Yes, BAG is simply the best background performer currently in the business.
I was also a great fan of Tim Peterson (sometime credited as Timothy Peterson) back in the 50s.
He was the best background performer I ever saw at that time. He was really popular in Star Trek (the original series on NBC), The original Twilight Zone and The Avengers among many other shows and movies. When he was pointing that phaser toward an alien you knew he was ready to shoot if necessary just by looking into his eyes.
In one of the twilight zone episode, they started giving him a newspaper that he would read on a street bench for one scene. Again you could see in his eyes than he was not just glancing at the newspaper like the average background performer would, but really really reading it. Fully engaged in the activity of reading. You could even feel that he was thinking and assimilating what he was reading.
Since that episode they often gave him a newspaper to read in many following movies and TV series. In the biz, he was known sometimes as the "Newspaperman". When they needed someguy to read a newspaper on a street bench or cafe or restaurant. They knew Peterson would blow the scene away. He was adored by the public.
Tim was also incredible in Ben-Hur as someone in the crowd during the execution. If you can focus and center your DVD on him, you will see what I mean. He never once looked into the camera!!
I think BAG is as good or a bit better than Peterson. I digress BAG is definitely the best ever. It's just that Peterson is kind of part of my childhood. BAG remind me of Peterson when he's taking notes of something using a pen. They have the same gestures, concentration in their eyes, facial expressions, fitting the scenes emotionally perfectly well.
I was also a great fan of Tim Peterson (sometime credited as Timothy Peterson) back in the 50s.
He was the best background performer I ever saw at that time. He was really popular in Star Trek (the original series on NBC), The original Twilight Zone and The Avengers among many other shows and movies. When he was pointing that phaser toward an alien you knew he was ready to shoot if necessary just by looking into his eyes.
In one of the twilight zone episode, they started giving him a newspaper that he would read on a street bench for one scene. Again you could see in his eyes than he was not just glancing at the newspaper like the average background performer would, but really really reading it. Fully engaged in the activity of reading. You could even feel that he was thinking and assimilating what he was reading.
Since that episode they often gave him a newspaper to read in many following movies and TV series. In the biz, he was known sometimes as the "Newspaperman". When they needed someguy to read a newspaper on a street bench or cafe or restaurant. They knew Peterson would blow the scene away. He was adored by the public.
Tim was also incredible in Ben-Hur as someone in the crowd during the execution. If you can focus and center your DVD on him, you will see what I mean. He never once looked into the camera!!
I think BAG is as good or a bit better than Peterson. I digress BAG is definitely the best ever. It's just that Peterson is kind of part of my childhood. BAG remind me of Peterson when he's taking notes of something using a pen. They have the same gestures, concentration in their eyes, facial expressions, fitting the scenes emotionally perfectly well.
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