One Flew Over the Crebain's Nest

[The Saucepan Man]

Wasn't Brad Dourif also in "Eraserhead"?<P>Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee have been in countless films (as well as stage roles). I first saw Ian McKellen (Gandalf) in the 1970s in a very moving performance as a mentally handicapped man in an English TV drama, Joey. But he'd been going quite a while then. He also played the British MP, John Profumo, in Scandal.<P>Christopher Lee (Saruman) is of course best known for his roles as Count Dracula (in many a wonderful Hammer House of Horror film) and was the sinister head of the community in the Wicker Man (a fantastic film for any who haven't seen it). He's carved out a great career playing villains. <P>John Rhys-Davies (Gimli and Treebeard) was Indiana Jones' friend in Raiders of the Lost Ark - "They're digging in the wrong place, Indie". <P>Bernard Hill (Theoden) has been many English TV dramas (eg Boys from the Blackstuff - "Gissa job, and I'll smack those orcs for you" ), but I don't think that he's done much film stuff. <P>I must say that I was shocked to see Billy Boyd (Pippin) recently in a film about a teenage girl on a Scottish housing estate who was hanted by a ghost (I can't remember it's name). He played a shaven-headed and violent debt collecter who terrorised the girl and her mother with his two thugs. Not quite the fool of a Took that we all know and love.<P>[ January 11, 2003: Message edited by: The Saucepan Man ]<p>[ January 11, 2003: Message edited by: The Saucepan Man ]