29 December 2005

Actor Vincent Schiavelli Dead at 57

"Vincent Schiavelli's face, the actor once said, was his calling card.

Schiavelli, whose long, gangly, almost sad features graced some 150 TV shows and movies, most memorably Ghost, died Monday of lung cancer in Italy, where he had been living. He was 57.

...his biggest success, 1990's Ghost. His turn as the angry spirit who haunts New York's subway cars, and eventually helps Patrick Swayze adjust to life on the other side...

...Post-Ghost credits included Batman Returns, Tomorrow Never Dies (as a Bond villain), and Death to Smoochy. ..."

Too bad. He was the kind of actor that you cannot not like. Well, I'll drink a cup of coffee for good old Mr. Vargas.