Oh, Ripper. You're scaring me

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I suppose this sort of scattershot posting is what Facebook or Twitter is for.

Nah.

1. Who the hell is the fellow on the left in this photo?



To the right, we have Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville in the foreground; I believe that is Gaetano Ventimiglia behind the camera and the internet indicates that Michael Balcon is next to him. I can't find any version of this picture online that tells me who the man in the technician's coat is, except that his face is familiar to me, his body language, it feels like it should be obvious and I can't make it click. I can't tell if I'm mistaking him for some character actor or if it's just that I've never seen him as early as 1926, but it's driving me crazy. Any ideas?

2. Robin Sachs has also died. I only ever saw about half a dozen episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but Ethan Rayne was very possibly my favorite thing about it (even if I did once rewrite his Latin. I don't blame the character). Otherwise I remember him in various makeup from Babylon 5 and Galaxy Quest, but I liked him best as a chaotic sorcerer of unfailing untrustworthiness and downright pathetic hand-to-hand skills. (Seriously, if there is not already a Tumblr of Ethan Rayne getting his ass stomped by Giles, I feel like fandom has failed somehow. I can practically find a Tumblr for Gravity Falls' rainbow-puking gnome.) I wouldn't have seen him in that role again, but I'm sorry I'll never have the chance to run across him elsewhere in something unexpected and new.

3. The first time I went out to shovel the steps and the front walk, there were four or five inches on the ground. The second time, more like seven or eight. The last time, we didn't have steps: just a smooth, sidewinder-whisking diagonal of snow which my mother estimated, as I cleared my way down the street, at a generous ten inches and a foot in the drifts. That was a little after midnight. Tomorrow should be fun.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Ludwig and Willy Reiber are also credited as being on the production team for this film by imdb. Could it be one of them?

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Could it be one of them?

I wondered, but then I couldn't find pictures of either of them!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

No more can I, of course. They'd have been about 22 and 28 respectively: I would say the man in the picture is more likely to be Willy, if it's either of them.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

He looks a bit like Robert Vaughn, but (a) he wasn't born then, and (b) lots of people did in the '20s.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I thought of Vaughn too.

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He looks a bit like Robert Vaughn, but (a) he wasn't born then, and (b) lots of people did in the '20s.

Huh. I hadn't thought of Vaughn, but now that you mention it . . .

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

Gaetano is rather beautiful. I think there is a great love guadrangle indicated by this picture, though really I am making this up. The man in the lab coat, whomever he may be, is studying the vagaries of their various personal connections.

Anyways. Be safe in the snow!

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The man in the lab coat, whomever he may be, is studying the vagaries of their various personal connections.

Poem!

Be safe in the snow!

Thank you! A lot of shoveling is about to take place.

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

Ha! Okay - I'll work on that.

I am not jealous of the shoveling, but of the snow...yes...*moons*

[samhenderson.livejournal.com]

He sort of reminds he of a young Denholm Elliott.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

That was my thought too.

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He sort of reminds me of a young Denholm Elliott.

He doesn't so much me, but in the course of an average LJ conversation, I wind up staring at young Denholm Elliott a lot.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

1.

I wish I could help. I hope you can find out who it is.

2.

RIP. He was grand in Galaxy Quest. I wasn't watching Buffy that season, unfortunately.

3.

I wish you good luck with the snow, and safety in it. We've something like that here, up level with the front steps when I dug out a pit beside them for the dog, the path to the driveway covered level with the bushes to the point that there's no distinguishing them.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Robin Sachs in Brideshead Revisited? He's marvelous, as is the series as a whole.

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Have you seen Robin Sachs in Brideshead Revisited?

No, I never have. This is the famous version with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews? I shall make a point of doing so.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

That's the one. Does a great job mixing humor and pathos, while looking at the way both gay men and Catholics passed as mainstream by selecting which parts of their identities to expose. And the central performances are delightful.