Donald Pleasence

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q314914: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Dr. No (1962); Halloween (1978); Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): 2 lines

  1. lineage (ancestor) · through Halloween (1978), which they acted in: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read). Halloween felt like it invented modern horror, but on rewatch Chainsaw is the real ground zero.
    “whenever I watch Chainsaw, I'm like, no, actually this is ground zero.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (double feature) · through Halloween (1978), which they acted in: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read). Bill pairs it with Halloween to compare how much Halloween cribbed from Chainsaw.
    “I went Halloween just to compare and contrast like how much Halloween, crib done, chainsaw, all that stuff.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:31:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dr. No (1962), which they acted in: Dr. No ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read). Bond is the blueprint for Austin Powers; Dr. Evil is Blofeld.
    “Dr. Evil being Blofeld and all that stuff, it's just kind of lost on the audience and it still works.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Dr. Evil: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Donald Pleasence ⇒ Dr. Evil (the host's read). Dr. Evil is a rip-off of Pleasence's Bond villain with Lorne Michaels' accent.
    “a straight rip off of Donald Pleasance with the Lauren Michaels accent basically”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Friday the 13th (1980): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Halloween (1978), which they acted in: Halloween ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Friday the 13th was an openly shameless Halloween ripoff, built on Halloween's success.
    “We have to talk about how this was the most unabashed ripoff movie probably of all time.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:17:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Heather Graham: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dr. No (1962), which they acted in: Dr. No ⇒ Heather Graham (the host's read). Her bikini homage to Ursula Andress in Dr. No; character based on Bond femmes fatales.
    “the bikini that Ursula Andras wore in Dr. No”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Sean S. Cunningham: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Halloween (1978), which they acted in: Halloween ⇒ Sean S. Cunningham (the host's read). Cunningham saw Halloween succeed, took out a trade ad for a non-existent movie, and found his funding.
    “The producer, Sean Cunningham, saw Halloween was successful, came up with this idea, put an ad in variety”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:17:50 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (4) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Dr. Evil → Donald Pleasence. Dr. Evil is a rip-off of Pleasence's Bond villain with Lorne Michaels' accent.
    “a straight rip off of Donald Pleasance with the Lauren Michaels accent basically”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (role inheritance): Malcolm McDowell → Donald Pleasence. McDowell as Dr. Loomis in the remakes is called a valid inheritor of Pleasence.
    “He's a valid inheritor of the Donald Pleasance mantle.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:25:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.