Our dear friend Marvin Kaplan was one of the great character actors and cartoon voice artists. He passed away in August 0f 2016 and I wish you all could have known this delightful gentleman. He was very sweet, very funny and — most of all — very Marvin. He was also very active…the kind of actor who when no one's hiring him, he goes out and makes his own job. At age 89, he was working on a movie on which he was an actor, writer and producer.
It's called Lookin' Up and it stars Steve Guttenberg. It's about a bank teller (played by Guttenberg) who loses his job to an Automated Teller, snaps and decides it would be a good time to murder his wife, his mother-in-law and his daughter, all of whom are in serious need of murdering. He is unable to carry out his plans but then all three women die for other reasons and guess who gets accused.
Wanna see it? It's playing through Friday at the Laemmle NoHo Theatre out at 5240 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood. It will play other dates in other theatres, here and in other cities but that's where you have to go this week to see lovely Marvin's final performance. I hope to get out there myself because nothing he did was without interest and it's always nice to have a little Marvin Kaplan in your life.