it's a Brian Sturdivant close-up!
It's a close-up, alright - an extreme close-up. But those became very popular during the show's latter period. I've seen it said that director Henry Kaplan instituted the practice. But while getting captures for this slideshow, I've also noticed Lela Swift doing the same thing (
Louis Edmonds' Ep #1111 close-up back on the 11th is a perfect example of that). But be all that as it may, we're discussing Brian Sturdivant and here's his close-up -
- for anyone who might have missed it yesterday.
somewhere or other recently, I read that he was a personal friend of Jonathan Frid's.
That's very interesting - I'd never heard it before.