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Members' Mausoleum => Calendar Events / Announcements Archive => Calendar Events / Announcements '26 I => Calendar Events / Announcements '07 I => Topic started by: Jackie on March 04, 2007, 11:27:45 PM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY THAYER!!
Birth Date: March 4th
DS Roles:
Ben Stokes 1795, 1796, 1840, 1841PT
Ben Stokes(PT) 1841PT
Matthew Morgan 1966
Mordecai Grimes 1840
Professor Timothy Eliot Stokes 1968-1971, 1995, 1840
Sandor Rakosi 1897
Timothy Stokes(PT) 1970PT
Victor Fenn-Gibbon (aka Count Petofi) 1897
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Another person taken far too soon. Happy 80th Mr. David
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Wow! Looks like Thayer may have been the actor that played the most characters on the show! The man was brilliant in every role.
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Wow! Looks like Thayer may have been the actor that played the most characters on the show! The man was brilliant in every role.
I totally agree! I love his portrayal of all his characters especially Ben Stokes in 1795. Sandor was funny and loved his relationship with Magda! Petofi was the most evil character he played and he played him to the hilt!
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Wow! Looks like Thayer may have been the actor that played the most characters on the show!
I think you're right, dom, and Jackie's collage shows them all. He played 8 different roles, not counting when the same characters were ghostly, aged, zombified, or using a different name, lol. Reverend Strack makes 9 if you include NoDS. ;)
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Sandor was funny and loved his relationship with Magda! Petofi was the most evil character he played and he played him to the hilt!
There's an episode in which we see Sandor, and in the very next scene we see Petofi. It didn't even seem like the same actor.
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When he played different characters, they really were different characters. I've always wondered what his real age was back then. Well, not always, because as a kid, I took it for granted that he was Prof. Stokes' age, presumably 60 or 55. Apparently, early 40s, which makes sense, midway between Elliot and Ben. It's the difference between those two that strikes me now usually. He's not just convincing at both ages, he's convincing as both personalities. He had respect for the Ben character, where many wouldn't and might have played him without giving it much attention, while waiting for a more 'attractive' part. He threw himself into the mindset and soul of him.
This makes the appearance of Elliot Stokes that much more meaningful. They don't even pause to deal with it much in the dialogue, but his existence alone puts a very life-affirming and encouraging backstory in the viewer's mind. Naive, 'slow', 'criminal' Ben later educated himself, learned to think for himself and question what he saw around him, and his descendant is a professor who can run rings around everyone logically.
Along with the Trasks, who showed the kind of hypocrisy that was being questioned then, the Ben-Elliot story represents the best new thinking (or new priorities) that we saw entering the popular culture in the '60s.
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Happy birthday, Thayer David! A man of many talents whose characters came to life. Thank you for making Dark Shadows such a joy to watch! :) 8)
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I couldn't have said it better myself, Magnus! Very well put! :) 8)
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The wonderful, the magnificent, the incomparable Thayer David. Truly favored and a sad exemplar of the truth of the ancient proverb that the Greeks had--"those whom the Gods love die young."
I wish whoever owns the rights would give a proper release to Thayer's Nero Wolfe film. It is one of his finest roles and deserves to be more widely known.
G.