Joe Turkel, the actor who brought to life the menacing waiter of the Overlook Hotel in “The Shining”, He died at the age of 94. His family informed the media that Turkel died peacefully with his children on June 27 at St. John’s Hospital in the UK. Turkel was born on July 15, 1927 in Brooklyn and moved to California in 1947 to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. His first big screen work was in the 1948 film Tell Me Who Are You Dating “directed by Maxwell Shane, along with small roles in William Castle’s” Weed “,” Sword in the Desert “or” Angels in Disguise “. ‘
Worked 3 times under Stanley Kubrick: in ‘Perfect Heist’ in 1956, in ‘Paths of Glory’ with Kirk Douglas, and of course in “The Shining”, where he served an already disturbed Jack Torrance a drink (Jack Nicholas) from the beyond.
The Tyrell of the Tyrell Corporation
Another of his most recognizable characters is that of Doctor Eldon Tyrell in “Blade Runner”, the creator of artificial humans, the replicants. Ridley Scott’s masterpiece is precisely his latest work on the big screen, as he later only starred in the direct-to-video film ‘The hidden face of the moon’ in 1990 and episodes in the series ‘Tales from the dark’ and ‘Corruption in Miami’.
Turkel has also had roles in titles such as “The Commitment”, “Wild in the Sky”, “Five Wild Men”, “Justice for the Damned”, “The People of the Giants”, “The Insatiable”, “The Yellow Canary “. ‘or’ Here Come the Jets’; as well as participating in the television series “The Lone Ranger”, “Rin Tin Tin”, “Criminal Identification”, “US Marshal”, “The Untouchables” and “Bonanza”. Before he died, Turkel had finished writing his memoir, entitled “The Misery of Success”, that his family plans to publish by the end of the year.
Source: E Cartelera
