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I still remember his doomed blackmailer from Columbo's Double Exposure.
"I use a nickel"
Rip Chuck
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I still remember his doomed blackmailer from Columbo's Double Exposure.
More like "dumb" blackmailer!
I love his response when he realizes that Keppel not only isn't going to pay him (surprise!), but murder him:
"Oh, c'mon. You must be kidding"
LOL!
brm
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He was known for his impersonation of Oliver Hardy. Anybody remember that feature film he did called "The Projectionist"?
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In THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, “John Singer” (Alan Arkin) is a deaf mute who works as a silverware engraver in a small southern town. When his only companion, a retarded mute, “Spiros Antonapoulos” (Chuck McCann, in his onscreen feature film debut), is committed to a mental institution, Singer moves to another town in order to be near his friend.
Comedian Jackie Vernon was initially cast in role ultimately played by Chuck McCann. Unable to find white suits large enough to fit McCann, Warner Bros. costumers had him wear old suits previously worn by studio character actor Sydney Greenstreet. Robert Ellis Miller directed this adaptation of Carson McCullers’ 1940 novel. Dave Grusin’s score for the 1968 film was released on a Warner Bros. LP. Film Score Monthly released an expanded version of the soundtrack in 2009.
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THE PROJECTIONIST opens at the Midtown Theater in Manhattan, where the short subject cartoon is interrupted when the film strip breaks, causing the audience to erupt in boos and hisses. In the projection booth, projectionist “Chuck McCann” quickly rethreads the film while listening to a radio news report about an elderly man attacked on the Lower East Side. Chuck then imagines himself witnessing the attack. Hurrying into a phone booth, he clumsily begins to pull off his clothes, revealing his “Capt. Flash” hero suit underneath.
Throughout the film, “Chuck’s” fantasies are shown in black and white, while the present-day reality of the theater scenes are shown in color. The “Capt. Flash” sequences are presented without dialogue in the style of silent films. THE PROJECTIONIST features clips from many films, which are woven into the story at various points--for example, when Chuck, as Capt. Flash, actually appears to enter the Rick’s Café Americain scene from CASABLANCA. When Chuck leaves the Midtown Theater after finishing work, the marquis reads: “THE PROJECTIONIST starring Chuck McCann, Ina Balin and Rodney Dangerfield.” Many of the actors play dual roles, as theater employees in the theater scenes, and as characters in Chuck's fantasies.
Rodney Dangerfield made his film debut in the film. Independent filmmaker/artist Harry Hurwitz filmed THE PROJECTIONIST in New York in four weeks, then spent a year and a half editing it. The project was a cooperative effort of the cast and crew by which all the cast and crew members drew minimal salaries in return for a percentage of the film. Igor Kantor and Irma E. Levin scored the 1971 film.
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In THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, “John Singer” (Alan Arkin) is a deaf mute who works as a silverware engraver in a small southern town. When his only companion, a retarded mute, “Spiros Antonapoulos” (Chuck McCann, in his onscreen feature film debut), is committed to a mental institution, Singer moves to another town in order to be near his friend.
Comedian Jackie Vernon was initially cast in role ultimately played by Chuck McCann. Unable to find white suits large enough to fit McCann, Warner Bros. costumers had him wear old suits previously worn by studio character actor Sydney Greenstreet. Robert Ellis Miller directed this adaptation of Carson McCullers’ 1940 novel. Dave Grusin’s score for the 1968 film was released on a Warner Bros. LP. Film Score Monthly released an expanded version of the soundtrack in 2009.
A terribly underrated feature film, and proves that both Alan Arkin could play an audibly impaired mute person and McCann could play a mentally challenged person.
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Double post.
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JENNIFER ON MY MIND is a 1971 black comedy that begins when "Marcus" (Michael Brandon), a nice, rich, Jewish boy from New York City, meets and falls in love with "Jennifer" (Tippy Walker), a girl from Oyster Bay, while they are both in Venice. Chuck McCann had a supporting role as a "Good Samaritan" in the film. Noel Black (PRETTY POISON) directed from a script by Erich Segal (LOVE STORY). Stephen J. Lawrence's score did not get a release.
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In the psychological drama PLAY IT AS IT LAYS, Tuesday Weld plays "Maria," the estranged actress wife of self-absorbed film director "Carter Lang" (Adam Roarke). One day, after Maria announces that she is pregnant, Carter asks if the baby’s father is screenwriter "Les Goodwin" (Richard Anderson). Furious, Carter packs his bags and moves out of the house. Before leaving, he gives Maria the telephone number of a discreet abortionist. The abortionist is played by Norman Foster, while Chuck McCann plays the abortionist's assistant. Frank Perry directed this 1972 film, which John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion scripted from her 1970 novel. The film did not have an original score.
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In Disney's sequel to THE LOVE BUG, 1974's HERBIE RIDES AGAIN, Helen Hayes plays "Mrs. Steinmetz," whose modest house stands in the way of a massive construction project by developer "Alonzo Hawk" (Keenan Wynn). At one point, Hawk orders "Loostgarten" (Chuck McCann), the owner of a wrecking ball company, to destroy her house without a permit, and Mrs. Steinmetz pummels the man with window cleaner. Robert Stevenson directed the film, and George Bruns provided the unreleased score.
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