RIP Robert Prosky

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Robert Prosky -- "Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and I'm not Him." -- died at 78.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2008/12/rip_sgt_jablonsky.html

"Let's do it to them before they do it to us."

 

[Steak Snabler]

Also played The Judge (the team owner) in The Natural. Absolutely oozed evil in that part ...

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

He was pretty creepy in "Christine," too, with the kid who played Rodney Dangerfield's son in "Back to School," along with Alexandra Paul and the evil car that came to life to rub people out.

 

[markvid]

Who else thought he'd passed away years ago?

 

[micropolitan guy]

Also on Hill Street Blues. Very solid character actor.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

Keith Gordon. That was the kid's name who drove Christine and got wigged out by Prosky.

 

[markvid]

Christine was the first Stephen King novel I bought.
Movie was a let-down.

 

[playthrough]

I wish he hadn't been needed on Hill Street (replaced Robert "let's be careful out there!" Conrad when he died), but he was solid nonetheless. RIP.

 

[Double J]

Keith Gordon was great. He also starred opposite George Clooney and Robert Culp in the TV movie "Combat High."

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Ernie Merriman in "Broadcast News."

RIP.

 

[BYH]

Christine was the first Stephen King novel I bought.
Movie was a let-down.

A harsher lie has never been spoken, you rotten *******!

I ****in LOVE that movie. LOVE IT. I have it on my TIVO and I won't let my wife nuke it (until I get it on DVD, at least). I'll admit part of the fondness may be due to the fact it was the first R-rated movie I ever saw in the theatre (at 10, my mom rawks).

Gordon is uncanny in it. And what's the exchange with him and Harry Dean Stanton when the leader of the shop gang is run down by Christine?

"They had to use a shovel to scoop him up."
"Well, isn't that what you do with ****?"

 

[DanOregon]

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Daniel: [Discussing the boring children's show] What kind of idiot kept this guy on the air of twenty-five years?
Jonathan Lundy: Me.
[introductions, ending with:]
Daniel: I'm Daniel Hillard, former employee.

 

[markvid]

Christine was the first Stephen King novel I bought.
Movie was a let-down.

A harsher lie has never been spoken, you rotten *******!

I ****in LOVE that movie. LOVE IT. I have it on my TIVO and I won't let my wife nuke it (until I get it on DVD, at least). I'll admit part of the fondness may be due to the fact it was the first R-rated movie I ever saw in the theatre (at 10, my mom rawks).

Gordon is uncanny in it. And what's the exchange with him and Harry Dean Stanton when the leader of the shop gang is run down by Christine?

"They had to use a shovel to scoop him up."
"Well, isn't that what you do with ****?"

Oh, I still watch it every time it's on, just didn't think it was as good as the book.

 

[spnited]

I wish he hadn't been needed on Hill Street (replaced Robert "let's be careful out there!" Conrad when he died), but he was solid nonetheless. RIP.

That would be Michael Conrad as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus.

A tough act to follow, but Prosky pulled it off well.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Christine was the first Stephen King novel I bought.
Movie was a let-down.

During an awful string of King adaptations (Christine, Firestarter, Pet Sematary)

 

[playthrough]

I wish he hadn't been needed on Hill Street (replaced Robert "let's be careful out there!" Conrad when he died), but he was solid nonetheless. RIP.

That would be Michael Conrad as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus.

A tough act to follow, but Prosky pulled it off well.

Cripes, I can't believe I screwed that up.

And the way Conrad's death was played in the show was classic -- heart attack during sex with the fabulous Grace Gardner, played by Barbara Babcock.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Bearrineau in Lords of Discipline

 

[imjustagirl]

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Daniel: [Discussing the boring children's show] What kind of idiot kept this guy on the air of twenty-five years?
Jonathan Lundy: Me.
[introductions, ending with:]
Daniel: I'm Daniel Hillard, former employee.

I didn't recognize the name, but as soon as I opened the link, this was the scene I thought of. I knew his face, never his name. A good sign for a character actor.

 

[HejiraHenry]

He was in Thief, too, a vastly underrated movie.

Joe Bob says check it out.

 

[BYH]

Christine was the first Stephen King novel I bought.
Movie was a let-down.

During an awful string of King adaptations (Christine, Firestarter, Pet Sematary)

I thought "Christine" was lauded, for lack of a better term, as one of the better adaptations at the time?

I really liked it. Of course, I was 10 when I read the book, and I pilfered it from my dad on vacation. By the time he found out, it was too late muahahahha.

And no string of awful King adaptations can be complete without a mention of "Maximum Overdrive."