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@@cwcsquared Yes, that all-too-common malady Typos-Я-Us. 🙂

You're right about that last part, he's one of my all-time favorite actors. But the truth is ~97% of people below age 25 have never watched Dr. Strangelove and probably 60% of that group has never even heard of it. And that's with being generous that maybe they'd at least heard the title. There's a massive majority of people my age who all think old B&W films are icky and boring by default.....

You're dead right. That was the first movie I ever saw him in, and I memorised his face immediately because I was entranced.

​@@oldaccount9563Dude, I'm 22 and I own Dr. Strangelove on 4K. Matter of fact, I own about twenty B&W movies on 4K, because the HDR actually helps B&W films more than it does color imo. Anyway, I digress. Point is, there's probably a lot more Gen Z cinephiles than you think.

So true! I adore him in that role.

Peter Sellers playing 3 rolls helped as well! But I agree George C Scott was one of the greatest actors of all time!!

The cast of Dr. Strangelove was all around stellar. Yes George C. Scott was hilarious but Sterling Hayden as Gen. Jack Ripper..... WOW! Another great actor in a smaller but wonderful roll was Keenan Wynn as the sergeant who shoots the Coke machine. Can you ever forget Slim Pickens as the pilot? Everyone was great in this movie.

Little known fact: Scott did not want to play the part as a buffoon so Kubrick tricked him. He told Scott to play it over the top as a joke, with Scott not knowing it would actually be used in the finished product.

@jesseanderson1904made me laugh out loud! :D

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@@thisisastory We get it. You're a shut-in neckbeard who's watched nothing but anime and Chris Nolan movies and stumbled upon Dr. Strangelove, and, thanks to the terminal solipsism all dire nerds have, think that you're the only person on the planet who's heard of an actor who's had a long and storied career

I don't consider George C. Scott a "movie star", but a pure actor and craftsman. I mean that as a compliment.

I think you have to be of the younger generations not to have heard of Scott. He was a huge actor that took great roles, just knowing he's in it is good enough to want to see it. Growing up in the70s I probably only saw him in later movies, starting with Patton. I was just talking about The Challenging with my young daughter last night because we were talking about "good" ghost stories that involve a mystery a ghost wants solved. We're looking for scary movies to watch together for Halloween. I even told her about George C. Scott. Was it a coincidence this video popped up in my feed? Or was Google listening in? Either way, I need to look into The Changeling to see if its appropriate for a pre-teen. I haven't seen it in many years but it made a lifelong impression on me as a kid. The water in the bath-tub scene... Scott yelling... "What in the hell do you want from me?!". He's such a good actor, doing temperamental, confused, and complex emotions.

Awesome! I love his movies. How I wish I'd seen him on stage! Would love to hear any stories or memories.

Unknown in the sense he isnt really remembers or talked about as a great actor.

That was, if I may be allowed, one of his most hardcore and difficult to watch roles without getting personally involved. Brilliant? I am no judge, but I will never forget him in that film.

@vivatotti10 Agreed. But part of that is that young people don't watch older movies, because they're too slow for kids raised after the 80s and MTV, which completely revised the pacing of all movies. You have to have a parent or GP who takes the kid and has them watch older movies from a young age, or else they expect different things from movies, AND TV for that matter. I honestly find it hard to watch TV shows from before the 90s, even though I grew up watching first-run Bewitched and Star Trek (TOS). MTV, oddly enough, is one of the four BIG changes in film -- Talkies (obviously), Method Acting, the MPAA, and MTV. Each of those four changed the nature of movies before and after. As a result of that pacing change, older people (e.g., who were 30+ in 1980 -- fewer and fewer these days) don't like "new" movies, and younger people don't have the patience to let things develop... "Is anything gonna HAPPEN, here? They've had these two blabbing for five freaking minutes now, with no cuts...!") 😀 And I **have** to admit, it's understandable. I LOVE the old 70s Three/Four Musketeers -- they are among the best films ever done, but I was watching them both about 10y ago and they felt slow to ME, and I've got a foot in both camps, being about 20 when MTV came on the scene.

​@@appropriate-channelname3049Not true.

@vivatotti10 Thats like saying Ted Williams is unknown just because young people dont read history. Ted Williams was Baseball legend and the last player have a batting average over .400. and won a triple crown. He is in the Baseball Hall of fame. He missed several years as he served in the Navy during WWII and in the Marines during the Korean War. He is one of the greatest players ever and a patriot. He was celebrated during his career and after his career. Just because young people dont read any more doesnt mean someone is unknown. It means young people think they know more than they do

Was he ver sorry that you got murdered?

@@dbldekr Nailed it

Why does it smell like bullshit?

Could it be because you are simply a cynical person at this point in your life for some reason? Who hurt you? I apologize on their behalf. We're all actually doing the best we can. I'd like to humbly suggest that you may do well to change you cynicism. Personally, I find great joy on going out of my way to be a blessing to a random stranger in need (and there's plenty out there where I live) and always choose happiness whenever I can, as well as focusing on the oy that comes from being happy for someone else. I'm happy for this person who got to meet George C. Scott as a child. Call me gullible if you want, but it doesn't really matter whether this particular commenter is telling the truth or not really. It's our very different reactions and/or responses that count most. I would encourage you to do your best to remember to always know from whence your blessings come and give thanks for it all, even the things that seem negative in the moment and may even linger with you physically, emotionally or otherwise. Always look for what good can come out of disappointment and struggle. Love our Creator as you love yourself and love your neighbor as yourself too! Your neighbor is everyone who isn't you. Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Practicing these things helps you cease to have any enemies. If you make a practice of this you'll also find that the natural side effect practicing this lifestyle daily is finding Heaven within. Love everyone, for we are all one with our Creator and He speaks to us through our hearts and consciences and check in with Him when we sleep each day, but we don't generally remember this. Yet, God sees everything we think, do or say. It's the little things we do when no one's watching that helps define our characters. Are we made of fear, anger and cynicism, or love, peace and joy? Happiness is a choice we can make each day. We can also practice forgiving others easily and not being so hard on others or ourselves. Also choosing to be a blessing to others wherever we can is something that gets addictive in how good it feels. I hope you will heed my words. I'm merely God's humble scribe, and this is all I was told to share with you. Share these words with another if you'd like to help spread this feeling of brotherly love with someone you care about, and/or just people at rando. I wish you and us all well as one human family. People will embrace this reality worldwide soon as it goes viral. Get on board early, why don't ya? Be well, and be the love you wish to see in this world and attract into your life., because according to the law of attraction we will always attract what we are and never simply what we desire for the long term, until we become that which we are trying to attract anyway. Love is the answer. God is love. Heaven is within. We are all one. I wish you well and hope you learned something wonderfully positive useful to your soul from these words I've shared with you. Peace out. @@noahboy7309

If that's true, you lucky dog!👍

Yes! I love that moment too

Believable.

Great movie.

Nice catch ! great comment !

Thank you!

You forgot to mention Spencer Tracey😉

@@tsonfire1 To me Spencer Tracy was one of the greatest actors who ever lived. I tried to keep my choices slightly off the beaten path but thank you for your rely. Spencer Tracy was a legend and must never be forgotten. 👍

Excellent list of actors.

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One of my favorite films, and my favorite of his performances. :)

a CLASSIC

that opening scene he directed is fucking POWERFUL carries the entire film on its momentum

You got that right, brother! He was hilarious.

Great art - whether it is evidenced by the craft displayed by an actor - or in a visual artistic triumph on canvas done in oil - is timeless as it's not made to pander, not born of imitation but born of talent, genius and creativity which - is always recognized, appreciated and loved by those with eyes to see, a mind to comprehend and a heart and soul capable of responding in kind - to the intelligence and love vested in it by the creator - the artist.

One of my favorite bits of trivia from Dr. Strangelove was when George C. Scott trips and falls in the "war room" and gets right up maintaining his character all the way through and not messing up his dialogue. Stanley Kubrick decided to keep it in the final print as it felt natural.

Agreed. Phenomenal!!

Alastair Sim 1951 is the best scrooge ever imo

Yes…. My favorite too! 🎄

Yes. I saw it on TV when I was a young teen. It remains the best.

Scott came close, but Alastair Sim's Scrooge is still the best. Even George C. Scott said so, I remember an interview with him at the time. "There's no way anyone's going to top Alastair Sim, all I can do is approch the role from a different angle. So I'm playing him as a slightly world-weary cynical businessman." It sure worked for Scott, a very good version of "CC."

I agree: Cagney was great, but I'd contend that he overacts (hams it up) in a couple of his brief scenes in this piece!

Scott was great. If you found that Schrader film absorbing, check out “Blue Collar”.

@@TheEleatic Interesting. I can't say that I remember this coming out. Thanks.

I second this. Blue Collar is great.

Damn, you picked a choice one from the filmography.

Oh yeah! Love that idea.

@ChrisWhalenCPA Scott would have been too strong for the part. He'd have overwhelmed the other two leads. The film called for three characters in some kind of contentious balance. Scheider and Dreyfus would have seemed diminished by his presence.

@@vestibulate I disagree. Great actors like Scott can temper their performance when necessary.

I could see that.

@@vestibulate True !

He does play Lee Cobb’s character in The Exorcist 3, which probably added to the confusion.

@@SuperAlfern If memory serves, he also played Lee J. Cobb's role in the '97 remake of 12 Angry Men!

@@weirdcinemashow I looked it up and youre right, he played Juror #3.

Four words: They might be Giants.

I can’t believe that anyone doesn’t know him. Dr. Strangelove, Hospital, Taps, The Flim Flam Man, Patton, The Hustler. Performance after performance. He died to long ago and too soon.

@@gwarren6386 " The Hanging Tree, Anatomy of a Murder, The Yellow Rolls Royce, The New Centurions, Rage, Oklahoma Crude, The Hindenburg, The Changeling, The Formula, Gloria "

Thanks for that comment. Very interesting as I remember the movies that I saw with my dad. Rear Window was playing at the Tivoli which was a Theater that played classic movies. I don't think I was expecting it to be anything great. But it certainly was. People really should make a point of watching some of the old classic movies. Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one I didn't think I was going to like. Incredibly good storytelling was something that a movie being in black and white couldn't take away.

Nice man,,nice!👍

I saw him do Willy Loman on Broadway- twice, in 1974. At the end of the play everyone in the theater were sobbing out loud- SOBBING!!!.. it was shocking!!. He gave 150 per cent of himself each performance. I remember when Willy was planting seeds in the floor and crying i was 3 feet from Scott in my seat ( it was theater in the round) and there were two faucets of water gushing out of his eyes like a fire hydrant in the city in the summer. Lee J Cobb created the role of Willy Loman in "Death Of A Salesman" on Broadway in 1947 and it is a legendary performance , only equaled by Scott. Cobb did a television production of Death of A Salesman way way back but you can find it on the Internet. Looking back , Scott was our greatest actor but his stage acting was on another level of bravura , magisterial excellence.

Good comparison, I didn't think of Cobb, who did a lot of Westerns, but he had a great presence too. You felt they were in charge in their scenes.... even if their dialogue was minimal.

Lee J Cobb definitely a force of nature in 12 Angry Men and one of the best movies of all time On the Waterfront.

I think that is a good comparison.

I don't think anyone portrayed working-class rage and frustration as well as Lee J. Cobb. He could do any role well but the angry blue-collar ones seemed to suit him the most.

Fantastic comment! Thank you so much for sharing that!

The irony of old "blood & guts" General Patton, he took the most ground and held it, and had the least number of casualties of any general in history... Hated by Eisenhower and so many others because he was the best general the US ever had and was outspoken to the point where he really knew the dirty secrets of WWII and was about to reveal them... It was no "accident" Eisenhower wanted him gone, Patton's wife knew he was finished off in the hospital. The evidence for his assassination has been well documented in several award-winning books, even documentaries that showed how Patton and Montgomery were told to stand-down and let the Russians enter Berlin first, thereby creating the 40 year trillion dollar Cold War. George C. Scott later found out well after the movie was made, and of course he was in the sequel TV movie. As they say, the first casualty of war is truth!

Just watched that movie first time last week! lol

i don't remember the ignominious car accident in the movie Patton

There is a made for TV movie “The Last Days of Patton” that was a sequel. It includes the car accident and his time in the hospital. Said to have come out in 1986.

Oh, definitely

Perfectly said

I'm a huge classic film fan. Among several other actors, I am particularly fascinated with the life and career of Ava Gardner. She was a strong woman but was also very unhealthy in some ways, including being drawn to abusive men. And she claimed in her autobiography tohave been physically abused by Scott during their relationship in the mid-to-late 1960s, almost always when he had been drinking. This was corroborated by her friends. Scott never responded directly to it, only having a statement released that he hadn't read the book. I, too, think Scott was a brilliant actor and a towering figure in the New Hollywood era of film. But he could be a pretty horrific human being.

​@@jsharp1701I read the Ava Gardner bio too, and still remember being quite disturbed by her stories about Scott.

WTF are you talking about? I'm 70 years old and I don't remember a time when Americans routinely played Englishmen. Also, while Scott was a magnificent actor, don't you think claiming he was generally considered to be the greatest in his time is a real stretch since Marlon Brando was a contemporary? Also, since Daniel Day Lewis retired, what Brit would you consider superior to Sean Penn or Tom Hanks? Not criticizing, I just get curious about conflicting opinions while trying to learn from others.

Well said!

That's very kind of you, thank you!

yes yes yes

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Yes, his gruff voice gave a completely different layer to the character than any actor before or since has managed to duplicate.

And the fact that the script was one of the most accurate to the books made it even better.

Yess, very much so. My favorite of the numerous films made

Wow!

Fantastic.

I envy you. I watched Cobb's great performance when it first ran on TV and have never forgotten it. Thank you for not comparing them by saying he "created the role" BUT... There can be more than one great performance of a great role.

Ironic how both him and Cobb play the same roles, from Willy Loman to Juror 3 (12 Angry Men). Heck, both were in the Exorcist series....

Nonsense.

Im pretty sure gen xers know GCS and willing to bet more millennials know than you realize

@@prilljazzatlanta5070 Right. Who hasn't seen Patton or Dr. Strangelove?

Gen x here.. I have heard of him.

Gen Xers should and would know Scott. Not only was he still doing movies when we were growing up, but the TV movie reruns alone, featuring movies with Scott in them, were aplenty back then. Please don't group us in with Y and Z in terms of pop culture, we might as well be on different planets when it comes to that. :]

That is a great scene. Chayefsky and Scott fought while shooting because Chayefsky wanted Scott to play the role for comedy and Scott wanted to do, well, what he ended up doing haha. I can’t imagine him playing the role any other way

Duvall absolutely nailed his performance in 'The Apostle'.

He was not a movie star. Some movie stars were fantastic actors and some were not.

I saw Flim Flam Man as a kid, too. It made a huge impression. Blew my little mind.

What a combo for a double feature.

@@georgestreng True! It did show George C. Scott's range.

These were the exact same movies that came to define Scott for me. I don't know if Patton or Dr. Strangelove was my introduction, but he was really something.

And his version of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Thank you very much for your kind words and donation, and although you regret it, thank you for your service as well.

Thank you so much! That’s really kind of you. I will keep going

I must agree, watched 3 times!

Hear, hear. I'm a connoisseur of stuff like this, and this piece is as good as it gets

Thank you so much!

I think these guys got into the booze because they quickly realized that the business of make believe could never come close to the people they were portraying. And they also hated what the average people viewed as great in the entertainment business like popcorn flicks when they're trying to be a lot more profound. So they needed an escape from it. If you need escapism from the business of escapism, you're probably in real trouble. And they didn't have the mental tools to deal with it in a healthy way.

@@BigBadJerryRogers I don't that was it in the case of the Hellraiser bunch, with the exception of Richard Burton, perhaps. Reed, O'Toole, and Harris really were just those kinds of natural, charming drunkards. They would've been drinking anyway, I reckon.

@@UmbrellaGent Id say what I'm describing applies to tons of actors by this point, with the drugs as well. And it depended on how someone like Oliver Reed happened to be feeling that day, there's a lot of stories about him not being so cheery and getting physical and being abrasive. He made it clear he didn't think acting was a very manly thing to be doing.

@@BigBadJerryRogers Yes, that's fair.

@@UmbrellaGent Yes, they would've been drinking anyway...

I hear you! I don't know how many times I've put "Patton" in the VCR just to watch the speech and the next thing you know it's three hours later! There's no such thing as a short visit with Scott's General Patton!

They Might Be Giants is perhaps my favorite of his!

@@thisisastory Too late! You said, "The Hospital"!!

Yes, Islands in The Stream! Very poignant.

As soon as you said "by all means" I began reading your comment in George C Scott voice.

Yes, They Might Be Giants where Scott’s character, who thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes, tells Joanne Woodward, playing his psychiatrist, that she should try to think of herself as adequate. It’s the best.

No kidding!!

@ georgemckenn . . . Ur absolutely correct

It could be the after effects of the war. I think actors back then had a way about them that people today don’t seem to have. Some do. Oddly enough Jim Carrey comes to mind

they are now effeminized

@@errorsofmodernism7331 Why is it only incels complain about manliness these days?

I have seen a few of his movies great stuff!

Because these days Hollywood only goes for (no good stories) Flim-Flam , Empty Action Movies ! - @@thisisastory

Thank you I appreciate it!

Totally agree. Best version, so much so that I can't get into any other version of that story. 😅

@@TerryLightfoot I also really appreciate that this version doesn't shy away from the political and economic realities of the Victorian Era that most versions tend to downplay. I really feel its the closest to Dickens original tale.

@@TerryLightfoot - 'Patton' was probably his best-known acting role and movie, but he was great in anything he did !

Gen X would also be familiar with his son Campbell Scott - whom I always liked and who projected the polar opposite persona to his father, having this quiet, soft-spoken, gentle, introspective kind of demeanour, which perhaps got him cast as romantic leads in big films like "Dying Young" (which got a ton of press as it was a Julia Roberts film, not long after "Pretty Woman"), "Singles" and as a sympathetic gay character in "Longtime Companion." Campbell didn't really inherit George's looks either, fortunately for him, and back in the day he was quite attractive. So he was cast in quite a different way to George. I think with a few of the right films here and there, or a hit TV series, Campbell might have become a bigger star than he did. But perhaps that's the way he likes it.

I agree absolutely! I liked the pretty boys and action guys when young (and, hey, I still do), but now deeply appreciate the really good actors who bring so much to every role. The quirky ones too. I love the ones you mention, also - Donald Pleasance, Elisha Cook, the incredible Richard Widmark! So many wonderful actors.

@@SMtWalkerS I totally agree. And I discovered that so many things that they were in were treasures. A few years back I watched Bad Day at Black Rock for the first time and Borgnine was such an incredibly nasty bad guy. Then you watch him in Marty and he morphs into this gentle, sensitive man - a totally different person. Widmark could do the same.

@@TonyBoyOhBoy Agree! Incredible actors. Widmark throwing the old lady down the stairs - yikes! George Kennedy was SO good too. Such a great heavy.