Well, the comic did run for 86 years.
Found this photo on imdb from 1980.
Patrick played a psychiatric consultant at Maybury General Hospital for 1 season.
He was the captain of the Starship Enterprise 7 years later.
Patrick looks less authoritative and imposing in this role.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287248/mediaviewer/rm3376895233/?ref_=tt_ph_1
He looks like Steve Martin with his hair thinned.
In forgotten roles, I liked him as Ahab in Moby Dick.
When Brent Spiner released his album back in 1991, he covered “It’s a Sin (To Tell A Lie)” and was backed by "The Sun Spots (a play on the Ink Spots), who were Stewart, Frakes, Burton and Dorn. Stewart does a spoken interlude in the middle that is completely deadpan. Worth a listen.
Well…
Not worthy of its own thread, but it has been a terrible few days for Sci-Fi fans.
Actually, there is a thread for it: John Leeson, the Voice of K9, RIP
I haven’t read all of the posts, so this may have been mentioned already. But he was my favorite Ebeneezer Scrooge.
I place him second after Michael Caine in the Muppet Christmas Carol.
FYI, someone posted the entire performance on YouTube. I’m watching it tonight with friends.
He totally deserves it, but I was not expecting reaction to his death to reach almost Dolly Parton levels of tribute. I’m not expecting the same for Shatner.
Sir Patrick was one of the three best non-musical filmed Scrooges. Alastair Sim and George C. Scott were the others. Though, as much as I enjoy the TNT movie, I’d like someone to release a proshot of his one-man Christmas Carol show.
(As for musical Scrooges, my picks are Albert Finney, Sir Michael Caine, and Quincy Magoo.)
And speaking of musicals…hearing him sing in this sketch, it’s a shame that Sir Patrick didn’t do any musical theater that I know of. Guy had PIPES. Can you imagine how he would have done as Emile de Becque in South Pacific?
I liked Jim Carrey as well.
Had no idea he was that old. i guess I always think of him as he was on TNG.
I always thought he was a good bit younger than Ian, too.
I haven’t seen Stewart’s Scrooge but it’s going to be hard to beat that.
I have no idea how that movie worked so well.
Recent tweets:
Steven Miller: “One of the most impactful actors in the history of film, television and theater”
Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher): “Stephen Miller, on behalf of Star Trek, and everyone who knew and loved him, keep my Captain’s name out of your f–king Nazi mouth. He despised you, and everything you stand for.”
Good job, Wil.
Pictures from 1975 where Stewart wears a curly hairpiece. A film version of Hedda Gabler, with Glenda Jackson.
The play script has several mentions of the hair of Eilert Lovborg, the character who Stewart plays, so it can’t be played by a bald actor.
That was the role I was going to mention. Not a well- known one, and seems a bit strange with the leader of a White Power group in the US talking with a British accent, but he certainly made it work.
I especially liked the slow reveal of why the Green Room was so important. And the escape plan. Just watch out for the red laces.
Oh man, I wonder if they played it like that was how long they had been waiting.
I wonder if he was rooting for Stewart in “Green Room”.
Damn skippy!