Re: Hvywt Charley Norkus photos.. Friends and Foes
Posted: 25 Mar 2010, 12:52
Other TV and movie appearances include : TV The Defenders, Car 54, Kraft Theatre
Movies: Westside Story- Background actor near school yard.
Mad Dog Cole- Telly Savalas first film. My father played a boxer in the ring in a scene where the mobsters meet at the fights.
Two For The Seasaw: To be honest with you, I'm still looking for him in this.
He got paid residuals for it though.
Something Wild- never saw it.
All these movies were the original versions shot in the 1960's.
Advise and Consent-not sure where he is in this, but he had a picture taken with Otto Preminger (the director) on the streets of New York during the shooting. He must be in the NY Streets scene.
An interesting and true story- Jake LaMotta calls my father up and says he got a part for him in his story "Raging Bull". First he has to meet with him and Robert DeNiro at Deniro's downtown office. My father goes to the meeting and everything goes great at first. DeNiro likes the look on my father and that he's a good friend of Jakes with Movie experience. He tells my father that he will play the part of the Boxing Commissioner who suspends Jake. Great. Leave it to my father to f... up. On the way out he tells Mr DeNiro, that he has known Jake most of his life, and says he doesn't look like Jake, how's he gonna pull it off. Mr DeNiro tells my father that he cant use him in the movie. Jake and my father leave the office with Jake yelling in my fathers ear that you cant be saying this stuff to actors like him. That he just blown a few thousand dollars pay day.
A few years later, Robert DeNiro's office calls my father to see if he wants to be in a movie called "Night of the City" or something like that with Jessica Lange. My dad says sure and goes in to pick up the script. He doesnt see DeNiro on this one. The script has him saying quite a few lines playing a mobster/ hitman.
Almost every line he has is filled with obscene language. F's,B's A's you name it they are all there. He studies his lines at home with me. He is uncomfortable with this part. He doesnt use foul language that much in public in real life and has pretty good morals and ethics. He called up DeNiros office a week later and told him he was going to pass on this part. He later told me that he didnt want to be remembered that way. With all the nieces and nephews in the family, he didnt want to be seen in that light. True story.
If you can find a copy of Raging Bull II (the book) Jake has a good chapter on him getting him the liquor business job. Not bad but Jake thought he spelled Norkus with an I. (Norkis) sic. Can't catch a break.
Movies: Westside Story- Background actor near school yard.
Mad Dog Cole- Telly Savalas first film. My father played a boxer in the ring in a scene where the mobsters meet at the fights.
Two For The Seasaw: To be honest with you, I'm still looking for him in this.
He got paid residuals for it though.
Something Wild- never saw it.
All these movies were the original versions shot in the 1960's.
Advise and Consent-not sure where he is in this, but he had a picture taken with Otto Preminger (the director) on the streets of New York during the shooting. He must be in the NY Streets scene.
An interesting and true story- Jake LaMotta calls my father up and says he got a part for him in his story "Raging Bull". First he has to meet with him and Robert DeNiro at Deniro's downtown office. My father goes to the meeting and everything goes great at first. DeNiro likes the look on my father and that he's a good friend of Jakes with Movie experience. He tells my father that he will play the part of the Boxing Commissioner who suspends Jake. Great. Leave it to my father to f... up. On the way out he tells Mr DeNiro, that he has known Jake most of his life, and says he doesn't look like Jake, how's he gonna pull it off. Mr DeNiro tells my father that he cant use him in the movie. Jake and my father leave the office with Jake yelling in my fathers ear that you cant be saying this stuff to actors like him. That he just blown a few thousand dollars pay day.
A few years later, Robert DeNiro's office calls my father to see if he wants to be in a movie called "Night of the City" or something like that with Jessica Lange. My dad says sure and goes in to pick up the script. He doesnt see DeNiro on this one. The script has him saying quite a few lines playing a mobster/ hitman.
Almost every line he has is filled with obscene language. F's,B's A's you name it they are all there. He studies his lines at home with me. He is uncomfortable with this part. He doesnt use foul language that much in public in real life and has pretty good morals and ethics. He called up DeNiros office a week later and told him he was going to pass on this part. He later told me that he didnt want to be remembered that way. With all the nieces and nephews in the family, he didnt want to be seen in that light. True story.
If you can find a copy of Raging Bull II (the book) Jake has a good chapter on him getting him the liquor business job. Not bad but Jake thought he spelled Norkus with an I. (Norkis) sic. Can't catch a break.
