Joe Turkel, who played the annoying bartender in Stanley Kubrick shines and creator of Ridley Scott’s replicants Bounty Hunter, died. He was 94 years old.
Turkel died Monday at the Providence St. John in Santa Monica told his family.
Turkel also appeared in two other Kubrick films: as Gunshot to kill (1956) and as a soldier assigned to the firing squad forms of fame (1957), which the Brooklyn-born actor called the greatest film ever made. (Philip Stone only appeared in three of Kubrick’s films.)
Bert e. For Gordon, Turkel appeared in the 1960s releases as Abu Jinn and The Gangster, respectively. The boy and the pirates s Suffering. He also played a POW in Robert Wise. sand pebbles (1966) and was the real-life bribe “Greasy Thumb” Guzick in Roger Corman’s film. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967).
Kubrick first noticed Turkel working on a B-movie crazy man (1953). As the actor remembers kubrick’s world podcast, the filmmaker told him, “The photo turned out awful, but I liked you and what you did, so I said that one day I’m going to have to hire this guy.”
After his supporting role to killKubrick carefully cast Turkel, then 30, as one of three soldiers used in a failed World War I raid in Kirk Douglas’ classic. forms of fame.
Your character, a decorated soldier, Private Arno, is chosen by lot to send the soldier to his death. Ferrol (Timothy Kerr) and Cpl. Paris (Ralph Meeker). His spiral of despair and drunkenness leads him into a fight; Knocked out, he is absurdly placed on a stretcher in front of a firing squad.
Midway shines (1980), aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters the empty Gold Room of The Overlook Hotel and goes to a bar, where he desperately asks for a glass of beer.
Suddenly, the bartender of the bar, Lloyd (Turkey), appears and serves bourbon, although Torrance has no money. “I like you, Lloyd, I always have,” says Torrance. “You were always the best among them. Best Virgin Bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine – Portland, Oregon.
When Torrance returns to the room, Lloyd is behind the bar, but it is now full of 1920s party people.
Joe Turkel as Dr. Eldon Tyrrell in Blade Runner, 1982
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Turkel says a total of 96 words in his two scenes. In 2014, he noted that rehearsals lasted six weeks as “Stanley searched for the perfect shot”, and one day he was on set from 9am to 10:30pm. I took off my shirt and undressed. [the sweat] outside.”
Turkel’s dressing room was next to Nicholson and in Scott Edwards’ 2018 book. The quintessential jackHe remembered seeing an open book on Nicholson’s chest about freezing effects before filming. shinesThe final snow sequence.
“Look, in the last scene, my character freezes and I want to know how that happens. I want to take…feel…show…the way it is,” Nicholson told him.
Thanks shinesScott played him as Dr. Eldon Tyrell Bounty Hunter (one thousand nine hundred and eighty-two). “Joe had this kind of waxy makeup or skin quality,” says the director in the film’s DVD commentary, “and Joe was so clean-shaven he almost looked like polished ivory.”
Tyrell, who lives in a giant pyramid, runs a corporation that creates replicators with a lifespan of four years: “More than humans,” reads his company’s slogan.
At the end of the film, dressed in a heavy white coat and wearing large glasses, Tyrell is visited by his most valuable and advanced replicant, Roy Butt (Rutger Hauer), who begs him to extend his soon-to-expire life.
Tyrell tells him that “a light that shines twice as long lasts half the time, and you’re really, really bright, Roy.”
In one of the film’s most memorable moments, the goose, realizing that its creator cannot fulfill its wish, kisses its watery lips before covering its head and eyes with its bare hands.
Turkel’s ears were tubed for the bloody effect, and when Hauer (on the first day on set) began to shrink his face, makeup artist Marvin G. Westmore injected fake blood into the tubes. (The team created a dummy prosthetic head for Turkel, but it was never used on screen. It would find a home in the office of visual effects master Douglas Trumbull.)
From left: Paul Richards, Joe Turkel and Jason Robards in the 1967 “Valentine’s Day Massacre”
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Turkel, born July 15, 1927, began his film career in the late 1940s, including film noir. The city across the river (1949), glass wall (1953), San Quentin board (1954), the human jungle (1954) and Naked Street (1955); In war movies like Montezuma salons s Fix the bayonets!, both from 1951; and in comedies like Among the protective palm trees below (1952) and A small case of theft (1953).
He played the criminal’s cousin, Chuck Darrow. Bonnie Parker’s Story (1958), sheriff in Gordon valley of the giants (1965) and Detective Sage hindenburg (1975).
could be seen on television Boston BlackDefensor PúblicoThe Lone RangerThe LineupBonanzaThe UntouchablesTales from the Dark Side s Miami Vice.
His last film appearance was in 1990. dark side of the MoonHe reprized the role of Tyrell, voice-only, in 1997. Bounty Hunter video game.
Before his death, Turkel completed a memoir entitled disgrace of successthat the family plans to publish this year.
He has lived in Santa Monica since the early 1990s and can be seen at numerous restaurants and businesses in the city, including Fromin’s Deli, Izzy’s, Bagel Nosh, Marmalade, Rosti, Spumoni and Aero Theater.
Survivors include their children Craig and Robert; daughters-in-law Annie and Casilde; brother David; and grandchildren Ben and Sarah. Those wishing to attend his burial at Hollywood Forever Cemetery should email JosephTurkel1927@gmail.com.
In Dennis Fisher’s 2000 book science fiction film directorsTurkel remembered asking Kubrick why he insisted on filming the 17th actor simply in the hallway. “I worked four years on this film, I want it to be perfect,” was his response.
It’s on forms of fameTurkel saw Adolphe Menjo frustrated with the constant filming of a long and wordy scene he had with George Macready.
“Aten. Kubrick, when are you going to say cut and print? Menjo remembered yelling at Kubrick. “I ran away from Charlie Chaplin, who started me, but I never had the kind of pressure you’re putting on. Us now.”
But Kubrick got more reps. When filming was over, Turkel asked the director which route he would take in the film. “After the first scream,” Kubrick said. “There was a tone to his voice that matched the terrible scene that came just after the anger in the first take.”
Source: Hollywood Reporter

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