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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 19, 2018 22:58:48 GMT
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jan 19, 2018 23:07:43 GMT
Harry's boss in The Enforcer and Sudden Impact.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 19, 2018 23:16:51 GMT
Great actor.
Bradford Dillman R.I.P.
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Post by OldAussie on Jan 19, 2018 23:40:40 GMT
Harry's boss in The Enforcer and Sudden Impact. |
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Post by jervistetch on Jan 19, 2018 23:50:31 GMT
Whenever I think of Brad Dillman I think of this scene. (Please forgive the strange quality of this video. It's all I could find.)
R.I.P.
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Post by neurosturgeon on Jan 20, 2018 0:01:44 GMT
I always enjoyed watching Bradford Dillman, even though he often played less than sympathetic characters. He was chilling in "Compulsion" as the child killer.
I looked him up not too long ago, realizing that I hadn't seen him do anything for quite a while, he seemed to quit around the time his wife, Suzy Parker passed away. I have missed him, but his work will live on.
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Post by gunshotwound on Jan 20, 2018 0:47:13 GMT
RIP Bradford Dillman!
A festering worm wrap in ivy league deceit.
I do not think Dillman would disagree with my flippant description of himself. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 20, 2018 1:44:19 GMT
R.I.P. Bradford Dillman, and so soon after his Piranha leading lady, Heather Menzies.  |
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 20, 2018 1:52:05 GMT
Dillman was also an accomplished stage actor. He originated the role of Edmund Tyrone in Eugene O/Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” Edmund was the character by which O’Neill represented himself. (Dean Stockwell played the part in the Sidney Lumet film.) He also seemed to have a good sense of humor about himself. He once said, “Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony, theatrical name, so I kept it.” On another occasion, he had appeared in an episode of Mission: Impossible (the last story of season 2 in 1968). Regularly on this show, you might remember, Martin Landau played a master of disguise who could wear a full face mask of the villain and look just like him. Of course, the actor playing the villain would also play that character disguised. Dillman got to do this and enjoyed it. However, a friend of his mother’s always thought he was a terrible actor and never failed to say so. Dillman told an interviewer, “I was acting my heart out impersonating Martin Landau who was impersonating me. What did it get me? My mother’s friend observed, ‘Boy, that Martin Landau is a great actor. I sure hope you were studying him because you could have learned a lot. He was more like you than you!’” Sounds like he had a good attitude. I always liked him. Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Last night, one of our SAC bombers crashed behind the Iron Curtain. The plane's fail-safe mechanism did not distruct and has been taken to the Vatzia Institute, which is headed by the brilliant American scientist Paul Shepherd, who defected several years ago...Dillman's picture from the envelope during the Self-destructing Tape scene from Mission: Impossible (March 17, 1968)  |
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Post by outrider127 on Jan 20, 2018 2:21:34 GMT
boring, forgettable actor--but R.I.P. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 20, 2018 3:19:00 GMT
I think I will watch one of his tv movies.
Five Desperate Women.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 20, 2018 4:09:10 GMT
Always interesting -- even in the clunkers. Never boring !
Bradford Dillman and Suzy Parker aboard the Santa Rosa in New York prior to their wedding  Francis of Assisi  |
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Post by telegonus on Jan 20, 2018 4:40:54 GMT
boring, forgettable actor--but R.I.P. I think that Bradford Dillman was competent but unexciting. He always appeared to be working hard when he acted. |
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Post by teleadm on Jan 20, 2018 9:24:22 GMT
RIP Bradford!!' Someone has to play dispicable, authoritative, stubborn and sometimes slightly dumb characters, and he did them so well.  He played a few good guys too |
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Post by OldAussie on Jan 20, 2018 10:37:16 GMT
Another Columbo guest star - as I recall, he was murdered by Ray Milland.
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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 20, 2018 12:03:35 GMT
I last watched him in Escape from the Planet of the Apes playing a more sympathetic character than usual. Solid and dependable, he was (and still is) a comforting name to spot in the opening credits.
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Post by marshamae on Jan 20, 2018 12:29:16 GMT
I always liked him and his sense of humour. He and Suzy Parker starred in a film about a soldier who is allowed to be captured so he can leak false information . Circle of Deception also starred Harry Andrews and Robert Stephan’s. Very good film and great performances.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 20, 2018 13:08:14 GMT
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