Vaughan was brilliant as the elder patriarch Tom Hedden holding his Cornish town in his family's grip in the original Straw Dogs! Even just that early scene in the pub is full of menace!
Or in the small role as the big boss of the corporation in Terry Gilliam's Brazil (" 'ere I am J.H.' The ghost in the machine"), and turning up in a Santa suit to lend some Christmas cheer to prisoners being tortured (sorry 'information retrieved') in his dungeons! He also played the grumbling ogre in Time Bandits!
And he's in the 1960 Villiage of the Damned as a police officer, one of the weirder Hammer Films Fanatic and a number of Ken Russell films. Not to mention the recently unearthed by the BFI Symptoms.
Vaughan was brilliant as the elder patriarch Tom Hedden holding his Cornish town in his family's grip in the original Straw Dogs! Even just that early scene in the pub is full of menace!
Or in the small role as the big boss of the corporation in Terry Gilliam's Brazil (" 'ere I am J.H.' The ghost in the machine"), and turning up in a Santa suit to lend some Christmas cheer to prisoners being tortured (sorry 'information retrieved') in his dungeons! He also played the grumbling ogre in Time Bandits!
And he's in the 1960 Villiage of the Damned as a police officer, one of the weirder Hammer Films Fanatic and a number of Ken Russell films. Not to mention the recently unearthed by the BFI Symptoms.
He was Christopher Eccleston's dad in the wonderful Our Friends in the North!
med wrote:This hits me almost as hard as Bowie did. Sager was as much a part of the NBA experience as the game itself.
I don't get this at all.
Part of the watching a sport is the sight and sounds of it. Sager became that with the NBA the same way Vin Scully became part of the Dodgers baseball experience and Harry Carey with the Cubs. Sager had been an integral part of the NBA for at least 25 years and his colorful attire brought attention to the sideline reporters. His rapport with the players and coaches was great which lead to great back and forth comments with people like Greg Poppovish in San Antonio and Phil Jackson with the Lakers.
He dislodged a piece of meat with a bone in it from the airway of an 87-year-old woman, telling the BBC: "I didn't know I really could do it until the other day."
Not to make light of his death but I thought that bit from the article was pretty awesome.
