I want to get it… feel it… show it… as it is,” Nicholson tells her. “Look, for the last scene, my character freezes and I want to know how it goes. Turkel’s dressing room was next to Nicholson’s, and in Scott Edwards’s 2018 book quintessential jackHe recalled how he had seen an open book about the effects of Nicholson’s chest freeze before filming Glazed’Final Snow Sequence. Took off my t-shirt and got it wrong out.” “I went to my dressing room, took off my shirt. In 2014, he reported that rehearsals took six weeks, while “Stanley was looking for the perfect shot” and that he was on set one day from 9 a.m. Turkel speaks a total of 96 words in his two scenes. When Torrence returns to the room, Lloyd’s is still behind the bar, but it is now filled with party guests from the 1920s.Īt the 1982 ‘Blade Runner’ Warner Bros./Photofest, Dr. Best goddamn bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine – Portland, Oregon for that matter. “I like you Lloyd, I’ve always liked you,” Torrence says. Suddenly the lounge’s bartender, Lloyd (Turkel), appears and gives him bourbon, even though Torrance has no money. His spiral of despair and intoxication leads to a fight Fainted, he absurdly stood on a stretcher in front of the firing squad.īetween Glazed (1980), aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrence (Jack Nicholson) wanders the empty Gold Room of The Overlook Hotel and into the bar, where in a state of insanity he pleads for a glass of beer.

His character, the decorated soldier Private Arnaud, Pvt. As the actor remembered kubrick universe Podcast, the filmmaker told him “The picture was terrible, but I liked you and what you did and that’s why I said I’d have to hire that guy sometime.”Īfter his small role in the killingThe meticulous Kubrick casts Turkel, who was then 30, one of three soldiers used as a scapegoat for an unsuccessful attack in World War I in the classic Kirk Douglas-starring film. Kubrick sees Turkel at work for the first time in a B-picture man mad (1953). boy and pirate And tormented, He also played a prisoner of war in Robert the Wise sand pebbles (1966) and Roger Corman had “Greesy Thumb” Guzik, the bribe giver in real life St. (Only Philip Stone has appeared in three Kubrick films.)įor Burt I Gordon, Turkel appeared in the 1960 release as Abu the Genie and a gangster, respectively. the killing (1956) and sent to the firing squad as a soldier path of glory (1957), which the Brooklyn-born actor called the greatest film of all time. Turkel also appeared in two other Kubrick films: as a gunman in the climactic shootout. Turkel died Monday at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, his family announced. Joe Turkel, who played the ghostly bartender in Stanley Kubrick’s film Glazed and the makers of Ridley Scott’s replicas blade Runner, has died.

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