What is his best performance outside Dr Loomis?
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edjavega — 19 years ago(July 01, 2006 12:51 AM)
The greatest Ernst Stavro Blofeld of all ("You Only Live Twice") and the first time we saw the face of the top honcho of SPECTRE, other than just his back on a chair holding a cat as in previous films.
That is why it is HIS vesion of Blofeld which was patterned for "Dr. Evil" in those Mike Myers' Austin Powers movies.
He was also great in "The Great Escape" and as one of the Southerner bad guys in Charlton Heston's cowboy movie "Will Penny". Pleasance nailed the Dixie accent perfectly! -
fritzfassbender — 19 years ago(July 01, 2006 12:06 PM)
Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. Even though you only see him for a couple of minutes, he's still the image we associate with Blofeld. That's pretty good.
I'm very fond of an episode of The Outer Limits he did, and I'm sorry that I don't remember the name, but he played a mild-mannered scientist who discovers that he has telekenitic powers. Great stuff.
And one of my favorites, though probably not many others, is his performance in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I would pay for a whole CD just for those few seconds of "I Want You" that he sings. -
SteamshipBooth — 19 years ago(July 15, 2006 06:39 PM)
His best performances were in two great films, THE CARETAKER and in CUL-de-SAC. These 2 movies really made the most of him. The inventiveness he displays from moment to moment is stunning and far outshadows his work in HALLOWEEN. Amazing to think that THE CARETAKER was made some time before CUL-de-SAC, because he is so convincing in THE CARETAKER that you don't even notice he's playing way above his actual age.
Like all the best actors, he had a tremendous physicality. He combined this with great vocal technique, a strong sense of rhythm, a gift for comedy, and great sensitivity.
His character in THE GREAT ESCAPE was the heart of that film. His performance there made me cry when I first saw it as a child. When he says: 'Thank you for getting me out'
But he is always extremely watchable, even when coasting along in lesser films than these.
I think actors like Pleasance show us what humans are really like, not how we want them to be. -
shepardjessica-1 — 19 years ago(July 28, 2006 01:30 PM)
CUL-DE-SAC ('66) directed by Roman Polanski with the beautiful sister of Catherine Deneuve - Francoise Dorleac as his wife. Great film. Also Jacqueline Bisset's first film, I believe.
His 2nd best - THE GUEST (from the Pinter play THE CARETAKER) - 1964 - with Robert Shaw and Alan Bates
Others: The Great Escape, Wedding In White