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Dave760

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George Zucco appears to have been a pipe smoker, handling a pipe in like an expert in various movies.

In Shelock Holmes in Washington, his pipe is important in one scene (although he has to light it with a paper match for the story).

The Black Raven opens with him smoking a pipe.

In The Mad Monster there's a crazy old woman who smokes a pipe as well.
 
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jpmcwjr

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IMDB.com doesn't show a Robinson in the cast at all. Can you clarify?
Or say what other parts has he played in what films?

Tim Robbins (Shawshank, need I say more), I think he’s the PBS news guy.
Ah! Tim Robbins! Favorite is Bull Durham (5/5) but he's got a stable of good flicks including, of course, Shawshank.
 

HawkeyeLinus

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Nicholas Cage has one for awhile in "Butcher's Crossing" - I assume for accuracies' sake, he doesn't have one as the movie progresses because he inevitably runs out of tobacco.
 
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orvet

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Lately I have been watching a number of old Western movies, including several John Wayne movies. There are a number of supporting characters who smoke pipes in his movies. Sometimes there are multiple pipes smokers. Aha, the good old days!
 

Raisedbands

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It may have been posted earlier, but this time of year makes me want to point out Jimmy Stewart and the Christmas great, “It’s a Wonderful Life. The scene midway or toward the end in the Bailey Building and Loan office, before he goes home for Christmas Eve, he is smoking a pipe carrying a Christmas wreath around the office (just before his life’s troubles intensify:) That scene really makes you understand why directors are wary of pipes with regard to “continuity issues”. But is still a great scene in a great movie. (I try to watch it every year…maybe it will be tonight!)
 

Epip Oc'Cabot

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In the new film, “The Holdovers” Paul Giamatti portrays a pipe smoking teacher in this movie set in the early 1970s. A very good film.
 

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Not sure it should count, but saw a crappy movie last night, Slay Belles (2018), Barry Bostwick as Santa briefly sticks an unlit corncob pipe in his mouth in one scene.