R.I.P. excellent charactor Actor Vincent Schiavelli

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Character Actor Vincent Schiavelli Dies
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ROME -
Vincent Schiavelli, the droopy-eyed character actor who appeared in scores of movies, including "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Ghost," died Monday at his home in Sicily. He was 57.
He died of lung cancer, said Salvatore Glorioso, mayor of Polizzi Generosa, the Sicilian village where Schiavelli resided.
Schiavelli, whose gloomy look made him perfect to play creepy or eccentric characters, made appearances in some 150 film and television productions, according to the Internet Movie Database...

I always got a kick out of spotting him in movies. I think "Lord of Illusions" was the only flick where I predicted he'd show up...

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 December 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

for reference:

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051226/capt.lon10712261638.italy_obit_schiavelli_lon107.jpg?x=180&y=254&sig=aT71WTa.C6BpF6CdIOWFRA--

http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/graphics/banzai3.jpg

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/mgm/the_adventures_of_buckaroo_banzai/_group_photos/ellen_barkin1.jpg

And his Star Trek appearance!

http://www.algonet.se/~nalle5/bond/galleri/bilder/man/schiavelli2.jpg

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 December 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh no! I rrrreally loved his acting. Then again I don't remember him in Fast Times. Anyway, RIP Vincent. :-(

FUCK (lung) cancer. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 26 December 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

he also wrote cookbooks

― $#@!, Monday, 26 December 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh no, he's got the best face! RIP.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 26 December 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Goddamnit... :(:(:(:(

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 December 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

awww, rip. i always liked him. & i always expected he'd eventually die too young of that heart condition he had.

i didn't know he lived in a sicilian village!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 December 2005 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Isn't he (eh, wasn't he) married to the woman who played the receptionist in the show with Bruce Willis Cybill Shepherd called "Moonlighting"?

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Monday, 26 December 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I will always remember him for his role in "Better Off Dead" as the teacher who awkwardly asks John Cusack if he'd mind if he took out Cusack's ex-girlfriend. He was also great in "The People vs. Larry Flynt." RIP.

― Mugged Outside the Jabberjaw, 1993 (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 26 December 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

pretty sad... I've something to say about the new weights of deaths and the communicative speed of the modern age but feel here is not the place

RIP

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 26 December 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link

please fuck off

― ###, Monday, 26 December 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Absolutely the best five minutes in Tomorrow Never Dies. R.I.P.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 26 December 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

They played up his strange looks in the movies but I saw him walking down the street outside NYU once and he cut quite a dapper figure.

Yeah, Buckaroo Banzai as imaged above, also Heat Vision and Jack- pretty much anything he did.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Monday, 26 December 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

!!!

aw man!

― born-again Christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

And all this time, I was thinking that the Houston Rockets, with good coaching, would be able to get it done this year. What a shame. R.I.P.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember seeing him on the street too! A face you couldn't forget (despite the effort).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

so so great - its a rarity to find someone so perfect at filling in small roles (M. Emmett Walsh springs to mind). RIP.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

this sucks...:-( RIP

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link

RIP.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

"Fast Times Actor Switches All the Way to Sanka"

― literalisp (literalisp), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

best guy ever.

― s1ocki, Monday, 22 October 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link

"GET OFF MY TRAIN!!!!"

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link

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