Okay so I just missed his birthday (sorry, Leonard) but I did notice, whilst encountering once again The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, that from 1968 to 1973, there was a campaign to get a live action Lord of the Rings movie underway and fans were keen to see Mr Nimoy as Aragorn.
Not the actor that immediately leaps to mind for such a role. You can imagine William Shatner in the part (all too easily, I'm afraid) but Nimoy? Hmm...takes a bit of doing. Anybody got any other suggestions for 1960s actors to fill the shoes of the Fellowship?
Laurence Olivier as Elrond.
ReplyDeleteOrson Welles as Sauron.
Dudley Moore as Frodo.
Hehehe...love the Frodo suggestion. And perhaps Julie Christie as Galadriel?
ReplyDeleteRichard Burton as Denethor
ReplyDeleteRichard Harris as Gandalf
James Coburn as Boromir
Jack Palance as Saruman
Toshiro Mifune as Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth
Fess Parker as Faramir
Andy Griffith as Tom Bombadil
Alright, getting silly...
Being completely silly ... I always pictured Sean Connery as kind of a 60s beefcake version of Gandalf. Y'know, calling Galdriel "Pooshey Galore-driel" and all that. OK, maybe not! lol
ReplyDeleteWe're filming this one in the UK:
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Dennis Waterman as Sam
Jon Pertwee as Merry
Neil McCarthy as Pippin
Brian Blessed as Gimli
David Warner as Legolas
John Phillip Law as Aragorn
John Thaw as Boromir
Gandalf would be soooo hard to choose:
William Hartnell, Geoffrey Bayldon, John Le Mesurier, or Peter Cushing?
Casting Peter Cushing as Gandalf could allow a great confrontation with:
Christopher Lee as Saruman, or John Laurie, maybe Le Mesurier?
Diana Rigg as Arwen
Honor Blackman as Galadriel
Marty Feldman as Gollum Perhaps Don Knotts?
(I'd have liked Peter Lorre, but he was dead before '68...)
Ken Russell to direct FTW
DeleteThey're taking the hobbits to Carnaby Street
DeleteFor a second, I thought of Ken Loach, not Russell:
DeleteHobbit Come Home
Gwai
The Ringkeeper
Route Orodruin
@Biopunk - Marty Feldman as Gollum!!! Hahahaha, that is gold! Andy Serkis, stand outside.
ReplyDeleteNimoy as Aragorn? Not that crazy, particularly in the 1960s when people were still working out what Lord of the Rings was all about. After all, Aragorn is a direct descendent of Elrond's brother, and presumably the line of Numenorean kings retains a large dose of Elvishness - tall, long lived, etc. And we could imagine Nimoy playing Elrond, and/or his brother, so...
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