# Actor Taylor Negron RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582 "2015-01-12T00:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/1 "2015-01-12T00:32:04Z")
Yeah, he’s not an award winner or headliner, but dammit [he was a solid guy with a huge resume](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624510/). He was one of the best of the group known as “That Guy.” ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/2 "2015-01-12T00:46:52Z")
You know, he was. When I heard he’d died, I actually thought “That guy?” He showed up randomly in so many different things. A total character actor. Godspeed, Taylor. Cancer is a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/3 "2015-01-12T00:55:16Z")
For some reason, CNN’s headline was something like, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High Actor Dies.” He was in that movie for like a minute and a half. I think his only line was, “Mr. Pizza Guy.” I liked him in _Easy Money_ with Rodney Dangerfield (he played Julio, marrying Rodney’s daughter … “Can I call you dad?”) and he was great as Milo, the psychotic strong arm for the chief baddie in _The Last Boy Scout_, which, I don’t care how bad a movie it is … it’s a great movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/4 "2015-01-12T01:03:45Z")
He was a funny guy. I always think of him saying [area rug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUrQoG7ED8). ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/5 "2015-01-12T01:03:50Z")
I remember him as the mail carrier in _Better Off Dead_. Looking over his prior roles, it seems he played a lot of deliverymen. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/6 "2015-01-12T02:25:22Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > He was a funny guy. I always think of him saying [area rug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUrQoG7ED8). +1 ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/7 "2015-01-12T02:46:39Z")
Was he the guy in a Woody Allen movie who , oh how should I put this, relieved himself on Woody’s sister? ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/8 "2015-01-12T12:27:38Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > For some reason, CNN’s headline was something like, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High Actor Dies.” > > He was in that movie for like a minute and a half. I think his only line was, “Mr. Pizza Guy.” When I first read the post title that’s exactly what I thought, he was that _Fast Times_ guy. But I was thinking of **[Robert Romanus](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001680/?ref_=tt_cl_t4)**, the guy who bangs (the inconceivably beautiful & totally naked) Jeniffer Jason Leigh. He was a star of that movie who seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth afterwards. IMDB doesn’t even have a photo of him! Now that I think of him, I always remember him as the drug-dealing doctor from _Young Doctors in Love_… ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/9 "2015-01-12T12:29:30Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > He was a funny guy. I always think of him saying [area rug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUrQoG7ED8). I always think of his speech to Elaine about her stinky hair: “The first thing we’re gonna do is flush the follicles with the five essential oils. Then, we put you under a vapor machine and then a heated cap. Then, we shampoo and shampoo and condition and condition. Then, we saturate the hair in diluted vinegar-- two parts vinegar, 10 parts water. Now, if that doesn’t work, we have one last resort. Tomato sauce.” ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/10 "2015-01-12T13:41:12Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > But I was thinking of **[Robert Romanus](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001680/?ref_=tt_cl_t4)**, the guy who bangs (the inconceivably beautiful & totally naked) Jeniffer Jason Leigh. He was a star of that movie who seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth afterwards. IMDB doesn’t even have a photo of him… Looking at his imdb, Romanus played Basil Fawlty in _Fawlty Tower Oxnard_. WTF? I never heard of it and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to see it. Was it even aired on television? Apparently they made 7 episodes with the original scripts. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/11 "2015-01-12T15:51:19Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > He was a funny guy. I always think of him saying [area rug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUrQoG7ED8). Oh, _that_ guy. Thankfully, that is the only thing I remember about the movie “Punchline” (other than how utterly awful and not funny it was). ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/12 "2015-01-13T03:30:33Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > the guy who bangs (the inconceivably beautiful & totally naked) Jeniffer Jason Leigh. Watching that scene over and over was puberty for me. Oh right, Taylor Negron… It is sad he has died. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/13 "2015-01-13T04:48:03Z")
Posted this in the wrong thread earlier… He was also the convenience-store clerk in River’s Edge. First scene with dialogue. Daniel Roebuck, another That Guy, tries to buy beer without ID, and Negron won’t sell him. Short scene, perfectly performed. It could be used as an acting exercise. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/14 "2015-01-13T16:26:08Z")
“Allison, I’m bad! I am SO bad” ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/15 "2015-01-13T16:28:21Z")
He also had a bit part on Friends, playing a restaurant owner who had bad tomato sauce, so Monica tried to show him how to make it. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/16 "2015-01-13T17:01:17Z")
I thought he was great in his one scene in Stuart Little, where he’s selling clothes for the mouse (from their collection of some action figure/doll clothes). His and Geena Davis’ ability to make it all seem totally normal, and his way of being the Platonic ideal of “the guy who sells kids clothes,” really made it. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/17 "2015-01-13T20:08:56Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > "… the inconceivably beautiful … " Regarding _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ the inconceivably beautiful description belongs to Phoebe Cates. (imo) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/18 "2015-01-13T23:23:33Z")
Gave a whole new meaning to the phrase “Moving in Stereo.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/19 "2015-01-13T23:31:48Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Looking at his imdb, Romanus played Basil Fawlty in _Fawlty Tower Oxnard_. WTF? I never heard of it and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to see it. Was it even aired on television? Apparently they made 7 episodes with the original scripts. Bleh. I have no idea who even saw it. Never heard of it before. This might be a clue, “Production Co: Los Angeles Film School.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582/20 "2015-01-13T23:32:40Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Was he the guy in a Woody Allen movie who , oh how should I put this, relieved himself on Woody’s sister? He’s not credited as being in **Crimes and Misdemeanors** so the answer would be No. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-taylor-negron-rip/709582.md?page=2)