Passages

Discuss film culture and criticism
Post Reply
Message
Author
User avatar
okcmaxk
Joined: Tue Jan 05, 2016 4:37 am

Re: Passages

#13626 Post by okcmaxk »

Never Cursed wrote: Fri Sep 18, 2026 8:53 pm Gerrit Graham - Beef in Phantom of the Paradise
Steals Used Cars for most of the film and caps it off with the greatest stunt by a non-professional (besides a house falling on Tom Green).

The best scene in Greetings is his JFK monologue, and he’s equally great in Hi, Mom!.
beamish14
Joined: Fri May 18, 2018 7:07 pm

Re: Passages

#13627 Post by beamish14 »

Never Cursed wrote: Fri Sep 18, 2026 8:53 pm Gerrit Graham - Beef in Phantom of the Paradise
Being the husband of Jenny Agutter in Child’s Play 2 was brilliant casting.

I’ve always been curious about how he earned all those writing credits on Disney animated films like The Little Mermaid. He also wrote Robert Downey, Sr.’s episode of the 1980’s Twilight Zone revival
User avatar
flyonthewall2983
Joined: Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:31 pm
Location: Indiana
Contact:

Re: Passages

#13628 Post by flyonthewall2983 »

I remember him in Parker Lewis Can’t Lose
User avatar
colinr0380
Joined: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:30 pm
Location: Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, UK

Re: Passages

#13629 Post by colinr0380 »

I think the first thing I saw him in as a kid was as a bad guy in Police Academy 6: City Under Siege!

Of course his rock star Beef in De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (and his big musical number. With the same electrical fizzing and crackling sound effects that were later used in Carrie!) is the big one, but he also turns up as the expendable victim trying to save Julie Christie from her computerised house in Donald Cammell's Demon Seed.

And I presume at least domino will fondly remember him turning up as the father of the family in the 1986 horror double bill of TerrorVision and Chopping Mall (doing sort of the opposite of Demon Seed, and letting the killer robots run amok!)

Plus he is apparently somewhere in Louis Malle's 1978 underage prostitute film Pretty Baby!
Post Reply