# Clu Gulagers death inspired this thread

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 8, 2022, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clu-gulagers-death-inspired-this-thread/969289 "2022-08-08T04:23:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clu-gulagers-death-inspired-this-thread/969289/1 "2022-08-08T04:23:09Z")

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Have you all ever been watching an old show or movie and its standard fare, and everyone is doing what you expected acting wise, and then a character shows up and no one fucking told him or her??

Like someone just walked into the movie from a class with Marlon Brando on subverting acting expectations? I don’t nessecerily mean ‘method’. You can do what Im talking about and not be a method actor.

Well there are two I can think of off the top of my head.

Clu Gulager in his first film The Killers…I always felt Clu brought a level of unpredictability and entertainment to any role he played. Including stuff like Return of the Living Dead.

And Jack Palance in Shane…we spend the whole film watching a …good…film. Standard 50’s acting. Then Jack shows up and its like he just walked in from 1968.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4BmYEZ65B-E/hqdefault.jpg "Shane (1953) Jack Wilson Kills Frank "Stonewall" Torrey - HD 1440p") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BmYEZ65B-E)

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clu-gulagers-death-inspired-this-thread/969289/2 "2022-08-08T14:28:24Z")

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IMDb [page](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0347656/).

Most recent credit is a very minor figure in _Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood_. Tarantino does that a lot.

Did an episode of _Beavis and Butthead_. When you have such a long and varied career are credits like _I’m Gonna Git You Sucka_ and _Tapeheads_ considered unusual?

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**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:** [August 10, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clu-gulagers-death-inspired-this-thread/969289/3 "2022-08-10T15:55:36Z")

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I always got him mixed up with Richard Jaekel.

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**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clu-gulagers-death-inspired-this-thread/969289/4 "2022-08-10T18:37:43Z")

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Whenever I see Jaeckel…the only way I can differentiate him from people like Glenn Corbett, is to remember that Jaeckel was in The Dirty Dozen.

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**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:** [August 10, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clu-gulagers-death-inspired-this-thread/969289/5 "2022-08-10T20:12:27Z")

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I’d never confuse Glenn Corbet with Richard Jaekel. I’d confuse him with George Maharis. (Actually, I wouldn’t do that either, I’d just say “Oh, it’s Zephram Cochrane”.)