To Boldly Be Sad Where No Man Has Been Sad Before
September 27, 2009
Well, not exactly. I suppose someone else was sad first, for they made the site: U.S.S. EXCALIBUR MEMORIAL.
Go there. Go there now.
But be prepared to be saddened, as I was, for that is a memorial site to dead Star Trek actors. At the top, it's got the biggies, like DeForest Kelley and James Doohan, but then it proceeds to list what can only I imagine is a complete list of everyone else who ever acted on any Star Trek series and is now deceased.
I dare any Star Trek fan to scroll through that list and not tear up. Especially you TOS fans.
What really got me, though, was the actors who you know mostly from other things, such as...
...Kevin Peter Hall
(who played both the predator in Predator and Harry in Harry And The Hendersons)
...David Graf
(who played Officer Tackleberry in the Police Academy films)
...Andreas Katsulas
(who played so many great characters, such as G'Kar in Babylon 5)
...Vincent Schiavelli
(who also has played many great characters, such as John O'Connor in The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension)
All dead.
Posts
September 27, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Vincent Shiavelli is, and will always be, the crazy ghost on the subway who teaches Patrick Swayze how to move things from beyond the grave. Oh shit, I hope he's not doing that right now for real.
September 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Yes! A thousand times, YES!
October 17, 2009 at 5:54 PM
David Graf is dead?!?!
No wonder they stopped making Police Academy movies.
and by the way, Vincent Schiavelli is and always will be the Organ Grinder who kidnaps all the children in Batman Returns