Bill Bowers Redux
Apr 24, 2017
1 min read
Earlier today I mentioned that it was the wonderful screenwriter William Bowers (Support Your Local Sheriff, The Gunfighter, The Sheepman and many more) who played the lead Senator in Godfather Part II, questioning Michael Corleone. The video that exists of that is lousy, but here's the follow-up scene when he interrogates Frank Pantangole who recants his earlier testimony when Corleone files in Pantangole's brother from Italy to watch.
It's such a wonderful, naturalistic performance by Bowers who I suspect most people have had no idea that he wasn't an actor at all. As I mentioned, I was invited to his how for dinner when I was a graduate screenwriting student at UCLA, and he and his wife were utterly charming and gracious
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