Obscure Actors that we rememeber from our childhood

Mary Elizabeth Hartman, American actress, 1943 - 1987, nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as a blind girl in the 1965 film, A Patch of Blue, starring opposite Sidney Poitier. She took her own life at age 43; never realizing her full potential.

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Inept said:
This thread is turning out to be MUCH MORE interesting than I thought it would be. Soo many actors I knew but haven't thought about in ages! (y)
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I watch "Rifleman" everyday.
 

I remember Arnold Stang, Elisha Cook and some of the other faces in this thread. @Paladin1950 Dub Taylor's face was instantly recognizable to me, but I ever knew his name. I remember Jack Elam, Whit Bissell and several others posted throughout the thread.

@Michael Z I always thought Michael J. Pollard was a cutie. Didn't realized he had passed (20190. Also didn't know he was a Jersey boy from a town not far from my hometown.

@oslooskar Wow! I've seen your cousin in a few things. I'm sorry to read of his passing. My condolences to you and your family. May he R.I.P.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
Mary Elizabeth Hartman, American actress, 1943 - 1987, nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as a blind girl in the 1965 film, A Patch of Blue, starring opposite Sidney Poitier. She took her own life at age 43; never realizing her full potential.

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I agree with you. She was a stunning talent, even playing the wife in Walking Tall (1973).
It was in my hometown of Pittsburgh that she jumped to her death from her apartment building window. Very sad.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Richard Boone (Have Gun Will Travel)

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I never missed an episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel"!! Loved that show.
But you know Boone was capable of playing a frightening bad guy, e.g. the sadistic outlaw in Hombre (1967). The only guy possibly better was Al Lettieri as Solozzo in The Godfather, and as Rudy Butler in The Getaway-- both in 1972. They were so good, it felt as if you shouldn't be watching them...:unsure:
 
ChiroDoc said:
I never missed an episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel"!! Loved that show.
But you know Boone was capable of playing a frightening bad guy, e.g. the sadistic outlaw in Hombre (1967). The only guy possibly better was Al Lettieri as Solozzo in The Godfather, and as Rudy Butler in The Getaway-- both in 1972. They were so good, it felt as if you shouldn't be watching them...:unsure:
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Richard Boone had such a rugged face and definitely looked like someone you wouldn't want to mess with. I must've watched Have Gun Will Travel too. After all, wasn't much else on (but westerns) back in those days. I've never seen Al Lettieri in anything but dang...he's been dead for 50 years! According to Wikipedia, he died at age 47...too young.
 
ChiroDoc said:
... Boone was capable of playing a frightening bad guy, e.g. the sadistic outlaw in Hombre (1967). The only guy possibly better was Al Lettieri as Solozzo in The Godfather, and as Rudy Butler in The Getaway-- both in 1972. They were so good, it felt as if you shouldn't be watching them...:unsure:
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My money would be on Al Mulock from "Once Upon A Time In The West":


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OneEyedDiva said:
Richard Boone had such a rugged face and definitely looked like someone you wouldn't want to mess with. I must've watched Have Gun Will Travel too. After all, wasn't much else on (but westerns) back in those days. I've never seen Al Lettieri in anything but dang...he's been dead for 50 years! According to Wikipedia, he died at age 47...too young.
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Miss Diva-- You've never seen The Godfather?..Lettieri played Sollozzo, who ganged up on Luca Brasi to send him to the fishes; the mobster who was negotiating with Michael Corleone in the restaurant when Michael kills him and Capt. McCluskey.

If you haven't seen The Getaway (1972), with Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, I'd recommend it. Lettieri plays the hit man hired to get McQueen's character. He's pretty chilling.
 
Inept said:
Remember Tom Mix?


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When the band I was in moved back to L.A. in 1968, the leader and his family rented the old Tom Mix log cabin. Mix had lived there during the silent era. It was a cavernous place that had a huge living room with a fireplace that you could practically stand it. We rehearsed downstairs at the basement level, which also had a one lane bowling alley with a mechanical pin setter. The structure caught fire in 1981, and was torn down. I think the lot is still empty today.
 
ChiroDoc said:
When the band I was in moved back to L.A. in 1968, the leader and his family rented the old Tom Mix log cabin. Mix had lived there during the silent era. It was a cavernous place that had a huge living room with a fireplace that you could practically stand it. We rehearsed downstairs at the basement level, which also had a one lane bowling alley with a mechanical pin setter. The structure caught fire in 1981, and was torn down. I think the lot is still empty today.
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Sounds like a castle to me.
 

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