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Warren Stevens, Veteran Character Actor, Dies at 92
The Hollywood Reporter ^
| March 28, 2012
| Mike Barnes
Posted on 03/29/2012 12:21:16 AM PDT by EveningStar
Warren Stevens, whose busy seven-decade career as a character actor in Hollywood included a key role in the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, died Tuesday of respiratory failure at his home in Sherman Oaks. He was 92.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: forbiddenplanet; obituary; rojan; startrek; thebarefootcontessa; warrenstevens
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg; KevinDavis
To: EveningStar
Pictures help.
This is a guy I remember seeing a hundred times on my TV during the '60s. Very familiar face.
To: EveningStar
I remember him well. A long and fruitful life. Condolences to his surviving family members.
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posted on
03/29/2012 12:40:05 AM PDT
by
RightOnline
(I am Andrew Breitbart!)
To: Lancey Howard
Great Star Trek episode. Scared me as a kid when he turned people into those cubes and crushed one in his hands.
"This person is dead."
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posted on
03/29/2012 12:40:13 AM PDT
by
boop
(I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. ...Ernest Borgnine)
To: Lancey Howard
He was in a lot of shows, as per IMDB. Only one Perry Mason, though ( which I do remember ... from Me TV, that is! ) and I guess that picture is from his role as Rojan in Star Trek, memorable for the reduction of the crew members, at his hands, to “crystals” about the size of volleyballs.
Of course his role in Forbidden Planet was the prototype for McCoy, in Star Trek.
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posted on
03/29/2012 12:49:27 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: boop
Yes! That’s where I remember him from. Could the cube he crushed have been from a person in a red uniform perhaps?
RIP Warren Stevens
To: MacMattico
Actually, and I remember this from the SciFi channel's Star Trek Special Edition, they were cuboctahedrons:
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posted on
03/29/2012 12:55:49 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: dr_lew
I am now remembering the sound that was made when the person was turned into the cube. Wasn't the cube what was suppose to be left after all water was removed from the persons body? Why do I remember this ? I was born after Star Trek was canceled! (Still loved it!) I blame this on my brother, we had to watch every episode 20x!
To: All
To: dr_lew
Cuboctahedrons. Oh. Explains the one question I got wrong on my SAT’s!
To: MacMattico
Wasn't the cube what was suppose to be left after all water was removed from the persons body?I don't think so. It was more abstract. Something about encoding all their thoughts and personality, etc.
OK. here it is:
"This is the essence of what they were. The flesh and brain and what you call the personality, distilled down into these compact shapes."
( I can never get over being able to find all this kind of stuff on the internet. )
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03/29/2012 1:06:10 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: dr_lew
That was my second guess. ;)
I should have just looked it up, then again if you take away the brain and personality part, it could run as a democrat.
To: windcliff; stylecouncilor
To: EveningStar
He figured out the mystery of the Krell's downfall.
RIP, Doc.
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posted on
03/29/2012 1:17:42 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
To: MacMattico
I've got one!
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posted on
03/29/2012 1:21:49 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: Ken H
One of my favorite movies in any genre.
To: boop
Nothing scared me more than that Twilight Zone with Billy Mumy as the kid who could read minds. He turned that one man who got drunk into a little jack-in-the-box clown and the guy’s wife freaked out.
To: dr_lew
Prominently displayed, I hope!
To: dr_lew
Well, now we know what became of Jimmy Hoffa.
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posted on
03/29/2012 4:20:28 AM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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