Even so wakes General Clive Wynne-Candy

[sovay]

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.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Damn. I had no idea. At least he made it to 98.

Nine

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'd no notion, either. It's amazing how much some people can do.

May he rest in peace. His memory for a blessing.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I had no idea.

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!