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		<title>Cult Actors #11: Gary Busey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We’d like to do this one for the boppers – for those of you who bop.”
By popular account Gary Busey is mad. The media is full of his odd antics, like clawing at Jennifer Garner on the Oscar’s Red Carpet, terrorising interviewers with his expansive 6ft frame, snorting cocaine of his dog’s arse and babbling incoherently about aliens and other dimensional beings. This demented Texan from Goose Creek seems to have a one way ticket to Belleview.


On screen he isn’t much different – wired, weird and bursting at the seams. He has more energy than a nuclear accelerator and is sometimes just as volatile.

He was the ex-CIA grunt who could hold a lighter under his own arm without flinching in LETHAL WEAPON (1987). He was the Highway cop who wanted a kiss from Johnny Depp in FEAR &#38; LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (1998) and the cross dressing navel officer who hated Seagal in UNDER SIEGE (1992).
“I know how everyone’s feeling,” he yells in 1983s Joel Schumacher comedy DC CABS. “You’re feeling wild and on the edge and self destructive and I feel like that everyday, every minute of my life.”
So what’s Busey story? Is he a lunatic actor who can ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Actors #10: Dwight Frye</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He had a laugh like fingernails down an icy spine and a 1000 watt stare that could power a crazy house. Dwight Frye, the effete character actor who made his name in films like DRACULA (1931) and FRANKENSTEIN (1931), was one of cinema’s first lunatics. He giggled his way out of a world of gothic castles and macabre murders and left his demented precence locked inside the dark recesses of our minds. It’s easy to imagine him waiting between takes in a straightjacket.


He was known as a crazy, but before heading west to Hollywood, Frye was acclaimed for his versatility on the Broadway stage. He could disappear into a role and turn his hand at anything from comedy and drama to musicals and vaudeville.

His boyish looks saw him cast as, “the son” in a 1922 production of SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR and in 1926 he appeared opposite Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi in the comedy THE DEVIL AND THE CHEESE. Three years later Frye was voted by critics as one of the 10 best actors of the legitimate stage. He had the makings of a star.



With such success behind him he raced to Hollywood in search of fame ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Actors #9: Freddie Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Here… back with another Cult Actors article for your reading pleasure!
Stoke-on-Trent, 1955. The world was darker back then, covered in that thick gloom that goes hand-in-hand with industrial prosperity. In this Northern city red stone kilns coughed out a black smoke sky and the streets below were slick with greasy rain.


The yellow light of the pub attracted them like moths; a warm place to get in out of the choking grey. Inside, working men huddled together, washing away the dirt with heavy ale and tall tales. At the end of the bar, 27-year old Lab technician Freddie Jones liked to hold court.
With a Guinness in hand he would pour out quotes from Shakespeare and regale poems by Tennyson. His performances were large and gaudy and left hazy barflies hooked on his every word. Acting was inch he couldn’t quite scratch.
He tried amateur dramatics and local plays but it wasn’t enough and with his 30s fast approaching he quit his job, packed a bag and headed south. Jones went back to school to study drama and before long he was appearing on stage, and soon found himself in the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company.
He was a large man – both in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Actors #8: Ron Perlman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Perlman shouldn’t be here. I’m standing in the middle of another day glow multiplex, with sticky popcorn under my shoes and surrounded by a gaggle of over excited teens who I know are going to yak their way through the same movie I’m seeing and alls I can think is one thing – Ron Perlman shouldn’t be here.


But there he is, his giant face looming down from a Hellboy 2 poster, snuggled in between Christian Bale’s Dark Knight and Harrison Ford’s heroic archaeologist. The poster tells me that Ron Perlman is the star of a major summer blockbuster. How the hell did Ron Perlman get up there?

He’s not a movie star, he’s a cult actor; a dead end kid with a face like a stepped in puddle of mud. He’s a scared space pirate, a Neanderthal man, a freak living in the sewers of New York. He’s an alien viceroy, a castaway monster on a desert island, he’s a hunchback abandoned by God.

But then in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008) Perlman’s face is, typically, buried behind heavy make-up. His skin is devil red, he has filed down horns and his jaw looks like it’s built out of granite. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Actors #7: Pam Grier</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[



“Have no fear; Pam Grier is here…a chick with drive, who don’t take no jive.”
The trailer for Coffy (1973)

She began as a junkie willing to do anything to get straight – so we think – ready to give herself to a two-bit dealer in return for the needle. She’s wears a short dress, styles her hair in an impressive afro and has a body that curves in all the right places. 


“Hey, big man,” she purrs crawling into his bed. “Why don’t you turn off the lights?”

He gets out of bed, plunges the room into darkness and turns to see the girl – Coffy – pointing a sawn-off shotgun at his head. Her brown eyes twinkle in the moonlight.


“This is the end of your rotten life you mother fucking dope pusher,” she says before blasting a hole in the gangster’s head.

Pam Grier had arrived.

1973s Coffy didn’t just make Grier a star; it turned her into an instant icon. Black women suddenly had an independent role model who they could look up to, and men everywhere fell in love with a lady they wanted, but weren’t sure they could handle.


The film came right in the middle of the blaxploitation movement in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Actors #6: Lee Van Cleef</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 20:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Here...

LEE VAN CLEEF is one of my favourite screen presences' (is that a term?) of all time. Let's now bow to the feet of Tom Fallows for this superb look at his career! By the way if you have any suggestions for future articles, don't be afraid to drop us a line. Tom has chosen all six so far but I'm sure he would be willing to listen to your ideas. E-mail us at editor @ obsessedwithfilm.com.

By 1962 his career as an actor was over. A car accident in ’58 had left him badly injured with a shattered kneecap and a recurring limp. Hell, he’d been getting tired anyway, the parts were no good and he was sick of playing two-bit snakes and snarling bad men in countless big and small screen Westerns.  Sure, he’d been in some classics – classics like High Noon (1952) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - but he was always too ugly to play the hero.
“In just about every film I ever made I was killed off by John Wayne or Gregory Peck or Gary Cooper,” recalled Lee Van Cleef without nostalgia.
His face was frontier mean: his eyes narrow, his ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Actors #5: Peter Weller</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Weller looks like an android. On the surface he has movie star good looks - tall, blue eyes, square jaw - but examine him closer and you’ll see none of it seems to fit. His face is taut and angular, his eyes are set deep in his skull and his skin looks like it’s made out of moulded plastic. His voice too is monotone and nasal – he reads lines like it’s in his programming. He was made to play Robocop (1987).




As Alex Murphy, the police officer executed by street hoods and then resurrected as a mechanical super cop, Weller gives a commanding performance. He stomps through the streets of Old Detroit like a technological knight in shining armour; his cyborg body moving with maximum efficiency, his chrome body reflecting the neon lights of a broken city.

“DEAD OR ALIVE,” he utters to criminals in an unemotive, basso voice. “YOU’RE COMING WITH ME.”

But he doesn’t just play Robocop, he becomes him totally. For the film he seems to shut down whatever makes him Peter Weller and reboots an android psychology. With his eyes hidden, he had to learn to act with his body, training for months with a mime artist ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Actors #4: Yaphet Kotto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





When Yaphet Kotto walks onscreen you take notice. His broad 6’6” figure towers over his fellow actors and he delivers lines with vocal cords that sound like they’ve been massaged with sandpaper. In films like Alien (1979), Blue Collar (1978) and Across 110th Street (1972) he dominates the frame and gives the impression of an immovable man mountain impossible to scale. But there is more to him that just his imposing physicality. Kotto has a presence that is regal, graceful and ferociously dignified. He is after all, the descendant of kings.

His father, Njoki Manga Bell, was a Cameroonian Crown Prince who immigrated to New York in the 1920s. It was in this city that Kotto was born and that mix of street kid and son of a prince would inform his movie personality in the years to come. He is happy as both a regular Joe (like his role as the disgruntled worker in Blue Collar) or as a powerful blue-blooded leader (he has played Othello more than once). Growing up in New York City was tough. If being black wasn’t enough of a reason for people to discriminate against him, Kotto was, and is, a practising Jew. It was ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Actors #3: Rutger Hauer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
“Do you know what happens to an eyeball when it is punctured?” asks Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher (1985), sliding a switchblade up to The Kid’s eye, catching a tear on the glistening blade and watching it twinkle in the passing highway lights. This was not in the script.
Co-star C. Thomas Howell had to contemplate the fact that the intense and bear-like Dutch actor might actually show him. The fear was real. This manic intensity, this reliance on gut instinct and total bloody-minded commitment to character saw Hauer become one of Hollywood’s favourite psychos in the 1980s. Roles in The Hitcher, Blade Runner (1982), Flesh and Blood (1985) and Nighthawks (1981) cemented his reputation as an unhinged cinematic killer  - “a one-man slaughterhouse,” as one critic labelled him.

He is fearless and when it comes to acting insists on fucking with his audience and co-stars expectations as much as possible. After all, he’s the guy who put the blade to Howell’s eye because it felt right, the man who wanted to put on his dead lovers clothes in the climax of Blade Runner and do the final battle in drag. He’s the replicant who kissed his maker on the mouth ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Movie #2: Adrienne Barbeau</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1997 -- The future. The crime rate has risen 400%.

North America is a police state. New York City is a maximum security prison. Fires burn in Manhattan, gangs kill for sport, violence reigns. In the midst of the city’s black streets is Maggie: strong, loyal and compassionate. In a world of fascists, mercenaries and crazies she is the last vestige of unbeaten humanity. But then in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, Maggie is played by Adrienne Barbeau, and from her we can expect nothing less.


Barbeau has been acting steadily since the early 70s. Her career has been varied and displays the versatility of a skilled actress. She’s sung in GREASE, won the Cannonball Run, dated a Swamp Creature, married Rodney Dangerfield, tried to kill Isaac Hayes, danced with a snake and flirted and fought with Gotham City’s Dark Knight.

Underneath all of these performances lays a strength that Barbeau cannot hide. Perhaps it’s her Armenian decent; perhaps that she has lived a full and occasionally difficult life. Her parents divorced when she was 12, she lived alone in New York at the age of 19, she was a Go-Go dancer in mafia run restaurants, she’s been a working single mother, gave birth ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Actors #1: Brad Dourif &#8211; The Devil’s Minion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Those eyes are looking at us; glassy, intense and staring through the camera, burning a hole in the screen. They are eyes that have seen too much bad craziness, eyes that have looked into the abyss and come back insane. It is the Exorcist 3 (1990) and American character actor Brad Dourif is playing an executed killer, given power by the devil to possess the body of a priest (Father Damien Karras from The Exorcist and continue his bloody spree. He is locked in a secure mental institute - and he is ranting.

“A decapitated head can see for approximately 20 seconds before it dies,” he hisses through clenched yellow teeth direct to camera. “I must admit it makes me chuckle every time. It’s a wonderful life; for some.” It is a violent performance, full of brimming rage and sickly evil. The words Dourif speaks belong to his character, but those wild eyes, those deep wells of madness, they are his.

Since 1975 Brad Dourif has appeared in over 100 roles in film and television. He was the voice of the devil doll Chucky in the Child’s Play series (1988-2004), he’s the crow-like Grima Wormtongue in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings ...]]></description>
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