#I'm inordinately fond of Berkoff: he is by almost every account a difficult crank and an outspoken curmudgeon who's alienated as many
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Playwright, director, poet (and actor) Steven Berkoff makes an uncredited appearance as a mafia assassin, Bertoli, in The Saint: Vendetta for the Saint - Part 2 (6.16, ITC, 1969)
#fave spotting#steven berkoff#the saint#vendetta for the saint#1969#itc#these (really quite awful..) pics are frim part 2 but actually Steven appears as Bertoli in both parts‚ altho more in a background#capacity in part 1 (i don't think he has any lines in that ep). his appearance in part 2 is more significant and of course ends in him#getting shot dead while trying to kill Simon.#I'm inordinately fond of Berkoff: he is by almost every account a difficult crank and an outspoken curmudgeon who's alienated as many#people as he's enthralled‚ but he's also a fiercely independent artist and one of the few genuinely unique dramatic forces of his#generation still with us. he'd been acting for about a decade at this point and was just making the transition from juvenile roles#(he seemed to play students well into his 30s) to more mature parts; slowly he'd become typecast as a villain‚ something he's always#been quite positive about. gradually his acting work would become almost entirely secondary to his creative output‚ at least as#far as screen roles were concerned: the irony being that he found his greatest fame by accepting rubbishy roles as bad guys#in 80s and 90s action flicks‚ taken solely for the paycheck and so that that money might be quickly funnelled into his own#artistic projects‚ which rarely make much money but were made his own way and exactly as he wanted them. it's a method of working i#admire a great deal‚ and it produced some of the most singular‚ most uniquely devastating british plays of the 20th century
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