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Jonathan Exley shot A and Marcy Walker many times for magazine covers. Says A: "The first time we worked with Ex, he kept saying, 'Oh Marcy, that's great! Keep that up... A?!? What are you doing? What is that face you're making supposed to mean?!? Are you trying to prove something, etc.' I finally went to the refrigerator and grabbed a beer just to cool out. But over the years Ex taught me how to leave my 'masks' at home when its time to shoot."
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From "Shoot the Sundown," a film by David Leeds that starred Christopher Walken, Margot Kidder, Geoffrey Lewis (Juliette's father) and Bo Brundin. A played the Navajo Medicine Chief "Sunbearer" in this quirky and elegant film that must rank as one of the most obscure pictures ever made.
This shot from a session for the Dutch magazine "Talkies," which specializes in very glossy spreads on actors and such. The mag did a particularly insightful interview with A around the time he was doing "L.A. Law," and we are trying to get it translated and posted on the site.
From the movie "Joe Panther." There were insurance company rules that said a moment like this could never occur, but A talked the director into letting him wrestle the gator. "It was what my character did for a living, and I had been trained by real gator wrestlers, so I had to get in there. Later in this scene I had put this guy to "sleep" by rubbing his belly. While I was busy soliciting money from the tourists, he woke up and tried to bite my kneecap off. I jumped away, and got real pumped up about my "great reflexes." When we watched it in dailies the next day it became obvious that the gator had simply missed, and THEN I had jumped."
46K/623x7530K/363x440Here he is with a big ol' ball of yarn on his head. Why? We don't know. When we asked him he said, "I don't remember why, but somebody made me do it." Anything else, A? "It was really heavy, I remember that... with little fuzzy things hangin' off it."
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This photo was snapped in New York City sometime near the end of Marcy Walker's reign as Eden Capwell Castillo on Santa Barbara. A and Marcy were in town for the Emmys (1990 or 1991?) and were asked to appear onstage for a Q&A session at a charity function that was near to the heart of SB co-creator Bridget Dobson. A question from the audience obviously hit the spot.
50K/775x59335K/593x445This panoramic shot of A as Buddy Red Bow was taken in Lame Deer, Montana on the set of "Powwow Highway." You can read Roger Ebert's review of this fine movie in "REVIEWS" and get some info on the video by checking out our "FLICKS ON VIDEO" page.
That's John Wayne, the Duke himself, preparing to smack A in the face with the back of his big old meaty hand. This was from a scene in "The Cowboys" where Wil Andersen (the Duke) and Cimarron (A) have come upon Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. Mr. Andersen respected Joseph. Cimarron did not; shot off his big mouth; and is about to get his comeuppence.
This magazine shot from "She-Devil" (A as Garcia and Sylvia Miles as Meryl Streep's mother) was scanned and reprinted here despite the weird "rippling" effect that we get when we do this process. We thought it was worth it due to the high "buff factor" of this character.
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A's wife Leslie caught him from a distance as he sang "Safely to Dawn," the song he wrote for his sister's wedding in October. Note the cool tux element, boutanier (?) and generally civilized vibe. The song was nice, too. With his sister's blessing, he performed this tune at Super Soap Weekend in Orlando about a month later. We're looking for a photo from this performance. (Does anybody have one to contribute?)
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J. C. Brady caught A in the moment of "maximum bad intent" as Morogonai in "Wind River," about to rid himself of an enemy who has been closing from behind. This photo was snapped just after Morogonai pivoted on his horse, "Comanche," and presented himself for serious engagement.
Santa Barbara was the number one show in the Soviet Union back in the days when there was only one TV station in the country. It aired five days a week at 7:00 pm. This is a shot, courtesy of his friend Tony Wolff, of A in Moscow, standing in a nearly deserted Red Square a couple of days before the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the end of World War II. Later, after midnight, he returned to find the square bathed in giant Kleig lights. A massive banner picturing an American G. I. with his arm slung over the shoulder of a Russian Soldier had been hung. A: "My cab driver pointd to the soldiers, put two fingers together and held them up in front of my face. "Ameriansky... Russky... Good Friend...' There were tears streaming down his face."
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33K/515x440Photographer Jeff Katz took this shot of the lovely Jackie Zeman in a relaxed, cheek-to-cheekish moment with our guy. Mr. Katz does a lot of the photo shoots for General Hospital, and is reknowned for his mellow demeanor and twisted sense of humor. We like the vibe of this picture very much. It captures "Bobbie & Roy" in a rare moment of peace.
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A as Tiburcio Vasquez and Clive Revill as the Impressario onstage at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in "Bandido." A's grandmother (for whom the song "La Luz de La Luna" was written) used to entertain the family on trips north from L.A. with stories of "the great Vasquez," who never gave in to Anglo settlers who took over California and set out to push the Mexican gentry aside. Vasquez came from a prominent family, but chose to take up the gun and the life of a fugitive revolutionary, a role he performed with long and cunning success. When finally caught, he was the last man to be legally hanged in the state. Never undone, he had commemorative pictures of himself printed up and sold on the day he was strung up, an event which attracted a huge crowd. Many who attended were females who had come to admire him over the years. He was said to have a woman friend, if not several, in every town in Southern California, which was likely why it took the government more than twenty years to bring him to justice. The play got mixed reviews but did very good business.
