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Even so wakes General Clive Wynne-Candy
Stuart Freeborn, R.I.P.
I had no idea the same person who brought Roger Livesey through forty years in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1942) had designed Yoda. Or that when I was comparing myself to Guinness' Fagin, this was the man who'd created his nose. Or that he was part of both Dr. Strangelove (1964) and The Great Muppet Caper (1981). Or that he was still alive or that he'd died.
Dammit.
I had no idea the same person who brought Roger Livesey through forty years in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1942) had designed Yoda. Or that when I was comparing myself to Guinness' Fagin, this was the man who'd created his nose. Or that he was part of both Dr. Strangelove (1964) and The Great Muppet Caper (1981). Or that he was still alive or that he'd died.
Dammit.
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The prosthetic work on Livesey is so convincing I believed it was his own body he was flaunting in the bath-house.
That the same man should be responsible for the apes in 2001 and the marvellous grotesques in the Star Wars cantina, well, words fail. What an extraordinary talent!
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I had seen Livesey in I Know Where I'm Going!, so I knew he was youngish, but otherwise I would have been shocked when he surfaced from the plunge-bath, lean and russet-haired, singing terribly out of key. I would not have guessed.
That the same man should be responsible for the apes in 2001 and the marvellous grotesques in the Star Wars cantina, well, words fail. What an extraordinary talent!
I hope someone does a film festival for him. It would be such a wealth.