He did a bunch of work over the last 15 years I wasn’t aware of/didn’t recognize when I saw it
Old pro, never stopped working.
We all lose the chess game eventually.
his Ming the Merciless was so good it redefined the character, for my generation and beyond.
Never saw that. My Buck Rogers was Buster Crabbe - they played the old serials on TV when I was a kid. No Ming the Merciless in those.
Wow, he had such an amazing body of work over his long life!
This may seem an odd choice, but I will remember him best for Needful Things. He was brilliant in that.
He was also the best thing in Hannah and her Sisters.
That is Flash Gordon. And Charles Middleton was a good Ming and good in any other B movie proper or short of the era.
Yup, sorry. Mixing up my Golden Age SF in my golden years…
Charles Middleton was always a great, villainous authority figure.
Insert obligatory reference to Gambler breaking even.
“We ain’t going back,” he said. “We’ve come too far, marched too long, prayed too hard, wept too bitterly, bled too profusely and died too young, to let anybody turn back the clock on our journey to justice.”