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"Very good, Fisher...you win a cookie!" - Crapgame, Kellys Heroes.
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What Jim Phelps and ANZALDIMAN have already posted sums it up beautifully for me. Thanks, guys!
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After 3 years of mostly off-screen television work (as an announcer), Don Rickles made his feature film debut (and received a poster credit) in the 1958 World War II submarine drama RUN SILENT RUN DEEP. Rickles had the supporting role of "Petty Officer 1st Class Ruby." Frank Gorshin was originally due to test for the role, but refused to fly to the testing. Instead, he drove and was involved in an accident, leaving him with a fractured skull. He spent four days in a hospital, and awoke to find that the role had been given to Rickles.
The film’s production company, Jeffrey Productions, Inc., was a subsidiary of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, headed by producer Harold Hecht, writer James Hill, and actor Burt Lancaster. The Navy Department shipped more than $500,000 worth of instruments and equipment for use in the submarine interior sets for RUN SILENT RUN DEEP, resulting in no "mock-ups" or "dummy" instruments being used in the underwater combat scenes. According to Rickles, Burt Lancaster took the technical aspects of the production very seriously, always inquiring what the various dials and gauges meant. Rickles humored the star by saying that he was interested, too.
Robert Wise directed the film, which had an unreleased score by Franz Waxman.
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Rickles had a small role in the 1959 Ernest Borgnine family drama THE RABBIT TRAP. Philip Leacock directed the film, which had an unreleased score by Jack Marshall.
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In 1960's THE RAT RACE, saxophonist "Pete Hammond, Jr." (Tony Curtis) leaves his hometown of Milwaukee to find his fortune in New York City. He meets a talented dancer, "Peggy" (Debbie Reynolds), who is forced to earn her rent as a taxi dancer at a dive run by unscrupulous "Nelson Miller" (Don Rickles), known as "Nelly." Robert Mulligan directed the comedy-drama. Elmer Bernstein's score was released by Kritzerland in 2012.
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Don Rickles had a supporting role in the 1963 science fiction thriller "X" -- THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES. Rickles played "Crane," a carnival owner who exploits the strange power of x-ray eyesight of "Dr. James Xavier" (Ray Milland). Roger Corman directed the film. Les Baxter's score was released by La-La Land in 2011.
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The last time I saw him was on Dave Letterman's finale.
He was sitting on the guest couch ,next to Howard Stern, and the two of engaged in conversation as if Dave wasn't even there!
Hilarious!
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Great in Casino too!
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Apr 6, 2017 - 5:28 PM
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dragon53
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As Bob Dimucci mentioned, Rickles had his first acting role in RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP.
Rickles in KELLY'S HEROES.
Also, some submarine trivia: the novel RUN SILENT RUN DEEP, which the movie was based on, was written by Edward Beach, who was an officer on the USS Tirante (SS-420) in World War II. Other Tirante officers included George Street III (Medal of Honor recipient), Endicott Peabody (governor of Massachusetts) and actor Theo Marcuse who appeared in the classic THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "To Serve Man" and on the "Catspaw" episode of STAR TREK.
USS Tirante
Theo Marcuse (Russian ambassador to the UN, raising his hand) in "To Serve Man", THE TWILIGHT ZONE.
Theo Marcuse in "Catspaw", STAR TREK
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Four months after MUSCLE BEACH PARTY came BIKINI BEACH. This time Rickles was "Big Drag," the operator of a teenagers' hangout. Big Drag also had a talking hawk named "Frieda." William Asher again directed, and Les Baxter provided the unreleased score for the 1964 film. Annette Funicello released another song LP on Buena Vista.
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