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Leave your guess(es) in the comments. I’ll drop a hint if one is needed.
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A hint: In one of his last movies, he played a version of himself.
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I’ll try one more hint: In some of his other film appearances, he wore much more makeup.
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Oh well. I’ll put the answer in the comments.
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Looks very much like Vincent Price.
ReplyDeleteNot him.
ReplyDeleteLeonid ?
ReplyDeleteAs in Kinskey? No, not him.
ReplyDeleteErrol Flynn?
ReplyDeleteDouglas Fairbanks Jr.?
ReplyDeleteNeither one.
ReplyDeleteI’ll add a hint.
ReplyDeleteThat’s Boris Karloff as “Happy” MacDonald, owner of Happy’s Club, in Night World (dir. Hobart Henley, 1932).
ReplyDeleteThe first clue references Targets (dir. Peter Bogdanovich, 1968), in which Karloff plays a fading horror-movie star making an appearance at a drive-in. The second, well, that should be obvious.