Derren Nesbitt - just a puppet?
Larry Shackley
glitches such as cars going by in the background, Pat's stand-in very obviously
showing up in exercise scenes (in the forest), transitions between Portmeirion
footage and studio mock-ups, etc.
But one of my favorite things is Derren Nesbitt as #2. Has anyone ever watched
this episode and thought that Nesbitt looks like a person created by Gerry
Anderson? I kept waiting for him to say "Thunderbirds are GO!" The hair, the
features, especially the lips...make him seem more like a denizen of Fireball
XL5 than the Village! But I couldn't spot any telltale strings!
- Larry
Lew Stringer
Ah yes, the similarity of Nesbitt (ex-husband of Annette Andre) to a Gerry
Anderson puppet has been noted for years. (The Joe 90 specs in that episode
didn't help him avoid the comparison either). I can guarantee that every
time his name pops up in a conversation between Priz fans, someone will joke
about the similarity. Interesting to know that you reached the same
conclusion independently!
Lew
David Mackenzie
> But one of my favorite things is Derren Nesbitt as #2. Has anyone ever watched
> this episode and thought that Nesbitt looks like a person created by Gerry
> Anderson? I kept waiting for him to say "Thunderbirds are GO!" The hair, the
> features, especially the lips...make him seem more like a denizen of Fireball
> XL5 than the Village! But I couldn't spot any telltale strings!
>
> - Larry
I think he resembles Joe 90 more than anyone else. Particularly the
bit where he is speaking into his spectacles.
He gives a much better performance in "Where Eagles Dare".
David.
Malus Aforethought
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Plus those Joe 90 specs...
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Malus Aforethought
"Lew Stringer" <Lew.St...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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D'oh! Ignore my Joe 90 specs post... hadn't read yours. Hey, was he married to
AA before or after the episode was filmed? (I don't think they meet in the
episode, but must have done at rehearsals).
redcat
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You know who else looks puppety -- Peter Wyngarde with his camel eyelashes.
redcat
Malus Aforethought
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Puppety - great word. I'm glad this hasn't turned into a "wooden acting"
thread! Peter W had some great Rayban shades on the beach in that too. Is
there a trend here - how puppety is Colin Gordon? ;-) (of course wasn't Robert
Rietty, the "voice of Number Two", also the Voice of the Mysterons???)
Steve Dix
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>Puppety - great word. I'm glad this hasn't turned into a "wooden acting"
>thread! Peter W had some great Rayban shades on the beach in that too. Is
>there a trend here - how puppety is Colin Gordon? ;-) (of course wasn't Robert
>Rietty, the "voice of Number Two", also the Voice of the Mysterons???)
Not sure, but he was in "The Italian Job" as the police chief. He was
the master of voice-overs, even dubbing Jack Hawkins voice after the
latter had his voicebox removed due to cancer.
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"Steve Dix" <st...@stevedix.de> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:35:48 +0100, "Malus Aforethought"
> <Ma...@Askforit.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >Puppety - great word. I'm glad this hasn't turned into a "wooden acting"
> >thread! Peter W had some great Rayban shades on the beach in that too.
Is
> >there a trend here - how puppety is Colin Gordon? ;-) (of course wasn't
Robert
> >Rietty, the "voice of Number Two", also the Voice of the Mysterons???)
>
> Not sure, but he was in "The Italian Job" as the police chief. He was
> the master of voice-overs, even dubbing Jack Hawkins voice after the
> latter had his voicebox removed due to cancer.
>
>
Apropos Jack Hawkins, see also dubs by Charles Gray, narrator to Rocky
Horror in the film.
Co-incidentally, Donald Gray (Col White a la Capt. Scarlet) did the Mysteron
voice didn't he ?
Smudge
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I'm a neophyte to Capt Scarlet (Greener than Lt. Green) so I defer to anyone
with greater knowledge!! If only Parsley were here! (Was nice to see/hear
Francis Matthews at Portmeiricon a few years back tho')
David Mackenzie
> Anderson puppet has been noted for years. (The Joe 90 specs in that episode
> didn't help him avoid the comparison either). I can guarantee that every
> time his name pops up in a conversation between Priz fans, someone will joke
> about the similarity. Interesting to know that you reached the same
> conclusion independently!
Just checked imdb to see if he was married to Andre during the Priz,
but no luck. However... he was born today (19 June) in 1935!
Coincidence?
There was no date of death. Is he still alive?
David.
roger
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> There was no date of death. Is he still alive?
He was still going strong on the 27th March this year!
www.priz.biz
for 21st century Prisoner publications and CD.
redcat
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He does look like a Gemini.
redcat
Jill Mills
> He does look like a Gemini.
>
> redcat
I'd spend all day wondering how people look like their star signs and if,
therefore, *I* look like a Nesbitt, but fortunately we Geminis don't believe
in that stuff... ;-)
I saw the gentleman in question on the TV recently in some "cold war" film.
(Could that really have been Frank Sinatra I saw as a reluctant marksman as
I zapped past?)
At one stage Derren Nesbitt seemed to have cornered the market in Eastern
bloc heavies.
I'm sure that black leather coat waited in readiness in his wardrobe. :-)
Cardinal Zorak
"David Mackenzie" <da...@tarbrax.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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Yes he certainly is. Crops up in theatre and on TV from time to time. He has
also contributed to a reconstruction of his Dr Who story that he starred in
(alongside his later assistant, Number 100, Mark Eden!!!)
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Cardinal Zorak
"I imagine you've been under considerable stress."
"I had hoped for a more inspiring epitaph."
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Larry Shackley
that he had a set of VERY yellow teeth. There's a current US toothpaste
commercial in which a guy flashes a similar set and loses a girl immediately.
- L
redcat
"Larry Shackley" <lcsha...@cs.comblahblah> wrote in message
Poor Derrin. But in all fairness today tooth whitening is only a wish away,
whereas back then it wasn't achievable. Of course, if he smoked his teeth
yellow he had no one to blame but himself!
redcat
kathryn young
when Patrick McGoohan opens his mouth) - "it was the sixties - you could be
star and have bad teeth"
redcat
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