(I am in denial forever that Alfred Burke is dead, and he was 92 when he went, too.)
Absolutely. Peter Lorre is immortal.
I really must watch This Sporting Life someday, as that's the role that made Verity Lambert decide he had to be her Doctor Who, and I do tend to be resentfully captivated by all the New Wave stuff anyway.
I look forward to hearing what he's like in it, although I have always had the impression that movie is unrelentingly bleak.
He was such a mixture of things, but always someone who catches your eye on the screen, and his First Doctor so much more captivating in every way than any of his impersonators since.
What do the impersonators miss?
(Meet Mr Lucifer has v interesting ideas, a great cast, and some good bits, but I first saw it at 17 and it is full of so many things I don't like about 50s films. It's taken a long time to forgive everybody in it, not just Peggy Cummins.)
That is a shame, since I see it contains Stanley Holloway.
(I learned "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" from my grandmother, so I have a kind of inherited fondness for Stanley Holloway on top of My Fair Lady and, eventually, seeing him in other character parts.)
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Absolutely. Peter Lorre is immortal.
I really must watch This Sporting Life someday, as that's the role that made Verity Lambert decide he had to be her Doctor Who, and I do tend to be resentfully captivated by all the New Wave stuff anyway.
I look forward to hearing what he's like in it, although I have always had the impression that movie is unrelentingly bleak.
He was such a mixture of things, but always someone who catches your eye on the screen, and his First Doctor so much more captivating in every way than any of his impersonators since.
What do the impersonators miss?
(Meet Mr Lucifer has v interesting ideas, a great cast, and some good bits, but I first saw it at 17 and it is full of so many things I don't like about 50s films. It's taken a long time to forgive everybody in it, not just Peggy Cummins.)
That is a shame, since I see it contains Stanley Holloway.
(I learned "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" from my grandmother, so I have a kind of inherited fondness for Stanley Holloway on top of My Fair Lady and, eventually, seeing him in other character parts.)