It's from Season 3, "The Forgotten Room"JackFavell wrote: i need to find that episode of Kojak! I can't IMAGINE Alan Napier that way!
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi1010107161/
It's from Season 3, "The Forgotten Room"JackFavell wrote: i need to find that episode of Kojak! I can't IMAGINE Alan Napier that way!
My pleasure. Sometimes it is a plus to be awake at 2am! BTW, that may be the loveliest image of ET I have ever seen in your new avatar. (Note that it was before she started brushing her hair with an egg beater).MissGoddess wrote:oh wow, i don't think i have ever seen that episode...at least not complete. Thanks, Moira!
You got it, JF...JackFavell wrote:I guess I have to look at the episode, but is John Anderson that tall, gaunt fellow with curly hair whose career lasted well into the 1980's? Looked a little like Fritz Weaver?
Yup, that's the one. One of the best (and darkest) of the whole series of shorts! Was Barry Nelson ever better? I don't think so. For most of his career, he seemed to be kind of Jackie Cooper's less impressive brother. I know that Janet Leigh, who had a big romance with him when both were youngsters at MGM, thought that he was quite intellectual and an underrated actor. Maybe he was one of those guys who was great on stage but hopelessly pigeon-holed by the studios?JackFavell wrote:I am trying to remember that Crime Doesn't Pay short... Is it the one with Barry Nelson?
ha! you mean when she started letting Jose Eber do her hair? that one shouldn't be allowed near a hairbrush without violating his parole.BTW, that may be the loveliest image of ET I have ever seen in your new avatar. (Note that it was before she started brushing her hair with an egg beater
Whatever happened to Jose? He used to be everywhere. Maybe he got caught combing someone's hair to look neat instead of just bewildered.MissGoddess wrote:ha! you mean when she started letting Jose Eber do her hair? that one shouldn't be allowed near a hairbrush without violating his parole.BTW, that may be the loveliest image of ET I have ever seen in your new avatar. (Note that it was before she started brushing her hair with an egg beater
Hmmm, you mean a teenage Janet Leigh might not have been the best judge of Barry Nelson? Shocking. Yeah, a little less "Mary, Mary" and "Under the Yum-Yum Tree" and more of "Crime Doesn't Pay" or even The Shining type of role would have been good, but actors rarely have much control over their fate (and that insecurity sometimes leads the poor dears to resort to stuff like bright henna dye). Glad you survived seeing Barry on stage.JackFavell wrote:I hate to say this, but I saw Nelson on stage. Perhaps I was disturbed by his hair, which was bright, BRIGHT red and exactly the same as he wore it in those early films. Perhaps it was the play he was in, which was supposed to be comedy, but his performance felt like noir - it gave me the willies. His acting didn't really make me think 'intellectual and underrated'. It made me think more 'where is the exit?'
I agree though, he's just great in the Crime Doesn't Pay short. I wish maybe that he had gotten more roles like that, and less in the sixties comedy genre.
...and John Dehner.RedRiver wrote:I'm convinced John Anderson was in every TV show ever produced! Hitchcock, TWILIGHT ZONE. And countless RIFLEMANs!