Thursday, 15 December 2016

Celtic Twist



What do Village of the Damned, Horse without a Head, Time Bandits, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Remains of the Day and 10th Kingdom have in common? Peter Vaughan, who passed away last week at the age of 93. If you didn’t happen to catch him in any of these, (first of all, shame on you, second, today’s a good day to remedy that), you probably know him as Maester Aemon in Game of Thrones. Most faces you see on television or in the movies are there because they’re easy on the eyes. Peter Vaughan wasn’t. Even when he was a young man he was, well, homely. But he had undeniable stage presence. Whether he played a villain or a hero, he moved the audience. He didn’t appear in his first film until he was nearly forty, but he had a career that would make most movie stars very, very jealous.

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