RIP
For all the stuff he did my favorite was actually a guest star role on Columbo. Just a wonderful actor.
shareIt’s amazing how many of the stunts he did himself on The Wild Wild West. RIP
shareR.I.P.
shareHe played a nasty guy flawlessly -- all ego and mouth but coward in the clutch, while still trying to pretend he was a big guy -- on Mannix. His girlfriend finally walks out: "She'll be back," his character says. "She always comes back." It was a tightrope of a act, because he also had to play the charismatic star of a TV show. He did the part so well people thought he was really like that. Whether he was or wasn't, he could play it flawlessly.
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shareIn the early sixties movie "Palm Springs" he played a feisty, spoiled rich kid with a chip on his shoulder. I often felt his feistiness was what made his characters, good and bad, so appealing.
shareAnother great one lost
shareMy favorite was Pappy Boyington on Baa Baa Black Sheep / Black Sheep Squadron. Then there was his awesome Eveready battery commercials...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA6mksFu2vc
And Johnny Carson's parody - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BPN2mbBSMM&t=1m37s
shareSaturday Night Live did a parody, too, with Martin Sheen playing Conrad. He's in a bar and dares some guys to call his battery regular, they do then take it and play keep away and make "Conrad" cry.
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