My song was called What You Do, I Do. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. It was directed by Tony Luraschi, a great guy and wonderful director. That was the last straw. But this guy is anything but sensitive. In fact, one day I got invited by Elia Kazan and I forgot to follow up. John Irvin actually hired me based on seeing that. Wasson was featured as Doug Ebert in the soap opera One Life to Live in 1991. It also wants to be a meditation on love, and on how love changes during the course of a decade. Sorry for the maudlin tone but seeing Craig again was AWESOME!PS: Saw Gabriel Byrne in a bit speaking part. Working with Patricia Arquette was great. She didnt know me at all. And like an idiot I sign with this guy And they put me on ice for a year, so their clients can go back to work. Want to know when we put up a new talk? Prior to the merger of Walgreens and Alliance Boots, Wasson was . And I asked Ed what movie she wanted to make. I had this story about almost once being tempted, but I couldnt go through with it when I met the husband, who was so thin he looked like a stick man, he had a head this narrow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Craig Wasson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. And she said: Stephen King. After all that he also goes undercover as a porn actor! He is best known for his roles as Jake Scully in Brian DePalma's Body Double (1984), and Neil Gordon in Chuck Russell's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). Sid listened and said: Yeah, okay. BnF authorities. Craig Wasson - Have Me Arrested - Music Video 12,191 views May 10, 2011 Actor Craig Wasson (Body Double) made this failed attempt at MTV pop stardom. Its exponentially worse. (6) Both films end with the heroine finally wising up . Initially, she said no. The answer. His movies are always exaggerated, even the performances in them. My favorite sequence of the movie is where you follow Deborah Shelton to the Beverly Hills Mall and youre watching her buy new underwear and you grab her old underwear out of the trashcan. Youre doing a lot of audio books these days. You know, were living in a big society with big corporations and big things that make me feel very small and very closed in and very frightened. Let me give you her number. He made his film debut in Rollercoaster (1977). Thats exactly right. For instance, the telescope represents television, movies, newspapers And he said: Youre looking at something you love, that you adore, that means everything to you. His father was Luigi Luraschi, the head of Paramount over in London. I mean, Tippi Hedrens daughter is Melanie Griffith! Other films came out before ours. They had me read it. And the only reason nobody ever saw it, is because the poor guy, in order to raise the money, gave away a hundred percent of the points. Unassuming, stage-trained performer who made his film acting debut in "The Boys in Company C" (1978--he also contributed a song), was featured in the fine adaptation of Peter Straub . Hes an understated comedian. That was an interesting story. There was a screening at the AFI and it won a bunch of awards. Googling him after listening to 11/22/63, I came across this page. I didnt even have to read for it. Hes a brilliant director. When I came to Los Angeles we used to play softball together with Andy Garcia. In 1988 there was BUM RAP, a comedy drama about a man who learns he only has three days to live. Someone should look him up and make those movies. got wind of the script while we were shooting in Ireland. [Laughs]. In 1980, Wasson starred in an AFI student film directed by Robert Mandel. How did you get involved? I saw Craig in a play, '1776' at the Very Little. In 1980 he starred in the television series Skag. The writer, Steve Tesich, was also a brilliant guy. To give you an idea: we shot THE BOYS IN COMPANY C in six months or some crazy amount of time. Isnt that brilliant? He played opposite Burt Lancaster in the Vietnam drama GO TELL THE SPARTANS and he was in an ensemble cast of young actors in another Vietnam movie that came out in 1978, the excellent THE BOYS IN COMPANY C. Go back to Hitchcock and you can see its all there. You got your first break in 1975 when you were cast in THE BOYS IN COMPANY C. What was life like for you at the time, as a struggling actor? What was that experience like? Theres one guy in that scene with a weird costume on and a conehead. No, I loved that style. And I said: What review? Because we had little money, we shot for only three weeks. I have good memories. There was a long pause. They were just sending young American men off to die in a meat grinder. 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And I said: I know Im only getting paid ten thousand, but its worth it, because Im playing the lead. You know? I had the opportunity to make a living as an actor and I retired comfortably. Its disgusting, but at the same time you might think: I dont know. The distributor went out of business the same week the movie was released! Wasson is also a prolific narrator for audio books, having narrated Stephen King's 2011 novel 11/22/63, and other books by Stephen King, as well as books by James Ellroy and John Grisham. So, I just stand up and leave. You cant have anyone blackball you. Lives are lost for someones third home or a yacht. Yup true story all the way, one craftily told in the 1984 Emmy-winning rip-roarer Why Me?, starring 70s Movie-Of-The-Week queen Glynnis OConnor (The Boy In The Plastic Bubble.) She was great. Every time I did a movie like that, that says something profound, it got squashed, it seems like. I wasnt there, because I wasnt even invited. He had that special star quality. A friend of mine knew this editor who did audio books, Bob Walter. I had a girlfriend out in the Hamptons and I was visiting her. Again, you play a guy with a great weakness. Yeah. But then came number four, and five, and six and seven! He seems perfect for the book. I feel like the luckiest guy who ever lived. But you know, its pretty violent. I agree with you, brother. We used to call him Rocky Bauer. But anyway, I loved working with those older guys, John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas, Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. But before the appointed evening of the party, the lawyer dies. i will look for some of his audio books. That was too bad, because I think it could have made quite an impression in 1975. Thats the set-up. He is one of the nicest people I have ever met. Shes a great gal. Lets not kid ourselves. All these guys get a big monologue or a backstory. Hit Jennifer Hart: Directed by Tom Mankiewicz. And if you tried, it got squashed. When you were cast as Jake Scully in BODY DOUBLE, do you know what movies Brian De Palma had seen of you? FULL METAL JACKET basically happened because Kubrick saw Lee Ermey in our movie. The first of those was THE OUTSIDER which we shot in Ireland. In both THE BOYS IN COMPANY C and GO TELL THE SPARTANS you portray the character through whose eyes we see the insanity of war. You will likely need to provide information such as the report number, your name, drivers license number, vehicle plate number, the date/time of accident, location of accident, who was involved in the accident, your mailing address, phone number, and email. Did you have any misgivings at the time? Craig Wasson is an American actor. Leslie Ackerman played a relation of his character and Bibi Besch . His major role in the movie also earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. It really lays bare Jakes weakness. I listen to dozens of books while at work and have enjoyed very few more than his. Good. I think its really brave and honest of Brian to do that. And he was right. He just used words. I was glad that I was always asked to play an everyman, because its the everyman who always gets the shaft. He probably overestimated me [laughs]. But I also read somewhere that DREAM WARRIORS had the biggest opening weekend for an independent film ever. After those films I got a three picture deal at Paramount. The second best result is Craig R Wasson age 60s in Topeka, KS. You can scroll down for information about his Social media profiles. I played a has-been bigshot in his twenties who was still living off of his football bravado. They cut it out! He has made guest appearances in a number of series, including The Bob Newhart Show, Phyllis, Skag, For Jenny with Love, Murder, She Wrote, M*A*S*H (TV series), Hart to Hart, Walker, Texas Ranger, Profiler, The Practice, Seven Days, The Secrets of Isis, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. And Karl Malden really is Serbian. Im like: Shes okay, dad. just looked at my yearbook again after seeing craig on a "hart to hart" episode. I loved the interview you did with William Friedkin in which he says that people arent good or bad, theyre all in this grey area of morality. I dont care what anybody says. In 1989, with a promising career ahead of him, actor Merritt Butrick died from AIDS at the young age of 29. I am listening to the book at the moment. [SPOILER:] When I watched FOUR FRIENDS and the wedding scene came up, and the father of the bride shoots her, I had to rewind just to see if I had missed something. Because Im also a musician and I used to have a band although Im not doing much with it these days, but if you go on Spotify or YouTube you can find my albums there I really responded to Ellroys style. In 1982, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year Actor for his performance in Four Friends. In 1978, he appeared in two films about the Vietnam war: first as a private in The Boys in Company C and then as a corporal in Go Tell the Spartans. I had started out in New York, so I knew that whole world of theatre auditions and trying to get by. and last updated 7:15 AM, Mar 28, 2021. At least hes fighting. Mandel directed 1986s FX. Why couldnt they take you if they had John Heard? Thats strange. THE OUTSIDER is a great movie. My agent was afraid to be seen with me. For his role as Danilo Prozor in Arthur Penn's Four Friends (1981), he was nominated . You know, for a while there I had the greatest agents working for me. Action! And at that point he was the president of the Academy. The guy who made it, Danny Irom, was only about twenty years old when he made it. But I dont want that honesty to sound bitter or like a sob story. He's my Facebook friend and a fellow Eugenian! He is seen as one of the most successful Actor of all times. Its the kind of movie people want to distance themselves from. Your brothers-in-arms were getting shot for party gear. His most recent movie roles are in Akeelah and the Bee and Sasquatch Mountain, both released in 2006. (2) Samuel Wasson, born on 6 December 1871 at Tannybrake. I read your interview with John Saxon and he talks about the fact that New Line was just a baby company when they did the first movie. Dir. He did stuff like that with everybody. You know what it is? Language Label Description Also known as; English: Craig Wasson. Be on the lookout for Part 2 coming soon. Otherwise youre thinking: why are these guys such a-holes? I never really thought of Craig as a singer, but every production that I saw him in the early to mid 70's was a Musical. I had Bob Gersch whos just magnificent. So, I start my lines and she keeps talking. They kind of moved away from me, probably thinking I wasnt so bad after all. I might do that. After FOUR FRIENDS he wanted to do a movie called WEATHER WARS, which he wanted me to star in. I remember checking my number a couple of years before I became eligible and each time I came up with really low numbers. Its the guy that screams at me when I get off the bus. He completed his schooling from Sheldon High School. In 1981, he played David Wanderley, a Junior English professor in the film Ghost Story, in which his character has a torrid sexual relationship with a mysterious woman he later realizes is a ghost seeking vengeance. But after it was over, there was no applause. These guys have nothing in their lives besides their work. He wrote a rave review about it. [protected-iframe id=6c7c31a397ea950d79b2b58ec2f71d75-60970621-60061059 info=//player.vimeo.com/video/97574862 width=650 height=365 webkitallowfullscreen= mozallowfullscreen= allowfullscreen=], Picture it: Anchorage, Alaska, 1968. What was that experience like? 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