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John Hodiak. Actor: Lifeboat. Pittsburgh-born John Hodiak was one of several up-and-coming male talents who managed to take advantage of the dearth of WWII-era superstars (MGM's Clark Gable, Van Johnson, Robert Taylor and James Stewart, among others) who were off serving their country. John's early death at age 41, however, robbed Hollywood of a strong player and promising character star. Born ...
- April 16, 1914
- October 19, 1955
Plot – A Nazi U-Boat fires a missile at a passenger ship. The survivors seek salvation on board a boat and must rely on the expertise of Willy, the captain of the German submarine that sunk. All actors – Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee, William ...
Connie Porter: Dying together's even more personal than living together. Connie Porter: [speaking of the disaster] Reminds me of an air raid once that hit me in Chunking. John Kovac: Reminds me of a slaughterhouse I once worked in in Chicago. Those Nazi buzzards — a tin fish ain't enough. They've got to shell us too!
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- “This Is Not ‘Nam. This Is Bowling. There Are rules.”
- “You Want A toe? I Can Get You A Toe.”
- “Goodnight, Sweet Prince.”
- “F**k It, Dude. Let’s Go Bowling.”
- “Forget It, Donny, You’Re Out of Your Element!”
- “Just Because We’Re Bereaved, That Doesn’T Make Us Saps!”
- “Nobody Is Going to Cut Your D**K off. Not If I Have Anything to Say About it.”
- “Smokey, My Friend, You Are Entering A World of pain.”
- “This Is What Happens When You F**K A Stranger in The ***, Larry!”
It has been suggested that the character of Walter Sobchak was based on John Milius, the screenwriter behind such intense, testosterone-fueled Vietnam-era movies as Apocalypse Now and Big Wednesday. Milius didn’t serve in Vietnam himself, unlike Walter (who mentions his stint in ‘Nam a few times), but he did want to serve and tried to sign up. Due ...
Things get ratcheted up a notch in The Big Lebowskiwhen Bunny’s supposed kidnappers send a severed toe with her nail polish on it to the Dude. He brings it to Walter, who immediately believes it to be a fake. In fact, he doesn’t think it’s difficult to get a hold of a toe. RELATED: Where Are They Now? The Cast Of The Big Lebowski “Hell, I can get y...
Walter’s whole eulogy for Donny as he scatters his ashes is quite sweet: “Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors...and bowling. And as a surfer, he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and...up to...Pismo. He died, like so many young men of his generation....
When Walter and the Dude first try to make the drop with the briefcase full of money – except Walter has swapped out the money for his “dirty undies” – they end up crashing the car and botching the drop. Then Walter decides that, well, they tried, and there’s nothing more they can do than that, so he simply says, “f**k it, Dude. Let’s go bowling.” ...
On a number of occasions throughout the film, Walter gets very angry about whether or not Donny is in his element. At one point, Walter and the Dude have started a conversation about the political ideologies of Lenin while Donny was taking his turn in the bowling game. When he returns to sit with them, Walter doesn’t feel like catching him up on th...
The prices at funeral parlors – for both funeral services and coffins – are extortionate. That’s why many old people have to set up a savings fund towards the end of their lives, just so their family can afford a funeral service after they pass away. When Donny dies in The Big Lebowski, Walter and the Dude head over to a funeral parlor to look at s...
Walter and the Dude have virtually nothing in common apart from their shared love of bowling. They have different religions, different world views, different temperaments – but somehow, that works. That makes them best friends. RELATED: Big Lebowski 20th Anniversary Photo Reunites Bridges, Goodman, & Buscemi When the Dude is worried that violence i...
During a league bowling game, when Walter sees Smokey’s foot go over the line while he’s taking a shot, he demands that he mark it down. Everyone else says that a foot possibly creeping over the line isn’t a big deal, but Walter insists that it is, because the game counts towards the upcoming tournament and there are specified rules in the game of ...
Apparently, the Coen brothers based the storyline in which a teenager’s homework is found in the Dude’s impounded car on something that happened to a real-life friend of theirs. When the kid, Larry, refuses to explain how his homework ended up in the Dude’s car, Walter goes out and smashes the sports car that he thinks belongs to Larry and yells,“T...
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John Hodiak (/ ˈ h oʊ. d iː. æ k / HOH-dee-ak; April 16, 1914 – October 19, 1955) was an American actor who worked in radio, stage and film. Early life [ edit ] Hodiak was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, the son of Anna (Pogorzelec) and Walter Hodiak.
Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck. It stars Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix, alongside Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee.
Lifeboat (1944) -- (Movie Clip) One Of Them Shell Shock Cases Early on, players gathering after the liner is sunk by the U-Boat, nurse Mary Anderson, sailor William Bendix, oiler John Hodiak, magnate Henry Hull, journalist Tallulah Bankhead, crewman Hume Cronyn, then mother Heather Angel and German Walter Slezak, in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat ...
