When you see him, who do you think of? Thought sure someone would say Kirk Douglas or Burt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Lancaster. Damn I’m old!

[meadowlark5]

1. Wasn't he the guy who played the Riddler on Batman?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. Yes! 👍🏻

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Frank Gorshin. NT

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. That's right! 👍🏻

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. My fave Batman TV series bad guy was Victor Buono.

Victor Buono

Victor Charles Buono (February 3, 1938 – January 1, 1982) was an American actor, comic, and briefly a recording artist. He was known for playing the villain King Tut on the television series Batman (1966–1968) and musician Edwin Flagg in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the latter of which earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. He was a busy actor from his late teens until his death at age 43 and, with his large size and sonorous voice, he made a career of playing men much older than he was.....

Television roles
....

Buono played the villain King Tut on the television series Batman. A Jekyll-and-Hyde character, William McElroy is a timid Yale professor of Egyptology who, after being hit in the head with a brick at a peace rally, assumes the persona of the charismatic, monomaniacal Egyptian King Tut. When he suffers another blow to the head, the villain recovers his meek academic personality. The role, which proved to be the most frequently featured original villain in the series, was one of Buono's favorites because he was delighted at being able to overact without restraint.
....

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Awesome in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. I think I have that on VHS, and, further, I think I know where it is.

I actually taped a program yesterday. I have no way of saving digital over-the-air TV shows to hard drive or whatever. I don't have a DVR with a built-in tuner. I don't have any DVR.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. Amazon is going to introduce an over the air digital recorder later this year.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

24. It looks as if it's possible to record over-the-air digital broadcasts now.

Channel Master CM-7004 ConverterBox

Description Technical Specifications FAQ's & Support Docs

ConverterBox is a versatile, low-cost TV box that fills many needs for today's TV household. For the consumer with older analog TV's, ConverterBox will allow them to receive and display digital signals from a TV antenna on their analog TV set. For the consumer with digital TV's, ConverterBox will allow them to add a simple channel guide and a high quality universal remote control.

ConverterBox will also allow users to turn a computer monitor into a TV set. The internal ATSC tuner will receive and deliver live over-the-air TV programming to devices that do not contain a TV tuner.

Ultra low power consumption caps off the performance of this very small and unobtrusive product.
....

Rear Panel
RF In/Out for Channel 3/4
One USB - 2.0 Port
Composite/Audio RCA
HDMI - 1.3a port (with HDCP 1.3)
DC Power Plug

HDMI and USB outputs? Hmmmm.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. Most of the over the air antennas I've seen have only a coaxial cable. My old analog sets have rca,

coax and a couple composite.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. Right. USB out and HDMI out are digitally encoded. You could save the signal

to a device with a hard drive.

Channel Master has other devices in its catalog. F'r instance:

An OTA DVR and Streaming Box for Antenna Owners

Subscription-free OTA DVR*
Pause, rewind and record live TV.
Schedule single recording
or an entire series.

*DVR Requires 1TB External
Hard Drive (not included)

[peekaloo]

15. Damn he was only 43 when he died!

I saw an old 'Tonight Show' rerun a couple of months back and he came on to read his poetry. Mostly about how much he loved to eat. Funny!

King Tut was my second favorite villain, second only to the Joker.

[red dog 1]

29. According to Wikipedia, he was 72 when he died (April 5, 1933 - May 17, 2005)

[peekaloo]

37. ?

I got the same info as above when I looked it up. 1933-1982.



on edit: I see the confusion now, I was commenting on Victor Buono not Frank Gorshin.

[left-of-center2012]

5. I think ...

Why was this posted?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. To confuse you!

[left-of-center2012]

8. I'm not confused

It wasted my time.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Then why bother responding?

More time wasted!

[Cirque du So-What]

10. Tick-tock...

From all indications, it's still working

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Excuse me, but would you repeat that? Thank you. NT

[gratuitous]

16. Tut tut*

Puzzled* for a spell*? You didn't get the riddle*? Then I guess the joke's* on you. Best get a book* and a cat* and waddle off* to the drawing room for some nice piano* and minstrel* music. You'll want a fire so you don't freeze*; perhaps put on a hat* and wait for a visit from the Sandman*.

*Bat-villain reference.

[Iggo]

17. To me, he'll always be The Riddler. (n/t)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. A great one! 👍🏻

[Iggo]

19. Now that you metion it, though, (or rather, now that I'm paying attention)...

He does look like a cross between Douglas and Lancaster.

(Also, a lightning bolt just hit me from back in the 60s. Frank Gorshin did mad impressions. I bet you can find him somewhere out there doing a passable version of each.)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. For your viewing pleasure, I give you......

[Iggo]

23. A twofer, right up front!

[Dave Starsky]

21. All of his impersonations were great.

But his Burt and Kirk were my favorites. Dead on and absolutely hilarious.

He is, IMHO, the greatest impressionist of all time. Rich Little had nothing on him. The way Gorshin was able to snap his whole body and voice instantly from character to character was less like other conventional comics of the day and more like Jim Carrey or Robin Williams, which is why he was also such a great Riddler.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. Absolutely! 👍🏻

[red dog 1]

27. He was a heavy smoker, consuming up to five packs a day

Adam West once claimed that "Frank could reduce a cigarette to ash with one draw."

[Floyd R. Turbo]

28. Man! 😢

[red dog 1]

30. He was on the Ed Sullivan Show 12 times,

including February 9, 1964, the same night The Beatles first appeared on the Sullivan show.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

31. Wow! Great trivia! 👍🏻

[red dog 1]

32. Davy Jones also appeared on that Sullivan show

[Harker]

36. My fifth birthday.

Saw it on the old b&w Silvertone TV.

And yes, I think of Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster. And The Riddler.

[Bayard]

33. Wasn't he also....

The half white face, half black face alien on the original Star Trek?

Yes! Just found it:

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. A great episode about the stupidity of bigotry!

[enid602]

35. Gorshin

I think Gorshin looks like James Cagney in that picture.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

38. He does!👍🏻

[malthaussen]

39. From that angle, yeah...

... Mr Gorshin does look a bit like Mr Douglas.

-- Mal

[Floyd R. Turbo]

40. Check out the video!