Long Live Walter Jameson…the irony.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Kevin McCarthy
neptunewanter — 19 years ago(June 11, 2006 09:22 PM)
Kevin is Walter Jameson in that Twilight Zone episode where he is the teacher who has lived thousands of years. Centenarian, Estelle Winwood, was also in it. It looks like those who were in the episode were quite blessed.
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dale999 — 15 years ago(September 12, 2010 11:43 PM)
I immediately thought of the Walter Jameson episode when I read that Kevin McCarthy passed away. I had never thought of him as that old, perhaps because my mother who is still living, was also born in 1914 and is 96.
About Jack Warden, he died on July 18, 2006! He was 85 and would have been 86 on September 19, 2006. I do not recall the episode "The L16d0onely", although I've seen most of the Twilight Zone programs many times. But I was in a film with Jack called "Dead Solid Perfect" and he was a most active person on the set and dressed immaculately. That was in 1988.
There is one other note I would like to make. It seems quite unusual that Kevin McCarthy's parents died of that terrible flu in 1918 and my mother's entire family, except her and her mother, became very ill with that flu and her dear grandmother died from it. They all lived in a large home in Buffalo, NY.
I'm wondering, if being exposed to that deadly flu could have somehow given them immunity to other illnesses. My mother has been active as an artist, photographer and sculptor all her life and never has had any illnesses. She is still healthy. and apparently so was Mr. McCarthy since he continued to work. An amazing man and actor, may he rest in peace after a well lived lifetime. -
Randy-144 — 15 years ago(September 13, 2010 05:14 PM)
There is one other note I would like to make. It seems quite unusual that Kevin McCarthy's parents died of that terrible flu in 1918 and my mother's entire family, except her and her mother, became very ill with that flu and her dear grandmother died from it.
Here is a link to a blog about the flu epidemic of 1918.
http://www.worldhistoryblog.com/2009/04/great-pandemic-1918-1919.html
I submitted the comment on that page by RAPman.
Click also on the link
The Great Pandemic 1918-1919
in the blog's first paragraph for an interesting history of The Influenza Pandemic. -
neptunewanter — 15 years ago(September 13, 2010 06:52 AM)
Damn. I always enjoyed watching that episode k2000nowing that McCarthy was still alive; it added a nice extra somethin' to it. I actually just watched it for about the hundredth time last week. Poor guy.
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PrometheusTree64 — 12 years ago(February 13, 2014 02:15 PM)
Yes, given the storyline, was how McCarthy and Winwood became two of the oldest active actors in SAG.
His September 11th death was also immediately notable . At the time, I came here to comment on it and three people had beaten me to it (some of those posts are now gone)! To say nothing of the additional irony of the date, given what would occur in 2001.
A similar eerie coincidence is how Jack Warden has 46 1/2 years to go in his sentence in "The Lonely" episode of TZ, which aired in November 1959. And Warden indeed died ~46 1/2 years later in Summer 2006.
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