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Frank A. Silva
- Frank A. Silva (October 31, 1950 – September 13, 1995) was an American set dresser and occasional actor best known for his performance as the evil spirit Bob in the TV series Twin Peaks.
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Bob (sometimes known as BOB or Killer BOB) is a fictional character in the ABC television series Twin Peaks, played by Frank Silva. [1] He is an interdimensional entity who feeds on pain and sorrow. An inhabiting spirit, he possesses human beings and then commits acts of rape and murder in order to feast on the suffering of his victims. [ 1 ]
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- Biography
- Non-canon Appearance
- Behind The Scenes
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Early years
Following the 1945 nuclear bomb test in White Sands, New Mexico, a creature identified as "the experiment" regurgitated a stream of matter from its mouth, which included the inhabiting spirit BOB in the form of an orb. BOB took up residence in the Black Lodge and teamed up with the spirit Mike to cause chaos across Earth, feeding off the fear and pain they caused through their horrific acts in the form of garmonbozia. Albert Rosenfield once described BOB as the manifestation of "the evil that...
Inhabiting Leland Palmer
Eventually, BOB took up the identity of "Robertson" and acquired a house at Pearl Lakes. He eventually lured over Leland Palmer, a young boy who lived across from his house, and sexually abused him before possessing him. BOB remained lurking in the back of Leland's mind for years to come, even as he married a woman named Sarah, who occasionally had visions of BOB and other entities. In 1971, Sarah and Leland had a daughter named Laura, who BOB immediately saw as a candidate for his next host....
Killing spree through Leland
Years later, in 1988, Leland killed prostitute Teresa Banks after she tried to blackmail him, possibly under BOB's influence. He wrapped her body in plastic and sent her floating in a river, with the letter "T" cut out from an issue of Flesh Worldand shoved under her left ring fingernail. By 1989, BOB was prepared to leave Leland and inhabit Laura, while Laura was learning more about him and Leland was beginning to question his sanity. BOB stole some pages from Laura's secret diary and even r...
International Pilot
BOB is seen by Sarah Palmer, crouching behind Laura's bed. In the hospital's basement, BOB stands over a circle of candles and welcomes Agent Cooper and Sheriff Truman to the "killer's lair." They approach him and he asks if Mike is with them. BOB then speaks with Mike, saying "Heads up, tails up, running to be with scallywag, night falls, morning calls, catch you with my death bag." Sheriff Truman asks him what the letters found under Laura Palmer and Teresa Banks' fingers were going to spel...
The impetus for the series Twin Peaks was the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer. When production began on the pilot episode, series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost had decided that the murderer would be revealed as Leland Palmer, Laura's father. During the filming of a scene in the pilot taking place in Laura's room, Frank Silva, a set dresser...
The credits and hard on-screen subtitles always use the name "Bob" or "Killer Bob". The name "BOB" is used in all caps in Laura's secret diary,his name being an acronym and a warning in itself: "BE...
Jul 3, 2017 · Following the atomic bomb test, the same female entity we originally met in Part 2 (the one who emerged from the Glass Box to kill the lovers in New York) is seen vomiting a string of protoplasmic, placental eggs. One of these eggs, blacker than night, contains BOB’s face.
A "Twin Peaks"-like series. "Maximum Bob" is an ultra right-wing conservative judge in Florida who has a psychic ex-marine show mermaid for a wife. The sheriff is a widower who ballroom dances. The public defender is a spitfire from Miami.
Feb 27, 2024 · Who Is BOB in ‘Twin Peaks?' Set in the small town of Twin Peaks, Washington, the series examines the life of a small, closely-knit community after the high school homecoming queen Laura...
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Maximum Bob. A "Twin Peaks"-like series. "Maximum Bob" is an ultra right-wing conservative judge in Florida who has a psychic ex-marine show mermaid for a wife. The sheriff is a widower who ballroom dances. The public defender is a spitfire from Miami. And somehow, there is a family of truly ...
Jun 13, 2019 · BOB is the main antagonist of Twin Peaks and feeds off human misery, and his spirit has possessed Cooper's body for 25 years in the real world. The suggestion of this sequence is that the first atomic test summoned this creature from the other side and it birthed BOB into the world to feed on human pain.
