# Who's Dead, Tiger Lily? "Phil Moskowitz"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-dead-tiger-lily-phil-moskowitz/246846>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 24, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-dead-tiger-lily-phil-moskowitz/246846 "2004-05-24T18:34:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-dead-tiger-lily-phil-moskowitz/246846/1 "2004-05-24T18:34:42Z")

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The prolific (and very good-looking!) Japanese movie actor [Tatsuya Mihashi](http://imdb.com/name/nm0586227/), best known in the U.S. for starring in the film that was dubbed into _What’s Up Tiger Lily?_ (he was also in _Tora! Tora! Tora!_), has died.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-dead-tiger-lily-phil-moskowitz/246846/2 "2004-05-24T21:24:45Z")

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If everyone in the audience who believes claps their hands, I’ll have more bullets in my gun.

They just don’t write dialog like that any more.

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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-dead-tiger-lily-phil-moskowitz/246846/3 "2004-05-24T23:39:03Z")

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I at least hope he found the recipe for the perfect egg salad sandwich.

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**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-dead-tiger-lily-phil-moskowitz/246846/4 "2004-05-24T23:39:46Z")

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He plotzed.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-dead-tiger-lily-phil-moskowitz/246846/5 "2004-05-24T23:49:31Z")

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“Roman pig! Saracen dog! Saxon cow!”

“Don’t use embalming fluid - I want to be stuffed with crabmeat!”

“Mom?!?!?!”

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-dead-tiger-lily-phil-moskowitz/246846/6 "2004-05-25T00:09:10Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> “Roman pig! Saracen dog! Saxon cow!”

“Turkish Taffy!”

Poor guy, all those years onscreen and he’s remembered for being _MST3K_’d by Woody Allen.