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Julian Beck (May 31, 1925 – September 14, 1985) was an American actor, stage director, poet, and painter. He is best known for co-founding and directing the Living Theatre, as well as his role as Reverend Henry Kane, the malevolent preacher in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986).
Feb 14, 2024 · Poltergeist 2 's Reverend Kane, played by Julian Beck, is an iconic horror villain despite Beck's battle with stomach cancer during filming. Beck's health condition added to the eerie appearance of Reverend Kane, making him even more terrifying on screen.
A bold, innovative, avant-garde figure in theatre who helped revolutionized the style of playwriting and acting in the 1950s and 1960s, actor/writer/producer/directer Julian Beck was certainly a odd-looking sort with his baleful, hollow eyes, stark and skullish features and near-bald dome capped by long fringes of stringy hair along the side.
Apr 27, 2024 · Julian Beck was incredibly ill during the second Poltergeist movie. MGM Entertainment Co. Arguably one of the creepiest villains in horror history, Reverend Henry Kane is the human form...
Sep 17, 1985 · Julian Beck, whose Living Theater expanded the frontiers of theatrical innovation for nearly 40 years, died of cancer Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital. He was 60 years old and lived in...
"65 years ago, Julian Beck and I found the Living Theatre, and it continues to do play after play. The Living Theatre is a company of actors who want to bring about the Beautiful Non-Violent Anarchist Revolution. We wanted to find a theatre that would grow with history and in history.
Born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City, Julian was the son of Irving, a businessman, and Mabel Lucille (Blum) Beck. Educated at the College of the City of New York, he briefly attended Yale University, but then abandoned it to pursue writing and art.
A bold, innovative, avant-garde figure in theatre who helped revolutionized the style of playwriting and acting in the 1950s and 1960s, actor/writer/producer/directer Julian Beck was certainly a odd-looking sort with his baleful, hollow eyes, stark and skullish features and near-bald dome capped by long fringes of stringy hair along the side.
Sep 14, 2011 · The actor-director, poet, painter, (co-founder of “ The Living Theater “), Julian Beck died on this day, September 14, 26 years ago [ 2024 – now 39 years ago]. Allen took this memorable shot a year earlier, when he made a visit to his “57th Street New York hospital room”.
American theatrical manager. …York City in 1947 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina. It is known for its innovative production of experimental drama, often on radical themes, and for its confrontations with tradition, authority, and sometimes audiences.
