Man classed up everything he was in.
R.D. Call, movie and TV character actor. He was in “Born On the Fourth of July”, “Last Man Standing”, and “Waterworld”, as well as a fair amount of TV. Of particular note: he was in “L.A. Takedown”, the TV movie that later became “Heat”.
Max Von Sydow is indeed an actor who will be missed. I remember watching the old NBC Saturday Night at the Movies, when I was a kid, and my parents would go out. I would love movies like Peter Falk in Anzio, Bridge on the River Kwai, and Max Von Sydow in some old movies whose names I cannot remember, but whose face one could never forget, nor his imposing demeanor.
My mom’s brother owned what used to be called a honky tonk, on a small lake near our small town, here in Michigan, out in the country. And so they often went there to dance to the country and western bands he had, or just as often, to work there for extra money for our family. My dad also had a foundry job, and my mom worked for her uncle in a crate mill, hand nailing wooden pallets, with another woman partner. They had 5 kids, with me having a twin brother.
I will be 60 this summer, but when I was around 8 or 9, I would walk down to that crate works, and watch the women nail pallets, for hours, in the summer when I was not in school. The only thing I had to do was make sure I was wearing shoes. I think I learned my work ethic from my mom.
My dad, as I said, worked in a foundry. His dad before him did as well. I actually had a college scholarship for a full ride for the first year, to play football. Plus, several others, for academics and as a musician. Instead, I ended up, you got it, working in, not an actual foundry, but in a place that melted steel for the investment casting industry. We melted steel, but instead of pouring it into molds,we made it into ingots and sold them to casting companies who then made what ever they made out of it.
We sold it to places that made guns, boat propellers, artificial hip sockets, replacement knees, etc. And we also made metal in a vacuum and sold it to companies who made jet engines. So this was a step up from just making grey iron. It took math skills, chemistry, and such, plus the dealing with melting down,and casting and dealing with molten steel. I worked there over 35 years, so I was pretty much the only one who did every single job in the entire plant,and most of them in the lab.
Sorry to give you my life story, sometimes I get on a roll, and don’t have enough sense to stop. Anyway, again, I wanted to thank you for your posts. And wish you a good spring.