One of the standout faces of 70s cinema, who worked alongside some of Hollywood's greats, stepped out for a rare outing in LA on Thursday.
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70s Star Transforming: Unrecognizable at 84!
One of the standout faces of 70s cinema, who worked alongside some of Hollywood's greats, stepped out for a rare outing in LA on Thursday.The actor, now 84, who...
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The actor, now 84, who terrified audiences as the Scorpio Killer in ’s 1971 classic Dirty Harry, appeared utterly harmless and quite sprightly while running errands.
Dressed casually in a long-sleeved T-shirt and baggy pants, he gave off a far friendlier vibe than his menacing onscreen persona in Dirty Harry - one so convincing he reportedly received death threats after the film’s release.
He struggled to escape being typecast as the bad guy, appearing as a bank robber alongside Walter Matthau in 1973’s Charley Varrick and as a sleazy chauffeur in the 1975 detective drama The Drowning Pool, starring Paul Newman.
Yet he managed to win over fans when he landed the iconic role of Elim Garak on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, despite the character being an exiled spy and elite assassin.
Can you guess the veteran actor?
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One of the standout faces of 70s cinema, who worked alongside some of Hollywood's greats, stepped out for a rare outing in LA on Thursday
The actor, now 84, who terrified audiences as the Scorpio Killer in Clint Eastwood ’s 1971 classic Dirty Harry, looked surprisingly harmless and sprightly as he ran errands
He struggled to escape being typecast as the bad guy, appearing as a bank robber alongside Walter Matthau in 1973’s Charley Varrick and as a sleazy chauffeur in the 1975 detective drama The Drowning Pool, starring Paul Newman
If you said Andrew Robinson… beam yourself up.
In 2021, Robinson looked back on his Dirty Harry role, revealing how he landed the infamous part of the Scorpio Killer - and that it all started with the film’s director, Don Siegel.
After his chilling turn as the Scorpio Killer, Robinson played Frank Ryan on the soap opera Ryan’s Hope from 1976 to 1978, earning a Daytime Emmy nomination
Robinson also starred in 1987's Hellraiser
He taught community theatre to local students and worked as a carpenter before returning to Hollywood in the mid-1980s.
Robinson continued to impress with standout roles, including President John F. Kennedy in a Twilight Zone revival episode and Liberace in a 1988 TV biopic.
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He later directed episodes of Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Judging Amy, even starring alongside his daughter Rachel.
In 2000, he penned A Stitch in Time, inspired by Garak, and in 2024, Robinson reprised the role in Star Trek: Lower Decks, proving that even decades later, the actor remains a sci-fi legend.
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