33. James Karen

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Comedy, Arts, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2015

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Character actor extraordinaire James Karen has appeared in over 80 movies, over 100 television shows and a staggering 5,000 TV commercials. In a career spanning nearly 7 decades (!), he's worked with Frederic March, Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Gene Hackman, Steven Spielberg, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Will Smith, to name but a few. Gilbert and Frank phoned James one recent Saturday night to cover a VERY wide range of topics, including his film debut in the immortal "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster," his years-long friendship with the legendary Buster Keaton and his experience sharing a townhouse with Marlon Brando, Wally Cox and Maureen Stapleton. Also, James "sells" Craig T. Nelson a haunted house, a Boy Scout uniform leads to an acting career and a controversial "Jeffersons" episode nearly torpedoes a plum TV pitchman gig. PLUS: James parties with Clark Gable and Louis B. Mayer! Gilbert gets a one-cent residual check! Moe Howard recites from "The Tempest"! And James teaches a teenaged Michael Douglas to drive! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know a few years ago I was doing a movie called Jack in the Beanstalk where I spent
0:26.0	a month walking around the gigantic smelly goose outfit because I have a lot of self respect.
0:36.6	But it had a great cast. It had like Christopher Lloyd, Katie Segal, Wallace Sean,
0:44.0	Chibi Chase, Chloe Grace Moretz, amazing group of people. And one of the people I met there,
0:53.5	and I'll be talking about it later, I've gone to detail, was an actor named James Karen,
1:02.0	who I didn't know by name but I saw him and did that take of, oh that guy. And before we were doing
1:13.1	Frank and I were getting ready to do this podcast, we decided to brush up a little on it
1:19.6	and it's shocking. The amount of movies, TV shows and commercials he's worked on and a ridiculous
1:31.9	amount of stars that he's worked with. So we'll be talking to the actor James Karen.
1:42.3	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.
1:48.8	I'm here with my co-host Frank Santopodre. Our guest this week is a veteran character actor
1:56.8	who began his career in the 1940s and hasn't worked since. God, take two.
2:07.6	I'm hanging up right now. It was too little about a word like up. Yeah, you guessed it.
2:18.8	Frank, I don't know you well enough to interrupt but interrupt him and tell him, stop.
2:26.1	It's written on the card James, I assure you. Thank you for it. We'll do it again.
2:30.2	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.
2:36.0	I'm here with my co-host Frank Santopodre. Our guest this week is a veteran character actor
2:43.4	who began his career in the 1940s and hasn't stopped working since. He's been in over 80 films
2:52.7	including the China Syndrome, all the Presidents, Men, Pulta Guys, Nixon, Wall Street and the
3:00.6	pursuit of happiness and over a hundred TV shows including Hawaii 50, The Rockford Files Mesh,
3:10.0	Dallas, Cheers, Family Ties, Seinfeld and American Dad and along the way he's worked with
3:18.4	everyone from Marlon Brando to Will Smith to the three stuages. He's also found time to appear in a
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