Royal Dano

We have the aforementioned in the cast, Jason Robards as Charles Holloway, Jonathan Price as Mr.

Dark, Diane Ladd as Mrs. Nightshade, Pam Greer as the Dust Witch, Vidal Peterson as Will Holloway, Sean Carson as Jim Nightshade, Royal Dano as Tom Fury, and Mary Grace Canfield as Mrs. Foley, or Miss Foley.

I have a couple things on here.

So the Roger Ebert review, because he's got the longevity, so he's done most of these movies.

I'm trying to remember the

actor who played him, but he was a writer with Mel Brooks, if memory serves me correct.

I know we haven't really talked about the other character here, but Royal Dano's character of Tom Fury.

It's like, and they're trying to find out when the storm is coming.

Well, Big Bad Mama is a 1974, they call it an action crime, sexploitation comedy film produced by Roger Corman.

It starred Angie Dickinson, Tom Skerritt, William Shatner, and of course, Royal Dano as Reverend Johnston.

Following his breakout in Robert Altman's MASH, Skerritt spent much of the 70s bouncing between prestigious projects and low-budget cult films and Well, he viewed B-movies like Roger Corman's Big Bad Mama as a steady gig, and that was to keep his household afloat.

Yeah.

Another one, Tom Fury.

That's Royal Dano.

Dude, that dude played like the drunk in every other Western movie.

Yeah.

It had a budget of $1.8 million and brought in $43.6 million at the box office.

And it stars Grant Kramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, Royal Dano, and John Vernon.

And that movie, of course, is Killer Clowns from Outer Space.

Just outside the small town of Crescent Cove, Mike Tobacco and his girlfriend Debbie Stone are spending time at the local lover's lane where they witness the arrival of a strange glowing object.

He's always solid and always great.

Um, and Royal Dano I think is a great actor too.

Mm-hmm.

And he came, seems a lit...

fun-Mm-hmm.

And the father, I don't...

It was Royal Dano or Dano.

He did a lot of work.

Uh, well, uh, we have a character searching for her father.

The father is Joseph Lang, the artist, played by Royal Dano, who lived 1922 through 1994.

Um, and this is, uh, mostly experienced in the film as a voiceover.

We keep hearing his voice talking about these things he's learning about the darkness that's coming.

And, uh, we-

I, I'm, so I'm sorry, I kept thinking the voiceover was done by Walter Matthau.

[laughs] Yeah, I mean, he sounds very different, uh, compared to how he sounded in the last Royal Dano film we talked about.

We talked about him last October because he's in 1988's Killer Klowns from Outer Space.