If the celebrities I like could hang in there for a couple more weeks, I may catch up on all the other obituaries I want to post on my site without them piling up.
Which brings me to Harry. He was a great actor even outside my favorite genres, such as Big Love and Paris, TX. I would prefer to go on with the cool stuff he did that’s close to my heart: Alien (first victim of the Xenomorph’s humanoid form), Escape from New York, Pretty in Pink (an usual turn as a single dad) and the horrible Red Dawn. His greatest role was Bud in Repo Man, the repo man who tutors Otto on how the job is intense. Harry had the gravelly, rough around the edges personality you’d expect in a starship engineer or beleaguered man who’s seen it all, he was the Battle of Okinawa.
Thanks Harry. What I’d give to express my gratitude to you in person, namely for Repo Man, the coolest and weirdest film I got hooked on in high school, much of it from your character’s dialog.