Showing posts with label stuntman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stuntman. Show all posts

Tuesday 10 March 2020

FLASHBAK SADDEST FEATURE : STUNTMAN SUPREME EDDIE POWELL AND OSCAR QUITAK BIRTHDAYS!


A HEADS UP! Thank you to the several friends out there who sent me a link to a feature that has turned up on the nostalgia site FlashBak . . on Peter Cushing πŸ˜‰ Here is a link to the feature HERE!



IT'S LOVELY HERE to see all the past clubs mentioned and a hand written letter from our founder and friend, the amazing Gladys Fletcher 😊 Also I've had a quite a few messages asking how to become a 'member' of PCASUK? Gosh, 'members' . . those were the days🌝 Sadly those days have also long gone, we do though have a this fab Facebook Fan Page fan page and super website πŸ˜‰ ... and very lucky to have the support and interest of over 30K very friendly followers πŸ˜ƒπŸ˜‰Here below in the comments thread, for those of you who asked for info is the PCASUK promo trailer  HERE!... four years old now! Time for a new one? - Marcus



REMEMBERING EDDIE POWELL TODAY πŸ˜ƒ Here is a guy who who appeared in many many Hammer films...was Christopher Lee's favorite stuntman and stand in for the majority of his horror films. Dracula Prince of Darkness, The Mummy's Shroud, he appeared in several BOND films, Cushing's Dr Who, Daleks Invasion Earth. Later, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman in 1989... and not many of the fans of Ridley Scott's ALIEN, realise it was Eddie in the costume during many of the scenes and stunts!  


BLESS YOU EDDIE, you were a master and genius! PLEASE help us celebrate his birthday today, he sadly left us in August 11th in 2000. He has left behind a real archive of work and many friends and people who still miss him 😊 HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDDIE!


PLEASE JOIN US in wishing actor, 94 years young Oscar Quitak today! Quitak has a huge CV of performances and work which started in 1946, in As You Like It, to 1993 in the BBC TV series 'Every Silver Lining'! His Cushing connection was playing Karl in Hammer's sequel to 'The Curse of Frankenstein', The REVENGE of Frankenstein in 1958. In quite limited screen time, he successfully squeezed every last drop of pathos for a man who wanted to be cured. Thereafter follows a carrer that saw him appear in some classic television dramas and british movies. From the BBC Colditz serial, ITC's Man In Suitcase, Doomwatch, Ace of Wands in the 1970's, BBC's Z Cars series, and in 1976, 'The Last of The Cybernauts' New Avengers episode, picking up where Peter Cushing's Paul Beresford left off in 1967 with 'Return of the Cybernauts'.   


QUITAK also appeared in Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil', the Hammer return TV series, Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense episode, 'Black Carion' in 1984. The same year, he appeared as 'a doctor' in Kenny Everett's 'Bloodbath In The House of Death' black comedy, which also starred Vincent Price! Over four years, he turned up in various roles in Everett's BBC TV series and a total of eight shows!


OSCAR was married to actress Andree Melly (who is probably most famous for her role as Gina in Cushing's 'The Brides of Dracula' (1960) she sadly passed away on 31st January 2020.


FROM US ALL, a VERY Happy Birthday Oscar Quitak . . and many more to come😊
 



Saturday 10 March 2018

REMEMBERING EDDIE POWELL : HORROR STUNTMAN AND MUCH MORE!


REMEMBERING EDDIE POWELL TODAY πŸ™‚ Here is a guy who who appeared in many many Hammer films...was Christopher Lee's favorite stuntman and stand the majority of his horror films. Dracula Prince of Darkness, The Mummy's Shroud, he appeared in several BOND films, Cushing's Dr Who, Daleks Invasion Earth. Later, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman in 1989... and not many of the fans of Ridley Scott's ALIEN, realize it was Eddie in the costume during many of the scenes and stunts! 




BLESS YOU EDDIE, you were a master and genius! PLEASE help us celebrate his birthday today, he sadly left us in August 11th in 2000. He has left behind a real archive of work and many friends and people who still miss him πŸ™‚ HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDDIE!



REMEMBER! IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, facebook fan page and youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA

Friday 26 June 2015

FRANKENSTEIN FRIDAY : RARE STUNT MAN JOCK EASTMAN CHRISTOPHER LEE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN STILL


#‎frankensteinfriday‬: Here's a fabulous way to start this weeks Frankenstein Friday, with a large scan of a very rare behind the scenes photograph from Hammer films 'The Curse of Frankenstein' (1957)... Here we are on the set of The Curse of Frankenstein at Hammer films, Bray Studios, with stuntman JOCK EASTMAN who stunt doubled for Christopher Lee (uncredited on this film) standing in the 'tank of acid', and being assisted by a female crew member. If you look carefully to the right of the foreground of the photograph,you can see a figure with glasses, their back to the camera... that's director Terence Fisher looking on.... Jock had just crashed through a skylight and into a tank of acid...bringing about the sad end to Cushing's Creation!


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