Barton Heyman Biography

Barton Heyman played character roles on stage and screen. While others aspire to stardom, Heyman described himself as a "working actor," one who prefers to work as a team with other cast members. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Heyman earned a degree in theater arts from U.C.L.A. before launching his career. He made his film debut in the Canadian-made The Naked Flame (1968) and had his first major role in the thriller Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). Subsequent film roles were quite diverse for the slender, balding actor. In 1995, he played the prison guard who escorts Sean Penn down Death Row for his final appointment in Dead Man Walking. Heyman's Broadway work included appearances in Indians and The Enclave. Heyman also occasionally appeared on television movies such as For Love and Glory (1993). Heyman died of a heart attack in his Manhattan home on May 15, 1996. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

• 1. Dr. Klein: Keep your fingers away from my God-damn C***.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Daniel R (7 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Klein: She's heavily sedated. She'll probably sleep through tomorrow.
  2. Chris MacNeil: What was going on in there? How could she fly off the bed like that?
  3. Dr. Klein: Pathological states can induce abnormal strength; accelerated motor performance. Now, for example, say a 90 pound woman sees her child pinned under the wheel of a truck. Runs out and lifts the wheels a half a foot up off the ground - you've heard the story - same thing here. Same principle, I mean.
  4. Chris MacNeil: So what's wrong with her?
  5. Dr. Klein: We still think the temporal lobe.
  6. Chris MacNeil: Oh what are you talking about, for Christ's sakes? Did you see her or not? She's acting like she's fu**ing out of her mind, psychotic, like a split personality or...
  7. Dr. Klein: There haven't been more than a hundred authentic cases of so-called split personality, Mrs. MacNeil. Now I know the temptation is to leap to psychiatry. But any reasonable psychiatrist would exhaust the somatic possibilities first.
  8. Chris MacNeil: So, what's next?
  9. Dr. Klein: A pneumoencephalogram, I would think. Pin down that lesion. It will involve another spinal.
  10. Chris MacNeil: Oh, Christ!
  11. Dr. Klein: What we missed in the EEG and the arteriograms could conceivably turn up there. At least, it would eliminate certain other possibilities.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Klein: It's a symptom of a type of disturbance in the chemical-electrical activity of the brain. In the case of your daughter, in the temporal lobe - it's up here - in the lateral part of the brain. It's rare, but it does cause bizarre hallucinations and usually just before a convulsion, the shaking of the bed. It's doubtless due to muscular spasms.
  2. Chris MacNeil: Oh no. No, no. That was not a spasm. Look. I got on the bed. The whole bed was thumping and rising off the floor and shaking - the whole thing, with me on it!
  3. Dr. Klein: Mrs. MacNeil, the problem with your daughter is not her bed, it's her brain.
  4. Chris MacNeil: So, uh-hum, what causes this?
  5. Dr. Klein: A lesion; a lesion in the temporal lobe. It's a kind of seizure disorder.
  6. Chris MacNeil: Now look Doc, I really don't understand how her whole personality could change.
  7. Dr. Klein: The temporal lobe is very common. It could last for days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior.
  8. Chris MacNeil: Hey, do me a favor will you? Tell me something good.
  9. Dr. Klein: Don't be alarmed. If it's a lesion, in a way she's fortunate. All we have to do is remove the scar.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Chris MacNeil: Well give me an example, like what specifically did she say?
  2. Dr. Klein: Specifically Mrs. MacNeil, she advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamned cu*t.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)