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MartinWolfe83420

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Dec 27, 2002, 8:29:52 AM12/27/02
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From the Washington Post:

Ken Tobey Actor

Ken Tobey, 85, who had seven prolific decades playing small roles such as Capt.
Patrick Hendry in the 1951 film "The Thing from Another World" and in numerous
television shows, died Dec. 22 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The cause of death was
not reported.

He often played a law enforcement officer, a soldier or military brass. His
nearly 100 films ranged from Westerns to B-movie thrillers.

Mr. Tobey made dozens of appearances in television from the 1990s back to 1949,
when he played a sheriff's deputy in an episode of "The Lone Ranger." He also
starred in the TV show "Whirlybirds," playing the co-owner of a
helicopter-for-hire.


GC

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Dec 27, 2002, 3:10:24 PM12/27/02
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>Ken Tobey, 85, who had seven prolific decades playing small roles such as Capt.
>Patrick Hendry in the 1951 film "The Thing from Another World" and in numerous
>television shows, died Dec. 22 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The cause of death was
>not reported.

That's a shame. He was one of those supporting actors you always
recognised, maybe it was the hair that did it. I like all those fifties
monster movies he made.

Jack Stalnaker

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Dec 27, 2002, 6:00:16 PM12/27/02
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The definitive Tobey movie for me was a 1955 drama called "It Came From
Beneath Faith Domergue" I believe. As I recall, it was about a giant octopus
with a strange attachment to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Seriously, the film didn't need the octopus gimmick. I was perfectly happy
just watching Tobey and Domergue sitting in a restaurant talking.

JCA


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Joe Gillis

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Dec 27, 2002, 6:50:58 PM12/27/02
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>From the Washington Post:
>
>Ken Tobey Actor
>
>Ken Tobey, 85, who had seven prolific decades playing small roles such as
>Capt.
>Patrick Hendry in the 1951 film "The Thing from Another World"

This was a small role?

Article must've been written by an intellectual carrot -- the mind boggles...

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Brockhurst Pertwee

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Dec 27, 2002, 6:56:11 PM12/27/02
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I had the pleasure of directing Mr. Tobey in the early eighties, and he
was a wonderful man - so willing and pleasant and affable. And, a
terrific actor.

ANIM8Rfsk

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Dec 27, 2002, 10:21:54 PM12/27/02
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<< From: cinema...@aol.comedy (Joe Gillis) >>


<< >Ken Tobey, 85, who had seven prolific decades playing small roles such as
>Capt.
>Patrick Hendry in the 1951 film "The Thing from Another World"

This was a small role?

Article must've been written by an intellectual carrot -- the mind boggles...
>>

When he gets to me he's gonna be really angry . . .

Stephen Cooke

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Dec 28, 2002, 10:37:43 AM12/28/02
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On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Jack Stalnaker wrote:

> The definitive Tobey movie for me was a 1955 drama called "It Came From
> Beneath Faith Domergue" I believe. As I recall, it was about a giant octopus
> with a strange attachment to the Golden Gate Bridge.
>
> Seriously, the film didn't need the octopus gimmick. I was perfectly happy
> just watching Tobey and Domergue sitting in a restaurant talking.

Speaking of Faith, I have a stunning original poster for her thriller Spin
a Dark Web on my wall, directed by Vernon Sewell with a cast that includes
such luminaries as Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson, Martin Benson and Robert
Arlen. Has anyone seen this? I feel sorta guilty about hanging a poster
for a film I haven't seen, but the image of Faith in a strapless red
dress, slit up to here with black lace gloves (elbow length) and a smoking
pistol was too juicy to resist.

It's a Columbia picture, so I have no idea if any of the cable channels
would have shown this.

swac

Dean Eaton

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Dec 28, 2002, 10:45:33 AM12/28/02
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Tobey was a solid, reliable,character actor. What would the movie military
have done without him?

My favorite Tobey moments would have to include his worrisome encounter with
new commander General Frank Savage in "Twelve O'Clock High", the "you can't
sleep here" scene with Cary Grant in "I was a Male War Bride", being tied
up by Margaret Sheridan (woo-woo!) in "The Thing", and facing down Ray
Harryhausen's terrifying beasties in "It Came from Beneath the Sea" and
"Beast from 20,000 Fathoms".

He was always a welcome presence in Joe Dante's Mighty Art Players stable.
You'd see his face and that shock of red hair, and murmur "Hey - Ken
Tobey!"

But no more. I'm getting too old for all these goodbyes.

Dean

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Kerry Duvall

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Dec 28, 2002, 10:54:20 AM12/28/02
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> He also starred in the TV show "Whirlybirds," playing > the co-owner of a
helicopter-for-hire.
>

I grew up watching "Whirlybirds" and as a kid I loved the show. It was
around the same era as Sky King.


Peter Krynicki

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Dec 29, 2002, 9:30:23 AM12/29/02
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"Kerry Duvall" <kdu...@charter.net> wrote in message news:<v0ri89l...@corp.supernews.com>...

Sheesh. He even showed up in two of the Davy Crockett episodes in the
series made by Disney. Once as one of Mike Fink's keelboat men and
once as one of the leaders at the Alamo.


hth
Pjk

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