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> {quote:title=sineaste wrote:}{quote}
> A guy wearing a tiepin with his own name on it...Well, okay. A guy wearing a tie with lobsters on it...Hmmmm. A guy wearing both at the same time...Red Alert!! I really liked Robert Walker's vocal inflections when he meets Farley and spells out his plan. They seem so perfect for his suavely conniving character.
Yes, red alert, indeed.
And the way he speaks is delicious, indeed - such suave villainy!
> You do learn something new every day. Now whether it's worthwhile or not is a whole other question.
Well, you never know... sometimes it is, even if it doesn't seem that way at the time.
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*Character actor Pataki dies of cancer*
Thesp frequently played the baddie
By VARIETY STAFF
Character actor Michael Pataki died Thursday in North Hollywood, Calif., of cancer. He was 72.
Pataki was a versatile thesp who frequently played the bad guy in pics like "Grave of the Vampire" and "Airport '77."
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Pataki attended USC where he double majored in drama and political science.
His film debut was an uncredited role in 1958's "Ten North Frederick," but it was at a 1966 summer stock festival in Edinburgh that he impressed.
Other films included "The Onion Field," "The Dirt Gang," "The Baby" and "The Bat People."
On TV Pataki recurred on "The Amazing Spider-Man" and guested on series including "The Twilight Zone," "Combat!," "Rawhide," "My Favorite Martian," "Ben Casey," "Batman," "Mission: Impossible," "The Flying Nun," "Baretta," "Happy Days," "McCloud," "Barney Miller," "Little House on the Prairie," "Charlie's Angels," "T.J. Hooker," "WKRP in Cincinnati," "Laverne and Shirley," "The Jeffersons," "The Fall Guy," "Airwolf" and "St. Elsewhere."
He guested on the original "Star Trek," where he was the first to speak the Klingonese language, and on "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
More recently, Pataki was the voice of George Liquor in the animated "The Ren and Stimpy Show" on Spike network.
Pataki directed low-budgeter "Mansion of the Doomed" and soft-core sex farce "Cinderella." He produced the TV version of tuner "Pippin" in 1981. He also worked as an acting coach.
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Villa, Pancho - Wallace Beery in Viva Villa!
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A - Out of Africa
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Gregory Peck was in Moby Dick with Richard Baseheart
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Nichols, Mike - directed The Birdcage
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Joanne Dru
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Nolte, Nick
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King Kong
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Footlight Parade
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Jewison, Norman - directed The Thomas Crown Affair
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W - Westworld
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The Great Sinner
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Tony Curtis was in The Black Shield of Falworth with Janet Leigh
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Dinner at Eight
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Johnson, Ben
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Yellow Sky
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Ben-Hur
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Maureen O'Sullivan was in The Big Clock with Ray Milland
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U - Road to Utopia
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Five Graves to Cairo
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Hathaway, Henry - directed Niagara
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John Cassavetes was in Rosemary's Baby with Mia Farrow
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Sunset Blvd.
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Fun facts about Peter Ustinov:
* Birth name: Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov
* Was fluent in French, German, English, Italian, Russian and Spanish and can pass in Turkish and Greek among others.
* He was known to proudly say "I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins."