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762_XC

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RIP Porkins
« on: October 28, 2005, 07:53:50 pm »
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Star Trek may have led to the term "red shirts", but the expendable characters in Star Wars were more memorable. Most memorable of them all was Porkins (a.k.a. "Red Six"), played by William Hootkins, who passed away last weekend. Hootkins also played the crooked police lieutentant Echkardt in Tim Burton's Batman and Frobisher in the Blackadder II episode "Beer".

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Sad, I always had a soft spot for Porkins! Here's to you big guy...

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Re: RIP Porkins
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2005, 09:05:48 am »
Ya' know that actually makes me sad.
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"Dialogue from a play, Hamlet to Horatio: 'There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' Dialogue from a play written long before men took to the sky. There are more things in heaven and earth, and in the sky, than perhaps can be dreamt of. And somewhere in between heaven, the sky, the earth, lies the Twilight Zone."
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Re: RIP Porkins
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2005, 03:59:10 pm »
He served the classic geek in the fighter cockpit role, before the world knew what a geek was in the 1970s.

Sorry to hear about his passing.  :'(
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