What actor does this Roman bust look like?

[Aldebaran]

I think Jack Gilford is the best one so far. The nose and mouth are perfect.

[Mayerling]

I think Jack Gilford is the best one so far. The nose and mouth are perfect.

Too bad we could not bring the patrician Roman bust to life, and convince it to pretend that it is a pot of pea soup coming to a boil (one of Gilford's famous silent routines).

Jeff

[Pcdunn]

Ah, Romanticism!

Interesting that as the sitter was a M.P., the artist has apparently dressed him in a cloak suggesting a Roman patrician (at least to me).

Those Romanticists were always putting contemporary people in Classical garb.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm

[Pcdunn]

Too bad we could not bring the patrician Roman bust to life, and convince it to pretend that it is a pot of pea soup coming to a boil (one of Gilford's famous silent routines).

Jeff

I think his eyes are too small to match the bust.

He did play a Roman (if not a patrician)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Funny_Thing_Happened_on_the_Way_to_the_Forum

[Mayerling]

I think his eyes are too small to match the bust.

He did play a Roman (if not a patrician)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Funn...y_to_the_Forum

Yes, he played "Hysterium" in the stage and film versions of "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum". "Hysterium" is a slave.

Jeff

[Beowulf]

You know, I was worried after I posted that too large picture of Gilford...up until now .

Thank you, Geddy2112, for relieving my anxieties

[lynn cates]

Ernest Thesiger

Hello Barbara. Try Ernest Thesiger.

Cheers.
LC

[Robert]

I'd love a potato!

[Beowulf]

Hello Barbara. Try Ernest Thesiger.

Cheers.
LC

Haha! Not bad, not bad

[Robert]

I can't help thinking that in post #1, the figure on the left is actually the Roman slave Lurcio, while the man on the right is the poet Nausius :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIpkNVL1JNQ

[lynn cates]

weakness

Hello Barbara, Robert. "Do you like [the cinema]? It's my only weakness." (heh-heh)

Cheers.
LC