Sunday, January 26, 2014
Happy Birthday, Stan Yale
It's not normally my territory to cover unknown actors, but today marks the 77th birthday of Stan Yale, a guy who has played a homeless person more times than I can count on both hands. I stopped counting at around a dozen and the list went on. Imagine you're an extra in a film called The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bunch of people everyone else has by now forgotten, when you get typecast to play the same role, over and over. Similarly, Schwarzenegger went on to play the same role as well, that of an out of place, Austrian-born meathead. Had the casting been reversed, Stan would have been the governor of California and making love to Maria Shriver.
