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The stage, screen and television mainstay was one of Hollywood’s best known character actors as well as the star of the 1956 cult classic Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. He died on Saturday at a Cape Cod hospital in Massachusetts. He was 96. The chisel-jawed actor appeared in almost 100 films over seven decades (he was nominated for an Oscar as “Biff” in 1951′s Death Of A Salesman) and was omnipresent in primetime. He was the brother of writer/critic Mary McCarthy.
R.I.P. Kevin McCarthy
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Another favorite of Joe Dante’s gone…
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While he could play the mastiest of Villians, he was the nicest man you could ever know. I met him at a couple of horror conventions and he couldn’t be sweeter. One of my cherish posessions is a photo we had taken together. The first time I met him I told him that no one can play villians as well as him, to which he replied, “but I’m a very nice guy”. The second time I met him I called him an excellent actor, to that he replied, “let’s do lunch”. He was such a sweet man, and who could forget his perfomnaces in “Invasion of The Body Snatchers, Innerspace, and UHF where his villian recieved the ultimate humiliation. He was such a perfect actor.
Exactly my experience with him. Nicely put.
A great portrait of the younger actor is in Patricia Bosworth’s biography of Montgomery Clift. In the early New York method days he was one of Clift’s closest friends.
I will always remember him as the evil R.J. Fletcher, villainous head of Channel 8 in Weird Al’s masterpiece “UHF.” In retrospect, I’m impressed they were able to get the star of Body Snatchers and Death of a Salesman in their silly, but enjoyable, movie.
Thank God someone else said it!
I told you I wanted a ROLEX! A ROOOOLEX!!!
Loved “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and loved him in it. Bummer, he was a great actor, but he lived a good long life. Rest easy!
Amen
Kevin came in for a few days work on THE ROSE AND THE JACKYL, a TNT movie I produced years ago….He regaled us with stories of “old Hollywood” and his friendships with the greats, and at the same time, was entirely relevant and charming. My Condolences to Lillah and her entire family.
I wish I had seen Kevin McCarthy as Harry S. Truman in the one-man show he did for many years,”Give Em Hell Harry.” I believe he also portrayed Truman in a 1970′s play “Harry Outside.”Thankfully McCarthy’s story-telling abilities were sometimes captured in documentary films on old friends including Marlon Brando.He even shares a brief memory of Marilyn Monroe in the excellent John Huston documentary that is included in the two-disc special edition DVD of “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.”
All of the testimonials are true. He was a very friendly and sophisticated man. I met him at a book signing regarding a book about his famous sister. He couldn’t have been more charming. He was a stately figure in Sherman Oaks for years. A great loss. Oh, Dr. Miles Bennell, farewell.
I had the great opportunity to direct him in my short film “I do”.
Kevin was one of the most generous humans I’ve ever met.
My love goes out to Kate and his family – Rest well Kev.
UHF Lives On!!
he was one of those actors I always look forward to seeing when an old TV show comes out on DVD along with Richard Deacon, Sid Haig and Harold Gould.
What’s up with the Kenndy Center honoring Oprah while Harold Gould gets dismissed as unworthy? Oprah’s sin of forcing Dr. Phil on American ought to get her a seat at the Crimes Against Humanity Panel
I knew Kevin McCarthy’s face from years of watching him in movies but I never knew his name. I loved him in Invasion of the Body Snatchers etc. but I especially loved his work on TV. He did lots of appearances on TV westerns in the 1960′s and as a kid I thought all sheriffs looked like him. In fact, I still have a strong visual memory of him tipping his tan Stetson or squaring his jaw at some town folk in one episode or another.
He also made guest appearances on many of my favorite TV murder mysteries (remember the way he would say “Jess” to Angela Lansbury on Murder, She Wrote?). He also appeared in many detective dramas and TV sci-fi series as well as made for TV movies in the 1970′s-90′s. By this time he was usually playing more established authority figures (military majors or generals, politicians, doctors or family patriarchs) and he was especially convincing in all his roles.
It’s great to see that he was still working well into his nineties and, though 96 years of life is a blessing, I’m sorry to see such a fine actor go. It seems like a little of my childhood and teens is gone with this man as well. But it’s not about me.
My condolences and prayers go out to his family.
R.I.P. Kevin McCarthy and may God bless your soul.
My dad was a diaper service deliveryman in NYC in the 50′s and Kevin McCarthy was one of his clients. He always told us how much he loved the guy – my father would often receive a Christmas gift and an invitation in for a cup of coffee. Because of that and, of course, his wonderful acting, I’ve been a huge fan of Mr. McCarthy all my life. R.I.P., sir.
As a kid growing up Kevin McCarthy was everywhere on TV. Later I came to appreciate his commitment to the acting craft – especially in “Invasion”. It is still one of the creepiest, scariest and best science fiction movies of all time. Kevin McCarthy made us believe.
He will be missed.
It’s likly he’ll be remembered for just one film…. but it’s a classic
I met Kevin a couple of times at autograph shows and he was just the nicest man. He was stunned when I picked out a photo of him from the 1978 remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. “And you got that from just looking at that?” he asked with such surprise.
“Of course, that’s you!”
He told me that they never paid him a dime for that cameo. He ran out and jumped on the hood of Donald Sutherland’s car, crying out the same lines from the end of the original. “They didn’t even give me $150 for that,” he said.
I thanked him for doing it because it was a wonderful scene that connected the original classic to the remake.
RIP, Kevin.
We just finished celebrating “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” in our summer movie marathon Mad Invasion.
Kevin’s work in that film is monumental. The look on his face after he kisses Becky and realizes true horror and fear is one of the great unforgettable moments in cinema.
Thank you for everything.
Rest in Peace, Kevin.
I have always loved “Invasion.” I’ve seen it 20 or 30 times, and McCarthy remains spellbinding with each viewing. A very fine actor (and so nice to read so many tributes here attesting to what a lovely man he was in real life). My condolences to his family.
What a great loss. He was an amazing talent.
Petunia Scareum
Kevin McCarty always brought intelligence to his performances which made him interesting to watch. Even if he was arguing with a killer tomato he made it believeable and interesting. Hollywood will miss him.
It’s 12/28 and I just heard Kevin McCarthy had died!! I always loved him – first saw him as General Happy Jack Kirby in A Gathering of Eagles when I was a swooning 18 year old. I named my son Kevin in his honor in 1982. My husband did not mind. I met him 2 years later when he performed his Truman solo show in Omaha. I am glad he lived so long and got to see his 2 younger children grow up.