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Irish-American character actor Richard Lynch, a staple of American film and television for around forty years, has died aged 76, it has been announced. After a spell in the armed forces, he took to stage acting in the 1960s and while taking LSD he accidentally set himself on fire, thus giving him the scarred face which served him so well in numerous villain roles. He made his big screen debut the next decade in Scarecrow, then went on to such notable efforts as The Seven Ups, The Happy Hooker, God Told Me To (one of his strangest roles), Stunts, Deathsport, and the start of many, many guest star roles on television - he also got to star in classic TV movie Vampire, which he claimed was his favourite role.
In the eighties he was part of the incredible bar room scene in cult classic The Ninth Configuration, the evildoer in fantasy favourite The Sword and the Sorcerer, Ruggero Deodato's Cut and Run, Russian baddie in Chuck Norris's Invasion U.S.A., Little Nikita with Sidney Poitier, not bad Elm Street rip-off Bad Dreams, Lambada flick The Forbidden Dance, Trancers II and dozens of straight to video efforts until Rob Zombie cast him in his Halloween remake, and his last film, the upcoming Lords of Salem. And that's merely scratching the surface - let us salute one of the great screen baddies. |
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