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Jeffrey Bloomfied
Chief Inspector
Username: Mayerling
Post Number: 728
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 12:06 pm: | 
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I was sorry to see that this wonderful, usually funny character actor had passed away last week. Nobody on the Board seemed to take notice - but all "Trekkies" among might recall him. In December 1967 (according to the IMDb board) Mr. Fiedler gave a memorable performance as "Mr. Hengist", a disagreeable bureaucrat who was on the scene of several murders on board the starship "Enterprise" during a peace conference.
The murders turned out to resemble the Whitechapel Murders, and it turned out that "Mr. Hengist" was Jack the Ripper. If one recalled that Fiedler was a short, bald man with eyeglasses, his being the Ripper (outside of his being such a disagreeable character in the show) was quite a surprise, but Fiedler was a terrific actor and once he is revealed he did demonstrate the demonic personality he was supposed to be.
As I said he was better recalled for his comic roles - like in THE ODD COUPLE (on stage, in the movie, and in the television version). But he could play one impressive monster. |
Donald Souden
Chief Inspector
Username: Supe
Post Number: 624
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 12:38 pm: |
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Jeff,
Yes, he had a remarkable career as a character actor, splendidly handling any role thrown his way. I particularly remember him as the fearsome "Lawyer Daggett" in "True Grit." Only a very brief appearance, but the entire movie set him up as someone who would dwarf John Wayne himself in both size and machismo. Finally, we get to see this hombre --and it's John Fiedler.
As it is, I fear a lawyer with a writ a lot more than I do a thug with a gun.
Don.
"He was so bad at foreign languages he needed subtitles to watch Marcel Marceau."
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Jeffrey Bloomfied
Chief Inspector
Username: Mayerling
Post Number: 730
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 2:17 pm: |
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Hi Dan,
Well, don't forget that his size didn't count. We were told several times that J. Noble Daggart brought that mighty railroad to it's knees in court. That's what counts. I can see Fiedler doing that.
Jeff |
Howard Brown
Chief Inspector
Username: Howard
Post Number: 665
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 10:17 pm: |
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He was also the voice of "Piglet" in the Winnie The Pooh films [Disney].
Off the top of my head,J.B or Don...didn't he play in Twelve Angry Men as one of the jurors ? Too lazy to look myself...
HowBrown
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Jeffrey Bloomfied
Chief Inspector
Username: Mayerling
Post Number: 731
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 1:40 am: |
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Hi Howard,
Yes, he played the mild one who calls Lee J. Cobb a loudmouth at one point.
Jeff |
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