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jpmcwjr

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Can't find a good pic anywhere online, but we're watching "Fatal Attraction" and Fred Gwynne (most famous for playing Herman Munster) is smoking a pipe, a straight lovat or lumberman or saddle-stemmed Canadian of some kind.

I did look, but trying to find pics, but no matter what you put in the search, 99.9% of the results is him playing Herman Munster, even if you tell Google the results MUST HAVE "fatal attraction" and MUST NOT HAVE "munster", etc.

The only shot I could find:
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What a fine actor, Munsters aside... I liked him best in My Cousin Vinnie.
 

sardonicus87

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Apparently, he died (too young, pancreatic cancer aged 66) in his cigar room at home. A brother of the smoke.
I read that when I looked him up after seeing that, because I was curious if he was a pipe smoker, because in the movie, he's legitimately smoking the pipe, no Hollywood trickery or anything. I'm assuming he did smoke a pipe at least a little, considering he apparently had a smoke room and looked to know what he was doing with it in that one scene.

This was one of only two scenes he's in for that movie. Immediately after that still image above, him and Micheal Douglas's character walk up the stairs and you can see the pipe pretty well if anyone happens to have the movie or wants to look it up, it's fairly early-on in the movie, maybe 1/4 of the way through, or in thr first half at least.
 

Hillcrest

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I read that when I looked him up after seeing that, because I was curious if he was a pipe smoker, because in the movie, he's legitimately smoking the pipe, no Hollywood trickery or anything. I'm assuming he did smoke a pipe at least a little, considering he apparently had a smoke room and looked to know what he was doing with it in that one scene.

This was one of only two scenes he's in for that movie. Immediately after that still image above, him and Micheal Douglas's character walk up the stairs and you can see the pipe pretty well if anyone happens to have the movie or wants to look it up, it's fairly early-on in the movie, maybe 1/4 of the way through, or in thr first half at least.
There are many stills of him smoking cigarettes and cigars on google so he was definitely a smoker. His best friend Al Lewis (grandpa = Count Vladimir Dracula) smoked cigars.
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xrundog

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I watched part of Clue last night and got a good cap of Christopher Lloyd smoking a generic billiard.
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This morning I watched The Seven Percent Solution. Here’s Watson and Holmes on the train.
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Here’s a better shot of Watson’s blasted lovat. Possibly a Charatan. Freud smokes a short Robusto. The pipes aren’t period correct, but they’re smoking pipes so A for the effort.

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dd57chevy

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Just watched "Convicted" w/Glenn Ford . 3 or 4 scenes w Broderick Crawford lighting a pipe , one scene where he's briefly actually smoking it . Appeared to have good technique .
Pretty good movie if you're into "film noir" .
 

Sobrbiker

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Watching Apollo 13: Survival on Netflix. Great actual footage.

Quite a few pipes in the crowd shots while we were waiting for the reentry radio blackout to end.

A couple of the Houston Mission Controllers:
Nice saddle stemmed bulldog (didn’t see any shots of the obverse/markings):
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This gent has a tin and his backup pipe on his control desk:
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PaulRVA

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Watching Apollo 13: Survival on Netflix. Great actual footage.

Quite a few pipes in the crowd shots while we were waiting for the reentry radio blackout to end.

A couple of the Houston Mission Controllers:
Nice saddle stemmed bulldog (didn’t see any shots of the obverse/markings):
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This gent has a tin and his backup pipe on his control desk:
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Looks like a Tin of Capstan Blue Ready Rubbed. Excellent movie !
 

dd57chevy

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There is a scene in "The Stranger" (1946) where Edward G Robinson is smoking in the general/drug store .
He's blowing smoke like a steam locomotive ! My mouth hurt just watching .
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