EllyMack

Thanks for posting those, Mr Flash. If it's OK with you, I'll copy them to my hard drive for my own collection.

Mr Flash

Sure, they were taken from a documentary called The Making of a Horror Film, which is available as an extra on the US DVD release of a film called Living Doll.

EllyMack

Thanks for that. I've just ordered a copy (told you I was obsessed with the guy, did I? )

Mr Flash

By sheer coincidence, an old episode of Crown Court, Gerry appeared in (“Meeting Place” 1978) was repeated on Sky channel RedTV last week.

Ali M

Hello! Another newbee here. I stumbled across your site and was delighted to see that someone out there remembers Gerry Sundquist. I first discoverd him in Last Days of Pompeii in 1983 and then again as PIP in Great Expectations. He was an understated talent and not too bad on the eyes either. Elly Mack, like you I am a daft old woman I hope you do decide to do a memorial web site. May God Bless Gerry...where ever he is.

EllyMack

Well, if I do - which is actually looking a little more likely now - then I'll let you all know here.

Gary D.

Apprently, he played Claudius in The Last Days of Pompeii, but, without going through this rather long tape, I can't recall him. In browsing through IMDb, I noted a 'You Might be Interested. . .' -- and it directed me to an Egyptian film, where he played a captured British soldier.

Anyway, I noted that he did an 'Anna Karenina' and threw himself before a train--an awful way to commit suicide. I would rather take something and listen to Rachmaninoff (sp?) as I passed on.

I found information on Gerry, but I'd like to be directed to a site that has his last picture so I can make a connection to Claudius. I know quite a few people from this 1984 mini-series have died.

EllyMack

I do have a picture of him from Pompeii, but it's on the hard drive of my other PC. If you can hang on 'til the weekend, I'll post it for you. I warn you, it's not very flattering, though - he seems to have been rather padded up in the face for the part. I'm sorry, I can neither find nor remember the site I got it from.

According to IMDB, Gerry's last film was Don't Open 'til Christmas, which is available on DVD. He's also particularly sweet in Music Machine. I've managed to get DVD copies of most of his films, but Pompeii is one I can't get hold of. And if anyone knows of any subtitled copies of Alexandria ... Why? or Meetings with Remarkable Men for sale, I'd be really interested.

Think my next buy is going to have to be Passion Flower Hotel, although I suspect it's going to be very cringeworthy (especially as the Kinski woman's in it too ).

His death was particularly tragic when you think that he'd actually kicked the heroin habit, but was still very depressed at the time. As with the case of many suicides, he's reported to have seemed pretty upbeat just before it happened.

Ironically, a much-loved work colleague of mine committed suicide in a similar way at about the same time. We knew the guy had a few personal problems, but had no idea of the extent to which they were troubling him inside. Fifteen years later, when I meet up with other colleagues from those days, we say "Remember M__? If only we'd known." In both cases, so much talent and skill, gone to waste because no-one thought to ask, and these two deaths have given me cause for plenty of reassessment in my own life, I can tell you. I guess that's at least one positive to have come out of it all.

Lord Brett

Bats is probably the best person to comment about this, but from my own understanding (I read around the subject of depression a lot some years ago when my own life and general demenour was going through something of a tailspin) one of the most dangerous periods for someone who has gone through long-term depression or substance abuse is when they have just some out of it.

What has been removed from the person's life (the depression, or addiction or whatever) is so much a part of their personality that often there is nothing to fill the void that it leaves behind for a period afterwards.

batman

Wanna job? Mine's going cheap.

What M'lord said is often true .... also, once many people become resigned to what they perceive as 'the inevitable' their demeanour improves because they have a 'goal' to aim at .... their demise. Another factor is that, when people feel that their mood has lifted they stop taking their medication. This can sometimes have a rebound effect whereby they appear OK for a period but then quickly deteriorate to the point of no return. A lot of people do not fully undertsand that depression is not only a psychological problem, it has a firm physical aspect as well, for which the medication is intended to deal with.

"Aha Mr Aubergine ... that's where you're wrong!"

EllyMack

And of course, by the time they're screwed up, they're in no position to see (or at least acknowledge) reason. My mum's a depressive, has been for many years. In the mornings, before her ADs kick in, she's a nightmare to be around. I dread to think what she'd be like if she left them off completely.

On another note, Gary D, I said I would post a picture here for you. Unfortunately I seem to have lost it during the last virus attack I had, I'm sorry. If I find it again, I will post it, although like I said, it's not at all flattering to the guy.

Ali M

Gary D... try this web site http://www.dlc.fi/~dce/tldop.index.html
Go to House of Clodius and you will see Gerry Sundquist. Hope that helps.

Elly, you will like this site as well.

EllyMack

Awww, thanks Ali.

Actually, the link you posted doesn't work, but I Googled 'House of Clodius' and found this one, which should work OK.

batman

Gerry's wig in those pics would do Burt Reynolds proud.

"Aha Mr Aubergine ... that's where you're wrong!"

hoggers

Any idea who the chap with him is?