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Friday, June 11, 2010

COUNT YORGA DOUBLE FEATURE


Last year we lost actor Robert Quarry. He’d been ill for some time.

His most well-known role was that of the regal Count Yorga in two feature films, although he did quite a few other movies and television guest appearances.

COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE was originally intended to be a porn film, but probably would not have been commercially viable, so it became strictly a vampire movie. Some of the actresses in minor roles were porn stars of that time period, so I learned.

Robert Quarry made this role his own; it has some very effective horror shots of him in it (the camper scene) and was the first vampire film I’d ever seen at that point with a “negative” ending.

Count Yorga returned in the aptly titled THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA and was his usual charming erudite self. If you study his performances carefully, you will detect the subtle humor in his character.

“Uncle Bob”, as some of us on the Robert Quarry Appreciation list called him, never really retired and had worked on an Edgar Allan Poe film prior to his untimely death.

He sent periodic messages to those of us on the list and we were able to show him he was not a forgotten star and that he meant something to all of us. I was so grateful we could do this for him and that he knew we loved him.

The RQ members were disappointed (but not shocked) to learn that his passing was ignored by the “In Memoriam” segment of this year’s Oscar telecast. I’m sure a lot of people were scratching their heads when Michael Jackson popped up on it, though. Ah, I never tire of politics.
Anyway, Robert Quarry as Count Yorga. Check him out!

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