Veteran Actor, Gregory Walcott, who had starred in such vintage movies as Mister Roberts, The Eiger Sanction, Norma Rae and Ed Wood’s lamentable Plan 9 From Outer Space, has died aged 87.
According to his son, Todd Mattox, who took to facebook to reveal the incident, Walcott, who acted as pilot Jeff Trent in Plan 9, considered one of the worst films ever made, died Friday at his home.
Walcott had in 1998 in an interview, recalled being asked by a friend, fledgling producer J. Edwards Reynolds, about starring in a sci-fi film opposite Bela Lugosi. “But Ed, Bela Lugosi is dead,” he noted.
Indeed, the horror legend had died in 1956, but footage of him shot by writer-director Wood would be used in the 1959 ultra-low-budget movie.
“I refused at first,” Walcott said in the interview. “I read the script, and it was gibberish. It made no sense, but I saw Ed Reynolds as a naive, sweet man. I had done some pretty good things prior to that, so I thought I had a little credibility in Hollywood. I thought maybe my name would give the show some credibility. … The film was made surreptitiously. My agent didn’t even know I did it.”
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