# Happy 91st Birthday to Lloyd the Bartender from The Shining **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-91st-birthday-to-lloyd-the-bartender-from-the-shining/817974 "2018-07-16T00:22:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-91st-birthday-to-lloyd-the-bartender-from-the-shining/817974/1 "2018-07-16T00:22:18Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVVGzEbJC0) He is a great actor and even better in an earlier Kubrick film The Paths of Glory. Happy Birthday, Joe! Joe Turkel > **[Joe Turkel - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877185/)** > > Joe Turkel. Actor: The Shining. Joseph Turkel was an American character actor. He is known for his roles in Stanley Kubrick's films The Killing, Paths of Glory, and The Shining, and as Dr. Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner. He also had roles in three of... ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-91st-birthday-to-lloyd-the-bartender-from-the-shining/817974/2 "2018-07-16T00:25:38Z")
If he used Method Acting to prepare for the role in The Shining, he’ll probably still be around in another 91 years. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-91st-birthday-to-lloyd-the-bartender-from-the-shining/817974/3 "2018-07-16T03:27:39Z")
I love him as Mr. Tyrell in _Blade Runner_. He’s wonderfully creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-91st-birthday-to-lloyd-the-bartender-from-the-shining/817974/4 "2018-07-16T04:30:07Z")
Sometimes when I go into a business and it’s deserted, I’ll say “a little slow tonight, idn’t it, Lloyd?” No one’s recognized the reference yet, but I live in hope. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-91st-birthday-to-lloyd-the-bartender-from-the-shining/817974/5 "2018-07-16T04:51:00Z")
“Your credit’s no good here Mr. Torrance.” Personally I’ve always liked the performance of the waiter who spills the drink on Jack when he realizes that he is the former caretaker of the Overlook, something so creepy and unnerving in his performance and the way he delivers his dialogue with such formality despite the horror of who he is and what he is saying. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-91st-birthday-to-lloyd-the-bartender-from-the-shining/817974/6 "2018-07-16T11:27:23Z")
Joe Turkel’s been in plenty of films. I was surprised to find that he had a part in the Bert I. Gordon cheapie _Tormented_ that was very properly skewered by MST3K. When they put that film on one of their DVDs, as an extra they invited Turkel in and interviewed him about it. He also had a big part in Stanley Kubrick’s **The Killing**. and he played the sheriff in the wonderfully awful Bert I. Gordon film **Village of the Giants**. for some reason, a lot of his film appearances were uncredited. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-91st-birthday-to-lloyd-the-bartender-from-the-shining/817974/7 "2018-07-16T11:49:01Z")
> [@pool](#): > > “Your credit’s no good here Mr. Torrance.” > > Personally I’ve always liked the performance of the waiter who spills the drink on Jack when he realizes that he is the former caretaker of the Overlook, something so creepy and unnerving in his performance and the way he delivers his dialogue with such formality despite the horror of who he is and what he is saying. Philip Stone > **[Philip Stone | Actor](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0832104/)** > > Known for: The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom I agree. He was so nonchalantly racist and homicidal. He was also in A Clockwork Orange, Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom and Thunderball.