A former railway clerk and wireless operator for the RAF, he came out of WWII to build a career as a manically nervous, occasionally imperious and often downright perverse character actor in a stunning range of film and television appearances across any number of genres. In fact, he's done so much work, he could almost be compared to Jess Franco with nearly 250 credits to his name...!
Join us as we pick out a number of favorites and a few odd surprises along the way, as we touch on everything from arthouse to war and comedy to horror, only here on Weird Scenes!
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Weird Scenes Week 95 (4/20/23): From Horse Laughs to Hollywood to Fat Suit Hell: The Rapid Rise and Precipitous Fall of Eddie Murphy
Weird Scenes Week 90 (2/9/23): Richard Harris in the 70’s
Weird Scenes Week 89 (1/26/23): The Films of Michael Crichton
Third Eye Cinema Week 96 (1/22/23) Chris Hector of Ahab (10 years on)
Weird Scenes Week 88 (8/25/22): Satan in the 70’s (a discussion of satanic cult films)
Weird Scenes Week 87 (8/11/22): Paranoia, Decadence and Dissolution – The Films of Roman Polanski
State of the Disunion - Guns n’ Russians and the Neverending American Horror Story
Weird Scenes Week 86 The Hard Boiled Exploits of Philip Marlowe
Weird Scenes Week 85 (12/9/21): Go Ape! The first major multimedia craze and how it disappeared into the vaults of time
Weird Scenes Week 84 (11/11/21): Questions Within Enigma: the films of Stanley Kubrick
Weird Scenes Week 83: SF with a message - the dystopic visions of the counterculture era
Week 95 (10/17/21) - Show-Ya (and special guest)
Weird Scenes Week 82 - Ridin' the Rails with Rob: the unflappable cool of Robert Mitchum
Weird Scenes Week 81 - Tony Curtis
Weird Scenes 4/5/21: Zero Minus One – Resurrection Revival Meeting Grab Bag (Coronavirus One Year On)
Weird Scenes Week 80 - Donald Pleasance Week 2: Final Stage
Weird Scenes Season 10: Zero Hour - State of the Disunion special report
Weird Scenes Week Zero Coronavirus Update: The Dump Trump Special
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