Ouch -- A Double
Feb. 25th, 2006 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomGreat sadness. Actor Darren McGavin, who was in a gazillion things but is probably best known around here as Kolchak in the movies and series The Night Stalker, has passed away at the age of 83.
And, one of the ones we've been dreading: Don Knotts has died at the age of 81.
What are your favorite roles by these two? For me, I'd say with McGavin I've always had a fondness for the Disney movie No Deposit, No Return, as well as his turn as the reporter Hornbeck in the Kirk Douglas/Jason Robards made-for-TV version of Inherit the Wind. With Knotts, it's no contest: The Incredible Mr. Limpet, followed closely by the TV repairman/evil demigod/whatever in Pleasantville.
And, one of the ones we've been dreading: Don Knotts has died at the age of 81.
What are your favorite roles by these two? For me, I'd say with McGavin I've always had a fondness for the Disney movie No Deposit, No Return, as well as his turn as the reporter Hornbeck in the Kirk Douglas/Jason Robards made-for-TV version of Inherit the Wind. With Knotts, it's no contest: The Incredible Mr. Limpet, followed closely by the TV repairman/evil demigod/whatever in Pleasantville.
