Henry Gibson, Actor: 1935 – 2009
By Craig Kennedy - September 17th, 2009; 10:08 am
Henry Gibson as Haven Hamilton in Robert Altman’s Nashville
Though he rose to fame as the gentle but strange poet on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, I’ll best remember Henry Gibson (born James Bateman) for his more sinister turns in Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Nashville, John Landis’ The Blues Brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. With the exception of Nashville, he might not be the first thing you think of when you think of those movies, but none of them would be the same without him.
Henry Gibson died Monday of cancer at the age of 73.
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Loved him to bits.
I will miss him VERY MUCH.
RIP, Henry.
RIP Mr Gibson. You were a singular personality on screen. You will be missed.
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Rip, Mr. Gibson.
Forgive me for having said this elsewhere, but I just love the image of him slapping around Sterling Hayden in The Long Goodbye. And you believe it!
Here’s a clip of him hamming it up on Wonder Woman. Not his finest moment, but he seems to be having fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Y4kwhKLs4
It’s not easy to be a badass in purple satin.
RIP
I love that WW clip. I was looking for a solid one from Long Goodbye or Nashville but couldn’t find one. There was a low quality one from Kentucky Fried Movie, a PSA announcement about death that either would’ve been wildly inappropriate or just the opposite, I couldn’t decide.
A very sad state of affairs as of late. We lost Mary Travers of course as well this week, not to mention Patrick Swayze.
R.I.P.
He was a wonderful character actor across fare as diverse as Magnolia and Kentucky Fried Movie.
A PSA about death?! It’s anti, I presume.
“Death: don’t fall for it, kids. It hurts and it will ruin your life.”
It’s pro dead people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kXl8LyD_JA