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Post by Arch Stanton on Mar 30, 2024 22:06:54 GMT
Sad news, even at the good age of 87.
I read this today. I always liked Lou Gossett Jnr and if he was in something then that was always a real plus positive and I would rent or buy movies based on the fact he was in it.
Looked the same all the way through his career, never changed.
I remember him mostly from his 80s stuff but he was in good stuff throughout his career, including gems like The White Dawn in 1971 and Midnight Sting in 1992.
He’s got over 200 credits on IMDb. A mixture of both TV and Film.
RIP Lou.
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Post by metro1962 on Mar 30, 2024 22:33:48 GMT
He was great in Enemy Mine.
RIP Louis
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Post by spacecadet on Mar 30, 2024 23:11:10 GMT
Over 200 acting credits going back to 1957 - very impressive. I've got him on disc in episodes of Alias Smith and Jones plus The Six Million Dollar Man.
RIP Louis.
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Post by ltd on Mar 31, 2024 7:13:08 GMT
I enjoyed Iron Eagle II and III, even though the planes were often wrong (Israeli Phantoms standing in for Soviet Mig-29s being particularly unconvincing). He always brought a degree of gravitas to the part of Col. Chappy Sinclair which made the films watchable.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Mar 31, 2024 16:14:06 GMT
I enjoyed Iron Eagle II and III, even though the planes were often wrong (Israeli Phantoms standing in for Soviet Mig-29s being particularly unconvincing). He always brought a degree of gravitas to the part of Col. Chappy Sinclair which made the films watchable. I think I only ever saw one of those and I can never remember which one. It was okay. |
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Post by ltd on Mar 31, 2024 17:30:21 GMT
I think I only ever saw one of those and I can never remember which one. It was okay. Not classics by any means, but showed a certain amount of inventiveness that stopped them degenerating into Top Gun clones e.g. IE3 had WW2 aces in vintage prop planes vs South American drug barons and their escaped Nazi war criminal mate piloting his custom built never-got-off-the-drawing board Wunderwaffe. Quite mad really. |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Mar 31, 2024 17:39:34 GMT
I think I only ever saw one of those and I can never remember which one. It was okay. Not classics by any means, but showed a certain amount of inventiveness that stopped them degenerating into Top Gun clones e.g. IE3 had WW2 aces in vintage prop planes vs South American drug barons and their escaped Nazi war criminal mate piloting his custom built never-got-off-the-drawing board Wunderwaffe. Quite mad really. Sounds more fun than I’d thought. I certainly don’t recall seeing that one. |
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Post by ltd on Mar 31, 2024 18:11:12 GMT
Not classics by any means, but showed a certain amount of inventiveness that stopped them degenerating into Top Gun clones e.g. IE3 had WW2 aces in vintage prop planes vs South American drug barons and their escaped Nazi war criminal mate piloting his custom built never-got-off-the-drawing board Wunderwaffe. Quite mad really. Sounds more fun than I’d thought. I certainly don’t recall seeing that one. It's the best of the two I've seen, although the second one where US and Soviet pilots team up to bomb the hell out of an unnamed middle eastern country that doesn't remotely resemble Iraq is ok. Possibly hasn't aged well. Gossett helps keep the whole farrago together. |
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Post by mybodyguard on Apr 1, 2024 10:43:31 GMT
He did a lot of TV appearances early in nis career, then mostly in lower tier films, but he always elevated anything he was in. An Officer and A Gentleman may have been his most memorable role, where he won an Oscar and a Golden Globe. RIP
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Post by metro1962 on Apr 1, 2024 11:03:10 GMT
I have always thought that an Officer and a Gentleman was rubbish plotwise a bit like the Tom Cruise movies of the 1980s but he made it a lot better watch then it should have been.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Apr 2, 2024 7:38:08 GMT
Sounds more fun than I’d thought. I certainly don’t recall seeing that one. It's the best of the two I've seen, although the second one where US and Soviet pilots team up to bomb the hell out of an unnamed middle eastern country that doesn't remotely resemble Iraq is ok. Possibly hasn't aged well. Gossett helps keep the whole farrago together. That’s the one I saw I think. I thought there were Russians in it. |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Apr 2, 2024 8:12:02 GMT
I remember really enjoying El Diablo (1990) that was a lot of fun but not seen for 30+ years probably. Need to rewatch that comedy western. IIRC Lou’s horse has some problem with its hearing or something and has to have cotton balls inserted in its ears because it doesn’t like loud bangs like gunfire, so it’s deaf and doesn’t obey commands. Something daft like that.
It was silly but a lot of fun that western.
Plus, The Principal (1987) is a classic.
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Post by westldner on Apr 29, 2024 0:28:07 GMT
RIP, not sure who this guy is, he seems really great. The only show I know him from is Stargate-SG 1. I'm also surprised he's voiced a character in the hit game Half Life 2. He really has a good sense of humor to who he has voiced there. Maybe give me some motivation to play that game because that game is too over-hyped in my opinion.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Apr 29, 2024 7:09:10 GMT
RIP, not sure who this guy is, he seems really great. The only show I know him from is Stargate-SG 1. I'm also surprised he's voiced a character in the hit game Half Life 2. He really has a good sense of humor to who he has voiced there. Maybe give me some motivation to play that game because that game is too over-hyped in my opinion. STOP ✋🏻 Westy, don’t play Half Life 2, just watch Midnight Sting, you’ll love it. |
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