John Phillip Law, Actor: 1937 – 2008
John Phillip Law, best remembered by me as Pygar the blind angel in Roger Vadim’s Barbarella, died May 13 of cancer. He was 70 years old.
His first Hollywood role was as Alexei, a boyish Russian sailor in Norman Jewison’s The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming! He also played the title character in the second of Ray Harryhausen’s three Sinbad films, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (the one with the one-eyed centaur and Kali, the six-armed statue come to life).
Last July, I caught a Q&A with Mr. Law at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica following a screening of Otto Preminger’s acid tinged cult favorite, Skidoo, organized by Skidoo expert and LiC familiar Christian Divine. Christian wrote a much better remembrance of the man than I can attempt here. Check it out.
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Thanks for the shout out. I just wish we could have had the next screening sooner. Had I known…
The shout out was a no-brainer. You wrote a lovely remembrance.
Console yourself that at least you got that one screening in and he got to see how many people have grown to like that movie and have genuine enthusiasm for him.
RIP.
I liked him in Skidoo and the Sinbad movies, as well as The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming!