Wally Campo, the Roger Corman regular who did his best Det. Joe Friday impersonation as Sgt. Joe Fink — and also served as the narrator — in the original The Little Shop of Horrors, has died. He was 99.
Campo died Jan. 14 of natural causes in Studio City, his son, musician Tony Campodonico, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Campo also played a goofball in Monte Hellman‘s Beast From Haunted Cave (1959) and appeared for director Burt Topper in Hell Squad (1958), Tank Commandos (1959) — where he was top-billed — and the Victor Buono-starring The Strangler (1964).
Campo showed up in the Corman-directed Machine-Gun Kelly (1958), Ski Troop Attack (1960) and Tales of Terror (1962) and in the Corman-produced Devil’s Angels (1967). Many of his movies were made at the filmmaker’s low-budget American International Pictures.
His acting credits also included Edward Dmytryk’s Warlock (1959), the Vincent Price-starring Master of the World (1961) and Shock Corridor (1963), directed by Sam Fuller.
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Campo died Jan. 14 of natural causes in Studio City, his son, musician Tony Campodonico, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Campo also played a goofball in Monte Hellman‘s Beast From Haunted Cave (1959) and appeared for director Burt Topper in Hell Squad (1958), Tank Commandos (1959) — where he was top-billed — and the Victor Buono-starring The Strangler (1964).
Campo showed up in the Corman-directed Machine-Gun Kelly (1958), Ski Troop Attack (1960) and Tales of Terror (1962) and in the Corman-produced Devil’s Angels (1967). Many of his movies were made at the filmmaker’s low-budget American International Pictures.
His acting credits also included Edward Dmytryk’s Warlock (1959), the Vincent Price-starring Master of the World (1961) and Shock Corridor (1963), directed by Sam Fuller.
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- 1/26/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The cops-and-robbers formula is as reliable a formula as there is in entertainment, regardless of the medium. There are typically two approaches to these kinds of stories. The first is to focus on a detective, who could be anything from stolidly righteous (think Jack Webb's Sergeant Joe Friday) to relentlessly corrupt (they don't get much baser than Harvey Keitel's "Bad Lieutenant"). The other is to zero in on the crook, who could range from a principled thief in the Robin Hood mold to the charismatic murderers of Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas." There are endless possibilities in either approach, but, generally, a writer has...
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- 7/25/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Philip Baker Hall, who is known to Seinfeld fans as Lt. Bookman, the library detective, to Curb Your Enthusiasm fans as the ultra-serious Dr. Morrison and to movie fans as any in a long list of memorable characters in films such as Hard Eight, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Dogville, The Insider, The Truman Show, Rush Hour and many more, has died, according to his friend and neighbor, the Los Angeles Times sportswriter Sam Farmer. He was 90.
Hall will be remembered by the legions of Seinfeld fans for playing one of the most popular one-off characters the show ever saw. He was Lt. Bookman, the library detective who tracked Jerry Seinfeld down for not returning a book the “joy boy” — as Bookman called him, among other things — had checked out in 1971. His diatribe about Seinfeld and his “good-time buddies” is chock-full of quotable lines that still tickle fans of the show.
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Hall will be remembered by the legions of Seinfeld fans for playing one of the most popular one-off characters the show ever saw. He was Lt. Bookman, the library detective who tracked Jerry Seinfeld down for not returning a book the “joy boy” — as Bookman called him, among other things — had checked out in 1971. His diatribe about Seinfeld and his “good-time buddies” is chock-full of quotable lines that still tickle fans of the show.
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- 6/13/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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Philip Baker Hall put his stamp (yes, pun intended) on Seinfeld in 1991, cementing his spot as arguably the greatest one-time guest to drop by the iconic NBC sitcom.
The film and television actor whose career spanned decades died Sunday. He was 90.
Hall stole the show when he played library investigations officer Lt. Joe Bookman in the season three episode “The Library.”
Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) learns that the copy of Tropic of Cancer he checked out from the New York Public Library in 1971 was never returned, and he has a fine on the books. The case is turned over to Lt. Bookman, who Hall plays perfectly as a Sgt. Joe Friday-type from the police series, Dragnet.
Hall appears in three different scenes in the episode, but the first is a Seinfeld classic. Lt. Bookman pays a visit to Jerry’s apartment, where the...
Philip Baker Hall put his stamp (yes, pun intended) on Seinfeld in 1991, cementing his spot as arguably the greatest one-time guest to drop by the iconic NBC sitcom.
The film and television actor whose career spanned decades died Sunday. He was 90.
Hall stole the show when he played library investigations officer Lt. Joe Bookman in the season three episode “The Library.”
Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) learns that the copy of Tropic of Cancer he checked out from the New York Public Library in 1971 was never returned, and he has a fine on the books. The case is turned over to Lt. Bookman, who Hall plays perfectly as a Sgt. Joe Friday-type from the police series, Dragnet.
Hall appears in three different scenes in the episode, but the first is a Seinfeld classic. Lt. Bookman pays a visit to Jerry’s apartment, where the...
- 6/13/2022
- by Ryan Parker
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rob Smedley Feb 8, 2019
We investigate the humble TV detective's choice of outerwear by looking back at these 10 very famous coats.
This updated article was first posted in July 2013. It comes from Den of Geek UK.
Luther returned to BBC One over the New Year, and didn't he look cool as he stalked around London's streets like a man with a grudge against a bus? That's not just because he's played by Idris Elba and your mind has subconsciously associated him with the cool job of piloting giant robots in Pacific Rim, oh no. It's because, like all the best detectives, he's wearing a cool coat.
The coat has become the shorthand for the detective, not only telling you a lot about the copper wearing it but about the era they're wearing it in. So, in a not at all blatant rip-off of the BBC's A History of the World...
We investigate the humble TV detective's choice of outerwear by looking back at these 10 very famous coats.
This updated article was first posted in July 2013. It comes from Den of Geek UK.
Luther returned to BBC One over the New Year, and didn't he look cool as he stalked around London's streets like a man with a grudge against a bus? That's not just because he's played by Idris Elba and your mind has subconsciously associated him with the cool job of piloting giant robots in Pacific Rim, oh no. It's because, like all the best detectives, he's wearing a cool coat.
The coat has become the shorthand for the detective, not only telling you a lot about the copper wearing it but about the era they're wearing it in. So, in a not at all blatant rip-off of the BBC's A History of the World...
- 2/8/2019
- Den of Geek
Joe Friday made television history by focusing on the facts when investigating crimes.
But for most viewers, the facts -- and sometimes even the case of the hour -- are not as entertaining as the relationships between cops.
Whether played for laughs or part of a serious crime drama, cop partnerships are central to almost every crime drama.
Check out our picks for the 17 best partnerships and share your own.
1. The Andy Griffith Show: Andy Taylor and Barney Fife Andy Taylor and Barney Fife were one of the funniest, and best known, cop partnerships of the early 1960s. Andy was the straight-laced, serious sheriff trying to raise his son to be an upstanding citizen, while Barney was goofy, silly, and accident-prone. This duo was so popular that ANdy Griffith and Don Knotts teamed up again seeral times during the course of Griffith's later lawyer-turned-detective show, Matlock. 2. Dragnet 1967: Joe...
But for most viewers, the facts -- and sometimes even the case of the hour -- are not as entertaining as the relationships between cops.
Whether played for laughs or part of a serious crime drama, cop partnerships are central to almost every crime drama.
Check out our picks for the 17 best partnerships and share your own.
1. The Andy Griffith Show: Andy Taylor and Barney Fife Andy Taylor and Barney Fife were one of the funniest, and best known, cop partnerships of the early 1960s. Andy was the straight-laced, serious sheriff trying to raise his son to be an upstanding citizen, while Barney was goofy, silly, and accident-prone. This duo was so popular that ANdy Griffith and Don Knotts teamed up again seeral times during the course of Griffith's later lawyer-turned-detective show, Matlock. 2. Dragnet 1967: Joe...
- 12/30/2017
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
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