GMT
Awesome actor. You've seen some of my favourites from the 1970s. 'Pretty Maids All In A Row' is one of Quentin Tarantino's top 10 movies of all time.
Have you seen 'Coach' (1978) and 'Laserblast' (1978), released the same year as 'Piranha'? Have not see either of those...yet. Laserblast looks to be beyond cheesetastic, simply dripping with fromage...so I will make a point to see it.
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Post by petrolino on Apr 16, 2021 18:03:47 GMT
Awesome actor. You've seen some of my favourites from the 1970s. 'Pretty Maids All In A Row' is one of Quentin Tarantino's top 10 movies of all time.
Have you seen 'Coach' (1978) and 'Laserblast' (1978), released the same year as 'Piranha'? Have not see either of those...yet. Laserblast looks to be beyond cheesetastic, simply dripping with fromage...so I will make a point to see it.
It's fun in parts with imaginative stunts, make-ups, stop motion animation and special effects, yet extremely poignant too. An unflinching account of the dying days of a small, long-forgotten, fringe-dwelling community in pacified post-frontier America that's being bypassed by the onset of home technology and the morons that can afford to access it. It's also a powerful condemnation of bullying, I feel.
Watch it back to back with 'Eaten Alive' (1977) to witness great character work concerning post-traumatic stress syndrome by Neville Brand and Keenan Wynn respectively. They don't make 'em like this anymore.
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