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Sir Alfred Hitchcock, the undisputed master of murder, mayhem and the macabre, always said that his mission in life was "to scare the hell out of people." Nobody did it better.

Prolific character actor of film and TV since the 1970s whose commanding glare, bald pate, lanky physique, and ramrod posture lend credibility to his often less than sympathetic portrayals of military brass, law men,.... Prolific character actor of film and TV since the 1970s whose commanding glare, bald pate, lanky physique, and ramrod posture ...

My parents, already well aware of my budding interest in all things cinematically macabre, shepherded me to the local Loew's in our tiny village of Pittsford, N.Y., to see my first Alfred Hitchcock film Family Plot which, as it turned out, also happened to be the director's underrated swan song.

A stage-trained actor with a trademark toothy grin and a feral, sinister quality, William Devane has often played members of the Kennedy clan as well as other political figures or authoritarian characters.

Donald Spoto, author of High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly among many other biographies, reveals how he gets the interview.

To be young, gifted and Black - audiences got a little insight into the performative character of Karen Black at the Gladstone Hotel's musical revue this weekend.

Be the first to comment on this article... Eric Veillette special to the star Karen Black's voice still sounds as vibrant as it did when she sang to Jack Nicholson in 1970's Five Easy Pieces ; her soft tremolo as fresh as when she hosted Saturday Night Live in 1976.

This charming stage-trained comedy specialist had an intermittent but once beguiling screen career dating back to the mid-1960s. Long a critic's darling, Harris convinces as scatterbrained characters with endearing.... This charming stage-trained comedy specialist had an intermittent but once beguiling screen career dating back to the mid-1960s.

Karen Black: My Life for a Song Jul 25-26. 9pm . $20 . Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. Call 416-531-4635 for reservations.

Despite her skill at playing dominant, often predatory matriarchs on television and in film, actress Katherine Helmond started life as a shy child with a Catholic school upbringing.

A key female performer of the American film renaissance of the early 1970s, Karen Black was known for her warm smile, sturdy-yet-fraught quality and imperfectly set eyes.

Doc Films opened its summer season last night with Million Dollar Legs , a lunatic Depression-era satire that might test the tolerance of even the giddiest W.C. Fields admirers.

Their son has been kidnapped, and the husband, a doctor, knows his wife will be overwhelmed by the news.