Kevin McCarthy

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LysanderSpooner
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Conspirator for: 16 years 12 weeks
Posted on: September 14, 2010 - 4:19am

Just this year, I got "Body Snatchers" from Netflix.  I wanted to watch it for the umpteenth time.  This disk had a nice, but short, interview with McCarthy.   I was still holding out hope that he would be immortal like the college professor, Prof. Walter Jameson, he played in "The Twilight Zone". 

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Gardner Goldsmith
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Posted on: September 14, 2010 - 9:50am #1

LysanderSpooner wrote:

Just this year, I got "Body Snatchers" from Netflix.  I wanted to watch it for the umpteenth time.  This disk had a nice, but short, interview with McCarthy.   I was still holding out hope that he would be immortal like the college professor, Prof. Walter Jameson, he played in "The Twilight Zone". 

He was one of the real good ones. In an article published about a year ago in "Cemetery Dance", Ed Gorman mentioned that he had been friends with Kevin for years and he was amazed by the man's power to keep doing films. He starred in a production just a couple of years ago, a film written and directed by Anthony Hopkins. He played himself in it. Brilliant and beautifully scene in a convertible with Hopkins.

After I read Ed's piece, I thought about contacting Mr. McCarthy, because I had an idea for a short film that would round out all the "Body Snatcher" films. I wrote to Ed, and found out that the article had been written more than a year before publication, and that Kevin wasn't doing as well.

McCarthy was one of those actors who never seemed to crave attention, just a good story. Can't ask for anything more.