Body Snatchers Star Kevin McCarthy Dies at 96

seattlepi ^ | September 13, 2010

[JoeProBono]

Kevin McCarthy reprised his role from Don Siegel's original 1956 sci-fi chiller with a stumble-on cameo in Philip Kaufman's laudable late-seventies remake. The character name is the same in both movies

[panzerkamphwageneinz]

It was THE BEST SCI FI movie of it’s time. I still get scared at the pods...

[Liz]

Kevin McCarthy also appeared as Marilyn Monroe's estranged husband in the 1961 classic The Misfits, Monroe's last film.

[JoeProBono]

[Dr. Ursus]

What was the movie with Paul Muni.Thanks

[OB1kNOb]

He was also great in "UHF."

Yes, he was.

[Ev Reeman]

You should see the movie without the studio imposed opening and closing scenes.

[Las Vegas Dave]

I remember see this movie when I was about *10 y.o., scared the living sheet daylights out of me.

*(My big brother was the projectionist, I had the privilege of seeing all movies free..)

[JoeProBono]

During a career that spanned more than 70 years, beginning on stage in New York in the late 1930s, McCarthy played Biff Loman opposite Paul Muni’s Willy in the 1949 London production of “Death of a Salesman.” Reprising his role in the 1951 film version opposite Fredric March, he earned a supporting-actor Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe as most promising male newcomer.

[Dr. Ursus]

Thanks. Paul Muni is one of my favorites.

[trisham]

I’m sorry to hear it. He was very talented, and I always liked him.

[mc5cents]

I think that that movie is reason that to this day I do not like green veggies! I am not kidding. I think the original was in B&W but I KNEW it was a veggie.

[Verbosus]

Quote:
“A great movie, better IMHO than either of its imitators.”

I agree - but did you notice that in the remake with Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nimoy that McCarthy is the ‘crazy guy’ running from car to car on the crowded street screaming that there are invaders?

His tone of voice is exactly as it was in the original.
That has got to be one of the best placed cameos in film.

[Verbosus]

Oops:

It looks like JoeProBono pointed out the cameo in post#1.

Sorry ‘bout that.

[JoeProBono]

Photo Tour: The Misfits

[kevao]

McCarthy looks help up pretty well for a guy who hadn’t slept in 54 years.

[kevao]

McCarthy’s looks held up pretty well for a guy who hadn’t slept in 54 years.

[Red Badger]

LOL!.....

[ozzymandus]

McCarthy was a great character actor. He was in at least one episode of “The Twilight Zone”.

[GreenHornet]

I also remember him from an episode of “The Twilight Zone.” He played a man who was hundreds of years old, as a result of an elixir that he bought from an alchemist in medieval times. He was eventually confronted and exposed by one of his many wives.