May John Karlen rest in peace..we lost him yesterday, January 22nd, 2020....
@ethelhoose11967 ай бұрын
May he Rip
@yadayada95817 жыл бұрын
One of the strongest cast members the show ever had, and one of my personal favorites. He seemed to have excellent chemistry with nearly everyone in the entire cast. His scenes with Dennis Patrick and Jonathan Frid were fantastic. Willie had some of the best scenes in the entire show; skulking around Collinwood harassing Victoria and Carolyn, his fight with Burke Devlin at the Blue whale, those scenes with him and the portrait, opening Barnabas's coffin, and so on. Great actor.
@hollyb68857 жыл бұрын
yadayada 95 I completely agree. John was my favorite actor in the series
@marilynwillett8046 жыл бұрын
Everybody else --even the kids were a little uppity, but never Willie.
@jaynebills73194 жыл бұрын
John karlen, you beautiful man May you Rest in Peace You did not know me but I knew you as a wonderful actor on my Tv set. I shall miss you ❤
@donschwellenbach54618 жыл бұрын
I loved Willie, and he was quite handsome then, very cool looking
@pedinurse16 жыл бұрын
i love the contradiction of his loyalty to Barnabas and a desire to protect Maggie, he was willing to die for her, he became a changed man and became noble through adversity
@sandrarepash64515 жыл бұрын
My Dear John Karlen: You are so much larger than life than you realize. The two most fondly remembered characters from the Dark Shadows vampire storyline are Barnabas Collins and Willie Loomis. ❤❤ Ask anyone if they remember DS and the first thing they say is Barnabas Collins and Willie Loomis. There's a really good explanation for that. You were both fantastic.
@jerseygirlforever87225 жыл бұрын
I loved Willie! He was the best! Great actor n great scenes. He had the best scenes really. He was a cutie. Too! He had the biggest heart
@jeanettesmith7654 жыл бұрын
John Karlen was my favorite Dark Shadows character! I hope he realized how much he was loved.
@Barnabas454 жыл бұрын
God I miss this guy! R.I.P. Willie...
@ellierfromthebronx45315 жыл бұрын
I loved John Karlen's Willie Loomis. No one can top him! And he was great as Harvey Lacy on Cagney and Lacy... If you haven't seen it already, catch him in the movie "In a Child's Name".
@greenfaerie615374 жыл бұрын
RIP JOHN KARLEN ❤🦇🥀
@belfiore_184 жыл бұрын
So true. What a cast! Nancy was/is phenomenal. I agree.
@thewanderingamerican54123 жыл бұрын
I studied acting in college. I had scholarship to study acting in London, including at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-On-Avon....loved Shakespeare. John Karlen's acting on Dark Shadows is some of the VERY BEST acting I've ever seen in my life. Way beyond anything he did in Cagney and Lacey. His acting in DS deserved an Academy Award. Truly.
@paulascott57013 жыл бұрын
You are absolutely right! I put Karlen's acting ability up against ANYBODY'S. He was the real deal.
@jojoheartspaypay2 жыл бұрын
Great voice, great character, simply everything. He is missed
@sherryparkman76355 жыл бұрын
DARK SHADOWS 💯 PERCENT GOLD STANDARD OF SERIES TV.😆😍😃😎
@66collinwood8 жыл бұрын
Great interview with Johnny!
@kat-tw9fu4 жыл бұрын
He was one of Dark Shadow’s best actors. RIP, John
@marilynwillett8046 жыл бұрын
Willie was the lowest man on the totem pole in D.S. lol--no respect from anyone, not even Jason, and yet---he had been a good friend to Jason apparently and still cried when Barn killed Jason. He cried when the bat bit Barn and Barn died [for awhile] Willie hated himself when he thought Maggie had died, even to the point of irritating Barnabas, so my point is; Willie had the biggest heart --he didn't even want Barnabas to hurt dr. Hoffman the first night she was there. Willie was humble, and his boss knew it.
@11redlions8 жыл бұрын
what a good actor, he was so real, its like he wasnt acting.
@hollyb68858 жыл бұрын
I completely agree. John Karlen's scenes are my favorites. I was so disappointed that he wasn't part of the 1795 time line. I kept waiting for him to show up in a role there. That was the only thing I didn't like about that story line.
@blozier20065 жыл бұрын
@@hollyb6885 though, to be fair, I don't think he was even on the show when they went to 1795. I think that overlapped with when he was on "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" on CBS.
@hollyb68855 жыл бұрын
Bryce Lozier I think you’re right but I sure missed him during the 1795 episodes.
@Barbarian857 Жыл бұрын
Yes! Nancy Barrett! I love you more now. My Willie❤
@videoinformer3 жыл бұрын
My favorite place in the character development of Willie Loomis was when his conscience couldn't handle the terrible things Barnabas was doing, and he began to resist and sneak behind Barnabas' back. The psychological complexity brought out great acting from John Karlen. Writing him out at the peak of his performance (coma) was a huge mistake., I think. He was great! As for "Crazy Carl", John Karlen was spot-on in characterizing this short-lived character who couldn't get murdered fast enough. "Pansy, Pansy, Oh, my Pansy!", he ran around exclaiming incessantly until he was permanently silenced by Barnabas. He's right to emphasize repeatedly the wonderful acting of Nancy Barrett, when she was given parts in which she could be expressive. She showed this after she as Carolyn Stoddard was bitten and made Barnabas' thrall. And her possession by the spirit of Pansy Faye was better than the "real" Pansy Faye, and far better than her role as the unpossessed Charity Trask.
@Marcel_Audubon3 жыл бұрын
"They were firing someone" ... yeah, the original Willie Loomis was a real creeper! The week they made the switch, Willie Loomis became a much deeper character.
@sherryparkman76355 жыл бұрын
TALENTED MAN. R.I.P. !!!
@donnaemmons51445 жыл бұрын
He's not dead...lol...
@ellierfromthebronx45315 жыл бұрын
He's not dead...suffered a couple of strokes, but he's still with us.
@ellierfromthebronx45314 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, he IS dead now...yesterday, January 22nd, 2020...rest in peace, Mr. Karlen.
@stevenbrown12253 жыл бұрын
The black and white episodes are so much more enjoyable for me. The old colored videotapes were just kind of garish the way they recorded colors. It was still a new tech. The b/w shows seem so much more atmospheric and the sets dont look quite so bad. Willie was may favorite character after Angelique. (hubba hubba) Man! I'm old!
@hrh-xj4fh Жыл бұрын
One of the few of the cast who can actuatally act!!
@philipmonihan82223 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice how, whenever they jumped timelines, they always set John here up with Nancy Barrett?
@Historian2123 жыл бұрын
Did he say that Dan Curtis didn’t like Jonathan Frid?