Pipe Sighting at the Movies
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What a fine actor, Munsters aside... I liked him best in My Cousin Vinnie.
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.
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.
Let us not forget that Fred was also a regular in the show Car 54 Where Are You?
I watched part of Clue last night and got a good cap of Christopher Lloyd smoking a generic billiard.
This morning I watched The Seven Percent Solution. Here’s Watson and Holmes on the train.
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.
This morning I watched The Seven Percent Solution. Here’s Watson and Holmes on the train.
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.
From a TV Programme rather than a film but here's two shots from the first season of The Terror (2018).
Hutch from Rosemary's Baby smokes a straight billiard on a few occasions and carries a leather baccy pouch. He also bears a resemblance to C.S. Lewis, in my opinion.
I like to relax watching vintage movies . There are 6 or 7 Crime Doctor movies with Warner Baxter smoking a pipe in various scenes .
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):
This gent has a tin and his backup pipe on his control desk:
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):
This gent has a tin and his backup pipe on his control desk:
This was the ‘24 documentary, just in case you’re thinking of the Tom Hanks Apollo 13.
No actors, real drama as it unfolds.
Awe
I didn’t know a new documentary had been made. I’ll have to look it up and watch it ! Thanks for the info on it.
Awesome,
I didn’t know a new documentary had been made. I’ll have to look it up and watch it ! Thanks for the info on it.
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 .
He's blowing smoke like a steam locomotive ! My mouth hurt just watching .
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Been watching "Maigret" , a somewhat tame British show (circa 1960) about a French police inspector . Many won't find it thrilling (he's not exactly Clint Eastwood in "Dead Pool" 
) but he is smoking a pipe in at least half the scenes .
) but he is smoking a pipe in at least half the scenes .