Dark Shadows' Robert Rodan Is DEAD to Me!

June 2024 · 5 minute read

All you Dark Shadows buffs, his obituary said he played a Frankenstein character on the series. What was all that about? All I can say is that he was definitely a manly man!

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by Anonymousreply 41September 26, 2021 2:25 AM

He was probably the hottest of all the actors on DS. So sexy.

by Anonymousreply 2March 29, 2021 10:19 PM

Has Susan Dey sent her condolences yet?

by Anonymousreply 5March 30, 2021 1:54 AM

Manly? Yes. But Iiked him too.

by Anonymousreply 6March 30, 2021 1:57 AM

[quote]He was probably the hottest of all the actors on DS.

That title goes to Don Briscoe.

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by Anonymousreply 7March 30, 2021 1:57 AM

I'm watching this for the first time and am up to season five. I damn near fell out of my chair when during the seance the lights go out and Vicky switches places with that dirty governess from 1798. This show should be mandatory watching for all DLers.

by Anonymousreply 8March 30, 2021 2:28 AM

Now Adam can get his revenge on Willie for withholding chicken, because they're both in the afterlife. I'd buy a ticket to that!

by Anonymousreply 9March 30, 2021 2:32 AM

He is indeed masculine. I fell hard for David Selby, but DS had a fair share of hot men.

by Anonymousreply 10March 30, 2021 2:41 AM

As soon as I saw this I knew we’d have the chicken scene. DL does not let me down.

Imagine that being the crowning career achievement. Really, I’d be proud. So much affection, fifty years later.

by Anonymousreply 12March 30, 2021 2:50 AM

Old Sam loved this dangerous rough trade.

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by Anonymousreply 13March 30, 2021 2:52 AM

^ Claims of a a horrible Swedish film called The Minx where he shows his butt.

Get on it, detectives.

by Anonymousreply 14March 30, 2021 2:55 AM

I need to make a nice cup of Earl Grey tea and get cozy with Dark Shadows.

by Anonymousreply 15March 30, 2021 2:58 AM

I don’t think there was a gay casting couch.

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by Anonymousreply 16March 30, 2021 9:17 PM

It's as if someone had actively scrubbed The Minx (referenced in link at r13) and its Robert Rodan ass shot from existence. It's real, but there isn't even a trailer out there anymore.

I think it was shot as softcore and then hardcore ended up spliced in. I don't think RR was a part of the latter, but it looks as if we'll never know.

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by Anonymousreply 17March 31, 2021 3:29 PM

I never knew that Geoffrey Scott was on Dark Shadows. I do remember him and the mustache from Dynasty. Sort of a shadow of Lee Horsley. But still hairy-hot.

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by Anonymousreply 18March 31, 2021 3:43 PM

Diana Millay and Chris Pennock also just died.

by Anonymousreply 19March 31, 2021 3:45 PM

With a face like that you know he had bull balls and a beer can cock.

by Anonymousreply 20March 31, 2021 3:57 PM

Diana Millay and The Phoenix never got proper love from the masses.

by Anonymousreply 21March 31, 2021 4:08 PM

Damn, every living being that was ever on Dark Shadows (and hadn't already died) has died in the last few months.

by Anonymousreply 22March 31, 2021 4:19 PM

Hardly. Still alive:

David Selby (Quentin)

Alexandra Isles (Victoria)

Lara Parker (Angelique)

Kathryn Leigh Scott (Josette)

David Henesy (David Collins)

Kate Jackson (Daphne)

Jerry Lacy (Rev. Trask)

Mitchell Ryan (Burke Devlin)

James Storm (Gerard)

Donna McKechnie (yes, THAT one!) (Amanda)

And there are more...

by Anonymousreply 23March 31, 2021 4:57 PM

Oh, for a minute there I was afraid it was...

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by Anonymousreply 24March 31, 2021 5:02 PM

Mitch Ryan has to be 100 if a day. He was on Miss Locher's DS reunion a few months back, and he saying he looked like the crypt keeper would be generous. Lara Parker must've made a pact with the devil (or Nicholas Blair lol), because she doesn't seem to age.

by Anonymousreply 25March 31, 2021 5:05 PM

Lantern-jawed Mitch Ryan was hot in Dark Shadows. He seemed like he’d throw a hard, angry fuck at any given moment.

Rather astonishing he’s one of the last men standing from the show he was fired from almost 55 years ago for his out of control alcoholism.

by Anonymousreply 26March 31, 2021 6:01 PM

Mitch Ryan is 87 and he got sober fairly soon after being fired from Dark Shadows. He said that was more or less his rock bottom, if I recall correctly.

By the way, Rock Bottom is a great porn star name.

by Anonymousreply 28March 31, 2021 7:45 PM

Any comments from Mothra or King Ghidorah?

by Anonymousreply 29March 31, 2021 7:49 PM

^ Don’t hold your breath.

Mothra is the Susan Dey of giant monsters.

by Anonymousreply 30March 31, 2021 8:32 PM

Has Betsy Durkin issued a statement yet?

by Anonymousreply 31March 31, 2021 11:57 PM

In top photo is looks like George Reinholt.

by Anonymousreply 32April 1, 2021 12:00 AM

"Victoria Winters finds herself a stranger in a sea of familiar faces. . . "

by Anonymousreply 33April 10, 2021 1:48 AM

I love the brief pause with “somehow” at about :54.

How Adam kept Barnabas non-vampiric was really a murky plot point.

by Anonymousreply 34April 11, 2021 12:32 AM

He's still dead?

I thought that Dr. Lang would've brought him back by now.

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by Anonymousreply 36April 20, 2021 2:21 AM

Rodan? The pterodactyl that terrorized Tokyo?

by Anonymousreply 37April 20, 2021 2:31 AM

Dr. Laing was a perv. If you couldn't figure out he a sadist, forcing Jeff (I think it was) as his plaything...

by Anonymousreply 38April 20, 2021 2:32 AM

[quote] That title goes to Don Briscoe.

I'm watching the full series now (Amazon, then Tubi for later seasons) and Don Briscoe has just shown up. Very handsome and probably family. I was curious so I googled him to see what he did after DS. Turns out, not much and sadly he did not age well at all. He died at the age of 64 on Halloween in 2004.

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by Anonymousreply 39September 25, 2021 10:59 PM

WHET Became of Lee Horsley by the way?

by Anonymousreply 41September 26, 2021 2:25 AM

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