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  Non-Film Score Discussion: Joss Ackland RIP 1928-2023   Last Post 
 Posted:   Nov 19, 2023 - 2:43 PM   
 By:   litefoot   (Member)

An acting great passes, aged 95.

An acting legend in the UK on both stage and screen but probably best known in the US for the words 'diplomatic immunity!' in Lethal Weapon 2!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67469247

 
 Posted:   Nov 19, 2023 - 5:54 PM   
 By:   DJS   (Member)

"Diplomatic immunityyy!"

 
 Posted:   Nov 19, 2023 - 5:57 PM   
 By:   DJS   (Member)

Also the voice of the Black Rabbit in Watership Down.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 19, 2023 - 8:50 PM   
 By:   dragon53   (Member)

I just watched him in ROUGH CUT last week, but I remember him most from THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.

 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2023 - 5:06 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)



Stellar in everything i saw him in.
Particularly good in Tinker Tailor and Operation Daybreak. A real pro.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2023 - 5:08 AM   
 By:   Indy1981   (Member)

I remember him playing a memoir-writing double agent in a particularly amusing episode of "The Persuaders!", not to mention about 50 other TV show appearances.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2023 - 8:37 AM   
 By:   Rozsaphile   (Member)

Perfect as C. S. Lewis in the original Shadowlands telefilm. Closer to the mark than either Nigel Hawthorne (stage) or Anthony Hopkins (cinema).

 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2023 - 7:31 PM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

I too was first introduced to him in the superior version of "Shadowlands". Not only was he closer to the actual C.S. Lewis, the TV production was a far more accurate telling of the C.S. Lewis-Joy Gresham story than either the stage or the film version.

 
 Posted:   Dec 18, 2023 - 3:27 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Just been watching him in Villain, with Richard Burton, 1971, where he plays a criminal. Really excellent

 
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