That movie was Blake Edwards’ 10 and as much as I enjoyed the picture, my greatest thrill was to see the awesome Don Calfa hilariously bookend the movie as Dudley Moore’s perverted swinger neighbor.
A few weeks ago I was catching up with a film I had never seen by a director I very much liked.
I say was in the past tense because we have just learned that Mr. Calfa has passed, just weeks shy of his 77th birthday.
But horror and cult film fans will of course love him best as Ernie Kaltenbrunner in Dan O’Bannon’s 1985 black comedy horror masterpiece The Return of the Living Dead.