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chernobog13 · 2 months
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No, it's not a gold plated Doc Doom! It's General Klytus, leader of Mongo's secret police, from Flash Gordon (1980).
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weirdlookindog · 8 months
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Night of the Eagle (1962)
AKA Burn, Witch, Burn
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waytiretua · 3 months
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Screencap redraws from The Prisoner
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auxoubliettes · 6 months
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Night of the Eagle, dir. Sidney Hayers (1962)
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mariocki · 9 months
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The Saint: The Gadic Collection (5.27, ITC, 1967)
"He believed that people who are foolish deserve to be separated from their money."
"Well, I must confess, I feel the same way myself sometimes."
#the saint#the gadic collection#1967#itc#leslie charteris#freddie francis#philip broadley#roger moore#peter wyngarde#georgia brown#michael ripper#martin benson#andre van gyseghem#nicole shelby#hedger wallace#henry lincoln#paul darrow#geoffrey cheshire#ann tirard#andreas malandrinos#bakshi prem#and so s5 draws to a close. this production block had actually consisted of 30 odd episodes but a couple were held over for s6 which would#take more than a year to appear on screens. quite why that happened‚ as with much of the scheduling and itinerary of this show‚ remains a#mystery to me for now. this is a suitably grand finále‚ with a strong cast. curiously there is no credited writer onscreen (network credit#Broadley on the dvd sleeve). Wyngarde returns as guest star‚ but gets no fave spotted post from me this time; I've also largely tried to#avoid images with him in for this post. unfortunately a fairly good ep is rendered distasteful (and has fully understandably been dropped#from the current itv4 repeats) by one of the worst and most offensive cases of brownface I've come across in old tv. there's no excusing it#and it looks‚ frankly‚ ridiculous as well as deeply troubling. a very disappointing element of an otherwise entertaining episode#paul darrow also turns up and is also playing a native of Istanbul but happily does not appear to be under heavy makeup.. nor do much of#the guest cast‚ and certainly nobody near Wyngarde's level of makeup. which makes one wonder what happened and why on earth
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lobbycards · 17 days
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Flash Gordon, Italian fotobusta. 1980
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100gayicons · 2 years
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GAY ICONS - ALAN BATES
Alan Bates appeared in one of the most homoerotic scenes in movie history - wrestling nude with Oliver Reed in “Women in Love” (1969) - but I never considered he might be gay or bisexual… until…
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Recently I watched “Tea With the Dames” (2018) a documentary where Maggie Smith and Judi Dench gossip about their careers. When talking about Shakespeare’s “Anthony and Cleopatra”, Maggie off-handedly mentions that Alan Bates would have preferred to play the role of Cleopatra!
That remark sent me off researching … and sure enough, several sites mention that Bates, although he was married with twin sons, had several male lovers throughout his life. This was confirmed in a biography “Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates” which was written in cooperation with Bates’ surviving son Benedict.
In the 1960s, Bates starred in a string of international hits, including “Zorba the Greek” (1964), “Georgie Girl” (1966), “King of Hearts (1966), and “Far from the Madding Crowd” (1967).
What was unknown by the public at that time, Bates lived with and was in a 10 year relationship with actor Peter Wyngarde. (Wyngarde himself was outed in 1975 when he was arrested for 'gross indecency' with a truck driver in the toilets of a bus station.)
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But Bates was attracted to women as well. In 1964 Bates met actress Joanna Pettet when the both appeared on Broadway in “Poor Richard”. According to Pettit the two had an affair during the run of the show.
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In 1970, Bates married Victoria Ward who was pregnant at the time. She gave birth to their twin sons the next year. From all accounts their relationship was rocky. They separate but both were involved in raising their children. Tristan, one of the twin, died of a suspect overdose in 1990. His mother Victoria couldn’t recover from the shock and she died in 1992.
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In 1972, Bates met actor Nickolas Grace while they both were performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Grace was 25 at the time and described the relationship as:
“very close and very loving, in an intense affair that was one of the most important relationships of my life"
Bates denied to Nickolas that he was homosexual.
“(Alan) was free and happy, and … he took me to meet his family in Derby, where we had lovely weekends. But at other times he was reserved and frightened… he didn't want me to be seen with him.”
Bates later had a two year relationship with English Olympic skater John Curry. Curry was outed prior to the 1976 Olympics but the international press largely ignored it. In 1987 Curry was diagnosed with AIDS and died in 1994. It’s been reported that Bates helped to care for his former lover and was with him when he died.
Bates had relationships with other men and women but the ones I mention above seemed the most significant.
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Bates and Maggie Smith were reunited in Robert Altman’s “Gosford Park” (2001), the movie that inspired “Downton Abbey”. The next year Bates was knighted by Queen Elizabeth when she bestowed him with a CBE. The same year Bates rekindled his friendship with Joanna Pettit and she moved from the US to live with him. They had a common bond - her son had died of an overdose as well.
Bates needed hip replacement surgery in 2003. While recovering doctors discovered he had pancreatic cancer. And the final insult, a stroke. Alan Bates slipped into a coma with his son Benedict and friend Joanna Pettit by his side.
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kekwcomics · 1 year
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PETER WYNGARDE and KATE O'MARA
Photographed on the 17th March 1971.
Photo: Jack Kay
The pair co-starred in 'A Kiss for a Beautiful Killer', an episode of the television series 'Jason King'.
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gurumog · 2 years
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Flash Gordon (1980) Columbia–EMI–Warner Distributors / Universal Pictures Dir. Mike Hodges
Max von Sydow as Emperor Ming Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan Peter Wyngarde as Klytus Adrienne Kronenberg as Vultan's Daughter
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getoutofmyhouse · 1 year
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Flash Gordon (1980, d. Mike Hodges)
I was pleasantly surprised by this, I must say.
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misterkeema · 1 year
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chernobog13 · 1 year
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General Klytus (Peter Wyngarde), the head of Mongo’s secret police in Flash Gordon (1980).
I always felt that, with a few modifications, this could be the basis of an excellent Doctor Doom costume.
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weirdlookindog · 3 months
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Night of the Eagle (1962)
AKA Burn, Witch, Burn
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thisbluespirit · 1 year
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Juliet Harmer guesting in Department S episode “The Man in the Elegant Room.”  (ITC, 1968)
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parisonlygirl · 27 days
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ugh look at him
#ohmygodlookathim #ilove him #imsosilly #mysilly
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mariocki · 2 months
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A young Peter Wyngarde guests as journalist Andrea Bakolas (a fictionalised version of the real Gregorios Staktopoulos) in Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!: The George Polk Case (1.9, ABPC, 1957)
#fave spotting#peter wyngarde#overseas press club exclusive!#jason king#classic tv#1957#abpc#the george polk case#gregorios staktopoulos#george polk#for more on this strange little series see the tags on a prev alfred burke fave spotting post#i mentioned at that time my doubts that all of these stories were quite as 'torn from the headlines' as the narrator would have us believe#but this one is certainly true: george polk was a real american journalist and he was really murdered in Greece during the civil war there#that part is certainly delivered fairly accurately; it is‚ however‚ kind of background to this old tv dramatisation of events#which is more concerned with capturing the guilty party (SPOILERS ig for a near 70yr old show nobody will watch lol): it's Peter of course#but that's where we hit a weird snag; bc his character here is again very much (for once) based on a real person‚ Gregorios Staktopoulos#but Gregorios' confession was almost certainly obtained via torture‚ not the play of wits shown here; his conviction was also‚ to say the#least‚ unsafe. evidence brought in that trial has been shown to be false‚ and it's actually debated now that Polk was not killed by the#Communist forces (whom Gregorios worked with) at all‚ but by right wing elements affiliated with the Greek government... as recently as#2004 his widow was campaigning for a posthumous retrial to clear his name. so yes an unfortunate footnote in old tv: when you#actually DO try to tell a true story‚ just be aware that the facts you're taking as true may not always be what they appear#the real Gregorios was indeed sentenced to life in prison as in this ep‚ but some relief there in that his sentence was reduced and#(perhaps in recognition of the shady legalities surrounding his conviction) he was released in 1960 and returned to work as a journalist#the George Polk Awards for american journalism are still given today which is nice#imdb list this ep as The George Polk Story but the onscreen title is definitely Case
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