Obit: Frank Campanella @ 87...Mook the Moon Man on "Captain Video"

[CrankyYankee]

Frank Campanella, who played hulking tough guys in more than 100 films and TV shows, died Saturday Dec. 30 in his L.A. San Fernando Valley home. He was 87.
"He always wanted to be an actor and kind of influenced me," said his older brother, actor Joseph Campanella.

One of Frank Campanella's most distinctive roles was his first -- Mook the Moon Man on the TV series "Captain Video and His Video Rangers" in 1949.

On television, he appeared on such shows as "The Fall Guy," "Hardcastle and McCormick," "St. Elsewhere," "The Love Boat," "Barnaby Jones," "Maude," "The Rockford Files," "All in the Family," "Kojak," "Route 66" and "Quincy M.E."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117956645.html?categoryId=25&cs=1

 

[easttxtv]

Read the Variety link....Campanella was also 'Pops', a bartender at the Blue Banana from "Pretty Woman".

'....This ain't a buffet, Kit!!'

 

[Ultimajock]

...in the opening sequence to SECONDS, a man follows John Randolph through Grand Central Station and slaps a slip of paper into Randolph's open hand as the commuter train he has just boarded is about to pull out. The audience never sees the man's full face (only eyes and a hat) and, as the train pulls out, Randolph looks back at the man, not quite knowing what to make of him, from a window. That man was played by Frank Campanella. Along with Cary Loftin's malicious truck driver in DUEL (of which we see only his boots and left hand), it's one of the sparsest but memorable portrayals of a truly evil character I've ever seen in a motion picture...