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Jack Elam has got to have the record for the most parts in Hollywood history.
I'm a Charles Bronson fan
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One of my all time favorites in there was Jason Robards. Check out a movie called The Ballad of Cable Houge. Its an off beat , western , comedy love story with a young Stella Stevens , Robards and English actor David Warner . She alone is worth the time watching.
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And we can't forget Michael J Pollard. He was phenomenal in "Bonnie and Clyde".
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Not long ago saw a film with Walter Brennan and Gary Cooper called "The Westerner!" An old black and white film with a very young and slim (even funny) Walter Brennan. That was quite a surprise and enjoyable film from way way back.... LOL Yes Slim Pickens too is everywhere if you like the older movies like I do. Too me, after growing up watching stuff from the early 60s all the way till now, Hollywood does not even exist anymore. They can't even make up anything new. Its all comic books or spy stunt films. They don't even seem to be able to make comedies anymore. I know, its not for us old foggies....
Not to hijack this thread but since I mentioned Slim Pickens, this is my favorite movie scene with him. I believe Bob Dylan, who also stars in the film, wrote this song for this scene.
I just recently read an article in which Billy Crystal was quoted as saying that Charles Bronson had been offered the part of Curly in the movie City Slickers. When Bronson read the script and found out he dies at the end, he turned it down and declared that his part never died in a movie and he wasn't going to die in this one! Jack Palance got the role and nailed it. I've seen a number of Bronson movies but really couldn't say if he lived through all of them or not.
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He died in the Magnificant Seven at the end. That is the only one I can think of?
For sure TV crowded "the movies" for attention and dollars but the household record/playback machines really applied the stranglehold.
The importance of "the silver screen" diminished as did the cash flow.
Hey, occasionally I try to be diplomatic but here I prefer to be negative. Some older movie actors indeed had talent but even the greats were hired to play the same thing over and over.
Seriously, how could you tell they were any good? Cary Grant was almost the same character in every flick, for example.
They were marketed to our ancestors (shoved down their throats if you like). They WERE going to go to the movies.
Truly, think of how mediocre so many TV shows were / are.
Today, with fewer screens and shorter engagements, the producers have to sharpen their "audience focus". Bang, you get drug addict looking guys appealing to high school girls who grew up on television.
It ain't coming back either.
The importance of "the silver screen" diminished as did the cash flow.
Hey, occasionally I try to be diplomatic but here I prefer to be negative. Some older movie actors indeed had talent but even the greats were hired to play the same thing over and over.
Seriously, how could you tell they were any good? Cary Grant was almost the same character in every flick, for example.
They were marketed to our ancestors (shoved down their throats if you like). They WERE going to go to the movies.
Truly, think of how mediocre so many TV shows were / are.
Today, with fewer screens and shorter engagements, the producers have to sharpen their "audience focus". Bang, you get drug addict looking guys appealing to high school girls who grew up on television.
It ain't coming back either.
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Yeah, Its funny , we tried to watch on Retro Tv some of the old shows we loved as kids and its just NO WAY. They were really so stupid and wacked out (especially the 60s flower power days) that they don't age well. Get Smart (one of my favs as a teen) can't watch. Another one so bad its unreal Hogan's Heroes.... etc... One of the worse of all times Laugh In. I remember as kids we thought that stuff was so great and funny. Not so much today.
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He died at the end of The Mechanic, too.
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I forgot The Mechanic! I have that in my DvD collection. One of my favorites of his that is not a western.
There is a character actor named Paul Koslo who Bronson routinely killed in several of his "bad" later movies.
The guy was the age and friend with several of Bronson's kids. He said that seemed to piss him off and Charlie
gave him hell on earth on the first film and treated him like crap. Later he found out it was Bronson who requested
he play the parts he was getting! LOL. He said Bronson was an extremely introverted man and was 100% all business
at work. He also only socialized with his family. Paul Koslo has a bunch of Bronson stories across the internet.
I don't believe he ever starred in a movie. Always had smaller parts
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He was a suppporting cast member in "Support your Local Sheriff and "Support Your Local Gunfighter" with James Garner. Longest performances most likely.
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Wife and I both have seen the first one 100 times. Got the 2nd one taped someplace on a DvD. Need to check it out.
My wife has a Charles Bronson story.
She went to high school at Marymount (Catholic all girls school) in an exclusive area in LA. Charles lived nearby. His young son Tony used to hang out with the girls in the area. Pretty much good influences on each other.
Wife had an off campus pass when she wasn't in class. Drove off campus with her best friend for a smoke break (the school had no smoking rules in effect) and happened to park in front of Charles house. He came out and told them to move the car off the street and park on his estate. Gave them permission to do it anytime the place wasn't locked down. That way they couldn't be busted by any of the school personnel that happened by.
Tony was around 12 years old with a lot of free time and the girls looked out for him. He was a good kid and a nice guy that became part of the group. Probably why Charles did my wife and friend that favor.
She went to high school at Marymount (Catholic all girls school) in an exclusive area in LA. Charles lived nearby. His young son Tony used to hang out with the girls in the area. Pretty much good influences on each other.
Wife had an off campus pass when she wasn't in class. Drove off campus with her best friend for a smoke break (the school had no smoking rules in effect) and happened to park in front of Charles house. He came out and told them to move the car off the street and park on his estate. Gave them permission to do it anytime the place wasn't locked down. That way they couldn't be busted by any of the school personnel that happened by.
Tony was around 12 years old with a lot of free time and the girls looked out for him. He was a good kid and a nice guy that became part of the group. Probably why Charles did my wife and friend that favor.
Girls of driving age cavorting with a 12 year old boy? I'm shocked, shocked!
Lol. It was '73-74 time frame, not too long after the Mansion killings, and around the time Ted Bundy was active in the area (near UCLA). My wife was grateful for the company to and from bus stops and such. Hanging around the 16 year old girls couldn't have hurt Tony's "street cred" but I don't think he looked at it like that.
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