Yesterday BBC2 aired "The Reverse Peephole" in which Kramer has to convince Silvio that pretty-boy Jerry wears fur-coats. Now this Silvio (Real name was something like Joe Polite or Poleto) had a familiar voice. I'm sure a lot of the people in this group have seen Star Wars - The Phantom Menace. Now, does anybody know if Silvio is the same guy as the flying JunkYard owner (the creature that owns Anakin Skywalker and his mother)? Please help me out!
thx in advance, wouter
I'll bet you a dinner you're thinking of Dustin Hoffman.
I dunno, but we can easily find out. First stop is The News Guy (Mike)'s Seinfeld site (http://www.geocities.com/tnguym/) to find the name of the actor playing Silvio. His name is apparently Jon Polito, and we can look him up a the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/). Polito's info is here: http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Polito,+Jon
Nope, no Star Wars. But we can use IMDb to look up Star Wars Phantom Menace, where we find the part of Watto was played by: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Secombe,+Andrew
Thanks for the help. Too bad it's not him :( They sound so similar!
wouter
John Twernbold wrote:
But does the imdb tell us if Andrew Secombe is related to Harry Secombe ("Mr. Bumble" in the musical Oliver!)?
You may owe me a dinner.
LOL, why not just click on the link and find out? If you do, you'll see that at the top of that IMDb page it says, "Son of the late Sir Harry Secombe CBE"...
No, that's not how it works--you have to make an outrageously incorrect claim, that offer to buy *me* dinner if you're proven wrong. :-)
John Twernbold wrote:
Okay, let's see.
By jove! And he's older than I.
Aw, and I see Sir Harry left us this year, April 11th. Sad.
But maybe Sir Harry was in Star Wars . . . .
But not according to the imdb.