Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never forgotten by Directors Alan Schneider and Seymour Robbie, or by Makeup Man Bob O'Bradovich, who helped make Peter Ustinov's Johnson the goutiest, twitchingest, most scarred and scrofulous hulk of a man ever to wobble across the TV screen. It took 36-year-old British Actor Ustinov two hours to glue down his beard, stuff himself with padding, and secure the five-piece foam latex mask that had been modeled on Sir Joshua Reynolds' celebrated portrait of Johnson. Ustinov joked that it was made of marzipan, and "the wonderful thing...
Omnibus' scrupulous attention to detail almost resulted in tragedy. When Actor Theodore Tenley (as Dr. Dodd) was "hanged," he actually blacked out on camera from what doctors said might have been "a psychological reaction to overrealistic acting." But Tenley so admired Ustinov's strikingly original portrayal that he sent a note saying, "I'd be glad to be hanged again," to which Ustinov replied: "Sir, I believe that for the crime of playing with Ustinov, the death penalty would be too severe. But I shall include in my Dictionary the definition of the word Dodd...
...once urbane and eerie, Deadly Game achieved some of the quality of a Lord Dunsany shocker, benefited from skilled construction as well as from Actor Merrill's supple playing at the head of a sure cast, including Boris Karloff and Harry Townes. Closing scene: Merrill's widow, no angel either, drops in unexpectedly, agrees to stay for dinner and perhaps a parlor game afterward to take her mind off her bereavement...
Died. E. G. (Ernest George) Harcourt Williams, 77, deft, wizened character actor of the British stage (more than 200 plays), screen (Hamlet, Roman Holiday), radio and TV, who joined the Old Vic in 1929, produced (in four years) some 50 plays, revitalized Shakespearean production, introduced works of his old chum, Playwright George Bernard Shaw; after long illness; in London...
...attention, rather than to accent the action. The idea of using masque-like make-up is bright and fresh, but the make-up should be carefully and artfully applied to all the characters. The costumes are merely sloppy: blue-jeans and bare feet like a session at the Actor's Studio...