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James Karen RIP

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 4:13 am
by Richard M Roberts
James Karen sadly has passed away at the age of 94, a great, busy character actor, known to many in our group as a friend of Buster Keaton's who appeared with him on stage and in Samuel Beckett's FILM. He was also a wonderful raconteur and had great memories of so many actors with whom he worked.

Mark Evanier posted this video of James and his wife visiting Hal Holbrook backstage at a performance of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT in 2014 that is simply charming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7BhsWOELOU

Rest in Peace Jimmy.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Re: James Karen RIP

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 6:09 pm
by Richard M Roberts
And of course, Leonard Maltin has written a wonderful tribute:

http://leonardmaltin.com/remembering-my ... mmy-karen/


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Re: James Karen RIP

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 6:11 pm
by William Ferry
Being from New Jersey, I fondly think of him as "Mr. Pathmark". He hosted a wonderful doc about Keaton on the TCM archive box set of his first three MGM films.