"There
are
no
character
actors,
just
ugly
actors."
One of the joys of my life is to sit in front of a
makeup mirror in a quiet room, studying my makeup
palette and adding layers of texture to the wrinkles
and lines of my somewhat youthful countenance.
My
great-grandfather, George Ezra Youman (1901-1991)
instilled in my soul a love of elderly rogues, and
there is a piece of him in every "old man" portrayal.
Whether it's a clearing of the throat, a hearty
laugh, or a handkerchief stuck jauntily out of a back
pocket -he's there.
A Gallery of Memories...
Tevye: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1994)
Estragon: WAITING FOR GODOT (1984)
Osgood Fielding III: SOME LIKE IT HOT (1996)
Colonel Gillweather: SOMETHING'S AFOOT (1991)
Clem Rogers: WILL ROGERS FOLLIES (1995)
Amos Hart: CHICAGO (1995)
Ed Wilson: WHAT A WAY TO GO (1994)
Honore Lachailles: GIGI (1996)
Joe: THE SHADOW BOX (1990)
Grandpa: MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1992)
Maurice Koenig: SOCIAL SECURITY (1995)
Arnold Wiggins: THE BOYS NEXT DOOR (1990)
Sen. Norvel Hedges: BORN YESTERDAY (1990)
Paravicini: THE MOUSETRAP (1997)
Paravicini: THE MOUSETRAP (1997)
Bernard: WIFE BEGINS AT 40 (1994)
Alfred P. Doolittle: MY FAIR LADY (1997)
Colonel Gillweather: SOMETHING'S AFOOT! (1991)
Arnold Wiggins: THE BOYS NEXT DOOR (1990)
(Top) As ninety-eight-year-old Maurice Koenig in
Andrew Bergman's SOCIAL SECURITY (1995)