In The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, John Cassavetes, 1976.
My Gazzara pantheon: The Strange One, 1957; Anatomy of a Murder, 1959; A Rage To Live, 1965; The Bridge at Remagen, 1969; Husbands, 1970; The Killing of a Chinese Bookie,1976; Opening Night, 1977; Saint Jack, 1979; They All Laughed, 1981; Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1982; Road House, 1989; The Spanish Prisoner, 1997; Buffalo ’66, 1998; Happiness, 1998; The Big Lebowski, 1998; Illuminata, 1998; Summer of Sam, 1999; Dogville, 2003; Paris, je t’aime (“Quartier Latin” episode), 2006.
Jackie Treehorn drew a lot of water in this town. 🙁
THEY ALL LAUGHED is such a beautiful, funny film, and he’s perfect in it.
I’m glad to see some love for THE STRANGE ONE in so many of the tributes I’ve read.
Remembering Ben Gazzara in Run for your Life is to know that good TV did not begin with the Sopranos.
Marco Ferreri’s “Tales of Ordinary Madness” is a favorite Gazzara performance of mine along with “The Killing of A Chinese Bookie.”
Peter Bogdanovich’s “Saint Jack” is also lovely.
Few actors could touch Gazzara in expressing a character who when smiling was in deep deep shit.
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