Dammit. :/ Alas for his loss.
(ETA: was just last night watching his deeply creepy Jephro Rucastle in the Granada Holmes "The Copper Beeches." It's a kind of acting mode you don't often see Ackland in. But dear gods it gives me the shudders.) :)
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Joss Ackland 1928-2023
Ridcully put the gnome back in his pocket and looked up at Hex.
‘Amazin’,’ he said again. ‘He just looks as though he’s thinking, right?’
‘Er . . . yes.’
‘But he’s not actually thinking?’
‘Er . . . no.’
‘So . . . he just gives the impression of thinking but really it’s just a show?’
‘Er . . . yes.’
‘Just like everyone else, then, really,’ said Ridcully.
-- Terry Pratchett - Hogfather
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RIP Joss Ackland (1928-2023). Seen here in the classic scene from The Hunt for Red October where Richard Jordan (1937-1993) talks to him like he's been a naughty schoolboy.
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Actor Joss Ackland, the voice actor for Eckhardt has passed away. An incredible talent who helped bring our fave alchemist to life...
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Project Shadowchaser (John Eyres, 1992)
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JOSS ACKLAND (1928-Died November 19th 2023,at 95).English actor whose career spanned over 70 years,on stage,film and television and well known for his distinctive gravelly,deep voice.His most notable film roles,included real life aristocrat Jock Delves Broughton,suspect in the Happy Valley murder in colonial Kenya,in the film adaptation of the scandal, White Mischief, and in other films such as the villainous Arjen Rudd,in Lethal Weapon 2,as Russian Ambassador Lysenko,in The Hunt For Red October,and as the villian,Chuck De Nomolos,in cult time travel comedy Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, a role he personally hated.Joss Ackland - Wikipedia
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THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER 1990
I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
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A Woman Named Jackie - NBC - October 13 - 15, 1991
Biography (3 episodes)
Running Time: 246 minutes total
Stars:
Roma Downey as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Stephen Collins as John F. Kennedy
William Devane as John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III
Joss Ackland as Aristotle Onassis
Wendy Hughes as Janet Lee Bouvier
Ashley Crow as Caroline Lee Bouvier Radziwill
Boyd Gaines as Hugh Dudley "Yusha" Auchincloss
Tim Ransom as Robert F. Kennedy
Lisa Eichhorn as Dr. Jordan
Rosemary Murphy as Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Andrew Buckley as John F. Kennedy Jr.
Nadia Dajani as Christina Onassis
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Teenage Jacqueline Bouvier
Josef Sommer as Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Eve Gordon as Marilyn Monroe
Brian Smiar as Lyndon B. Johnson
Bob Gunton as Hugh D. Auchincloss
Jessica Tuck as Lorraine Murphy
Anna Thomson as Ilona
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