DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '07 I => Topic started by: dvlvan26 on January 29, 2007, 06:42:19 PM
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Hello to All Cousins!
How diverse was the actors on DS?
and list the heritage of the actors.
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I believe Grayson Hall/Shirley Grossman was a nice Jewish girl.
DS writer Violet Welles was also Jewish.
David
a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn
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Hello to All Cousins!
How diverse was the actors on DS?and list the heritage of the actors.
I think Frid's of Scotch ancestory, KLS is of Norwegian (I think) descent, Johnny Karlen is Polish, Dennis Patrick was Irish, we know Alexandra is Danish, I think Louie Edmonds was French, Marie Wallace is Irish. Don't know about anyone else. ;)
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And Dan Curtis was Jewish!
David
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As revealed in RJ Jamison's biography "Grayson Hall: a Hard Act to Follow," Grayson was part Rom (Gypsy) as well.
Overall, DS remained a very white show even as time went on and more and more series added African American characters. I can only think of two black actors on DS, and one of them didn't have any lines. Sho Onodera had one episode as Mr. Nakamura and again, maybe two lines?
I thought in the 1990 remake it would have added a lively degree of interest had Angelique been cast with a black actress. (Of course, had a certain storyline been pursued, this would have meant casting David with a biracial actor as well.)
G.
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If a new version of DS was in the works, the role of Angelique would almost HAVE to be French Caribbean.
A new take on the old Puritan witches would be boring as hell.....
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Jamaican model Iman was seriously considered as Angelique in 1990, which would have made the character's
roots Carribean & buried the Judah Z origins.
I think that would have been perfect.
Anyone who ever saw the films I Walked With a Zombie (1943) or White Zombie (1932) knows how spooky that Island magic can be!
David
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In the role of King Johnny Romano, I'd like to see either Pat Cooper or Mario Cantone. (I just can't make my mind up, who would be better?) :-
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Jamaican model Iman
Actually, she's Somalian. :)
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In the role of King Johnny Romano, I'd like to see either Pat Cooper or Mario Cantone. (I just can't make my mind up, who would be better?) :-
Holy bleep, can you bleeping imagine bleeping Pat bleepin' Cooper as bleepin' King bleepin' Johnny bleepin' Romano! That would as bleeping funny as bleeping bleep! LOFL!
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If a new version of DS was in the works, the role of Angelique would almost HAVE to be French Caribbean.
A new take on the old Puritan witches would be boring as hell.....
Now that would really be an interesting twist.
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In the role of King Johnny Romano, I'd like to see either Pat Cooper or Mario Cantone. (I just can't make my mind up, who would be better?) :-
Holy bleep, can you bleeping imagine bleeping Pat bleepin' Cooper as bleepin' King bleepin' Johnny bleepin' Romano! That would as bleeping funny as bleeping bleep! LOFL!
Oh, yeah, Pat would be absolutely great as King Johnny Romano.
I can see it now, Pat/King Johnny kvetching about how no one in the Romano tribe or Collinwood ever gave him a break
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There was an African American nurse at the Collinsport hospital ..... she even had a few lines! ;)
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Anybody who has seen JF"s one man shows knows his diversity as an actor is amazing.
FYI, he's Scottish and English two generations removed on both sides.
Nancy
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KLS is of Norwegian (I think) descent, ... we know Alexandra is Danish
Yes, Kathryn Leigh Scott is a nice Minnesota girl whose parents were born in Norway, and her family name is very Norwegian.
The Von Moltke family is originally German but some of them emigrated to Denmark for military and diplomatic posts in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Anthony George was Italian.
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Marie Wallace is German-Irish, which is befitting a gal from Manhattan's Yorkville section. Louis Edmonds was proud of his Scottish heritage, and I was with him at a visit to Lyndhurst during a DS Festival. Yes, he wore a kilt! Michael Stroka was Czech, Thayer David (born David Thayer Hersey) was a Mayflower descandant, Virginia Vestoff was Danish-Russian, Donna Wandrey is Polish like John Karlen. Humbert Allen Astredo's roots are Italian and English, Donna McKechnie is Scottish by her father and English by her mother. Since David Selby is from West Virginia, odds are his ancestry is Scots-Irish, which is the background of many people from the Applachian region. Jonathan is half Scottish thanks to his late mother Flora MacGregor Frid. The surname of Frid if I can remeber what Jonathan said, has Danish, German and English roots- can someone correct me on this?
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Thayer David (born David Thayer Hersey) was a Mayflower descandant
Isn't everyone? [ghost_cool]
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Anthony George was Italian.
Suddenly I'm seeing little Anthony George running home for dinner on Prince spaghetti night. (Did that ad run only in the Boston area?)
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Humbert Allen Astredo's roots are Italian and English
I always thought he must be Spanish. I associated him with Dr Who's Roger Delgado in my head somehow as a similar actor with a similar background.
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The Prince spaghetti ad also ran here in West Virginia.