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- By the time the film version of Quatermass and the Pit finally appeared in 1967 it was with Scots character actor Andrew Keir in the role and he is certainly better cast than Donlevy. Keir's Quatermass is outwardly gruff, but also intelligent, inquisitive, and more thoughtful and sympathetic than we've seen in previous films.
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Oct 5, 2023 · By the time the film version of Quatermass and the Pit finally appeared in 1967 it was with Scots character actor Andrew Keir in the role and he is certainly better cast than Donlevy. Keir's Quatermass is outwardly gruff, but also intelligent, inquisitive, and more thoughtful and sympathetic than we've seen in previous films.
Unlike the major contrast in character between Brian Donlevy's Quatermass and his peers who portrayed the character on television before him in the first two plots, Andrew Keir does a very good job of capturing the character as he is portrayed by Andre Morell in the third installment of the series.
Mar 16, 2012 · However, compared to the somewhat harsh portrayal we saw from Brian Donlevy, Quatermass as played by Andrew Keir is a more compassionate man, and even a vulnerable one - literally so towards the end of the film, as he eventually succumbs to the madness gripping the rest of the population, and it is left to his friend Professor Roney to make the ...
Oct 26, 2024 · Keir is excellent as Professor Quatermass, a vast improvement over Donlevy and arguably the best of the seven actors to take on the role (the debate tends to be between him and Morell). He has the no-nonsense, immovable object grit of Donlevy's version, while retaining the intellectual bearing and thoughtfulness that the scientist needs.
In the absence of the original's André Morell, Andrew Keir makes for a formidable and authoritative Quatermass, hard-nosed when he needs to be but bringing a frailty and humanity to the role that Donlevy's interpretation was notably lacking.
It was directed by Roy Ward Baker and stars Andrew Keir [3] in the title role as Professor Bernard Quatermass, replacing Brian Donlevy, who played the role in the two earlier films. James Donald, Barbara Shelley and Julian Glover appear in co-starring roles.
Keir (who was a better Quatamass than Donlevy) plays the Professor spectacularly as a very solid, sober scientist trying to convince the military and the government ministry that we might...
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