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Post by ace5150 on May 24, 2016 14:46:18 GMT
..........85, a decent innings.
Burt was always a reliable actor, I liked him as Cato, but am sure many others here will share their own favourite films.
RIP Burt, and thanks for the memories
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Post by jno on May 24, 2016 15:43:19 GMT
Fair play to Burt, he made something dreadful a whole lot better.
Was just watching The Sentimental Agent the other night for which we don't have a thread here. RIP Burt.
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Post by swainy on May 24, 2016 15:43:45 GMT
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Post by daz on May 24, 2016 16:27:21 GMT
A shame, had a very versatile career and appeared in lots of stuff, must have been the main go to Chinese actor in the UK for many a year.
A good innings, but still a shame.
RIP
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Deus est regit qui omnia.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 16:30:27 GMT
A very familiar face in films and TV for well over 50 years.
RIP Burt.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 16:52:04 GMT
Kato- not now you fool!
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Post by Arch Stanton on May 24, 2016 19:46:04 GMT
Yes RIP Burt.
One of those actors that was a token presence over the last 40yrs+. Always welcome in any production that I watch.
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Post by ltd on May 25, 2016 5:50:19 GMT
I watched him most recently as the hot dog vendor in Deep End. Never going to be one of his best remembered parts, but I liked the way he seemed equal parts dead pan and bemused as John Moulder-Brown's character kept coming back, always with the same order.
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Post by pr1 on May 25, 2016 16:55:15 GMT
He was always a good prescense in anything he appeared in. He is one of the actors I always enjoy seeing turn up in a movie or tv show regardless of how big a part he had.
Rest In Peace.
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Post by ltd on May 25, 2016 20:05:35 GMT
I know it was a dreadful programme and probably racist, but I used to like his zen style voiceovers on Banzai. Made a good contrast with the other really manic bloke. I remember one stunt featuring a bunch of unprepossessing goths drinking snakebite and black. Cue Burt's mock reverential intro: "This is Goth-man. Some say Goth-man endangered species. Others say this no bad thing." All in the delivery of course. Brilliant.
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Post by Portland Road on May 30, 2016 10:06:32 GMT
He also did a lot of ITC - in those days of stock footage and re-used props, he was ever the reliable oriental player.
RIP Bert Kwouk, one of the old school.
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Post by gustav on Jun 7, 2016 10:47:14 GMT
Burt was never out of work, every casting director who wanted a Japanese commandant, a Chinese Red Guard, a shady oriental businessman or spy, in fact anyone vaguely oriental, got him. He always did a good job despite the limitations of some of the rubbish that he had to do.
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