Actors

vic fortezza
2 min readJan 27, 2021

I came across a fun list at independent.co.uk concerning the actors who have suffered the most screen deaths. Here it is:
10. Eric Roberts — 35.
Tied for eighth Tom Sizemore & Bela Lugosi — 36.
7. John Hurt — 39.
Tied for fourth: Boris Karloff, Dennis Hopper & Vincent Price — 41.
3. Lance Henriksen — 51.
2. Christopher Lee — 60.
1. Danny Trejo — 65.
Conspicuous by their absence: Jack Elam & Lee Van Cleef.

Here’s Henriksen as the android in Aliens (1986):

RIP consummate supporting actor Bruce Kirby, 95. Born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu in NYC, his career spanned 1955–2009. There are 144 titles under his name at IMDb. He appeared in at least five episodes of nine series including Car 54, Where Are You?, Columbo, L.A. Law, Hunter, Kojak and Days of Our Lives. He also did some theater, most notably in an L.A. production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, in which he was billed, appropriately since it’s about Italians, by his real name. He also served as Dustin Hoffman’s understudy in the role of Willy Loman in the 1984 Broadway production of Miller’s Death of A Salesman. Hai fatto bene, goombah. Grazie. Here he is with his son Bruno, who was taken by leukemia at 57 in 2006:

I decided to set up shop at my alternate site and it proved a good move. The dollops of sunshine enabled me to spend the entire session out of the car, and I sold a bunch of books, most of them large and heavy. My thanks to the middle age woman who bought two massive law tomes and a psychology textbook; and to the young one who purchased a 2019 SAT prep manual and a textbook on investing; and to the woman who overcompensated me for four kids books; and to the woman who selected Out of the Blue by Isabel Wolff; and to Mr. Conspiracy, aka Steve, who took home an Iron Man pictorial.

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vic fortezza
vic fortezza

Written by vic fortezza

I was born in Brooklyn in 1950 to Sicilian immigrants. I’ve had more than 50 short stories published world wide. I have 13 books in print.

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