As many of you may or may not know, Marc Laurence, who played Steve McBirney in Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, passed away in his nineties last November.
In his later career he played some fairly tough-faced hoods.
He was in the James Bond films "Diamonds are Forever" and "The Man with the Golden Gun". In the featurette documentary on the making of Diamonds are Forever that is included in the "Special Features" section on the DVD you can see Mr. Laurence in his late 80's reminiscing about his role in the "Diamonds" movie.
I thought other Marc Laurence fans might get a kick out of seeing him speak in real life.

I really like Mr laurence,what a great bad guy he made,read his Bio on IMDB,thats who i am to be in Rush's Monday nite movie for Halloween. I'd like to hear what he had to say it must be pretty neat...Evan

Dear Andrew,

Thank you for the information. Many, if not most, Charlie Chan fans are also fans to varying degrees of the venerable Marc Lawrence. Anyone who takes a peek at his filmogrphy should not with some awe a career in film that lasted seven decades.

Sincerely,
Rush Glick

Especially when you consider how many people don't hit the seventies in age!

Virginia

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Dear Andrew,

Thank you for the information. Many, if not most, Charlie Chan fans are also fans to varying degrees of the venerable Marc Lawrence. Anyone who takes a peek at his filmogrphy should not with some awe a career in film that lasted seven decades.

Sincerely,
Rush Glick

Actually I have been so out of touch I didn't know the old guy had gone . We corresponded back amd forth a few times and he had a rough and ready character . I remember he wrote how f***ing ( my censorship , not his !)cold it had been in Newfoundland where he had just been "making faces" as he called acting . What modern actor would take the trouble to reply in his own hand to fans like he did .
A 21 machine gun salute is called for .
STEVE

A few years ago, I met Marc Lawrence at an autograph show in Studio City. I asked him a couple of questions about the Charlie Chan films he did, and he signed several homemade pics I made off of "Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum." When I told him that I had flown 3000 miles to meet him, he playfully slapped my face. lol His assistant whispered to me that he was giving me a compliment, which I took it as. Kinda like the way Steve McBirney would have slapped his pal Grenock! lol I have some video footage of the slap and of meeting him. Also some audio of him talking a little about Warner Oland, Eddie Marr (Grenock), and C. Henry Gordon (Dr. Creme). Audio is pretty noisy, though, from all the people in the room. But he was a really nice guy to meet.