James Karen Biography

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James Karen, (born on November 28, 1923), is an American character actor of Broadway, film and television.

Biography

Early life and career

James Karen was born James Karnufsky in Wilkes-Barre in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

As a young man, Karen was encouraged to be an actor by U.S. Congressman Daniel J. Flood, who was an amateur thespian himself, recruiting him into a production at the Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre.

He was married, for a time, to recording folk singer Susan Rich.

On the television soap operas, he played Dr. Burke on As the World Turns and was the original Lincoln Tyler on All My Children.

He is perhaps best known for his recurring role on the television series Eight is Enough and for his role in the 1985 horror film The Return of the Living Dead. He is also well-known on the east coast for his 20 years as television and radio spokesman for the Pathmark supermarket chain.

See the complete James Karen filmography at IMDB

Select filmography

See the complete James Karen filmography at IMDb

• The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
  
• Superman Returns (2005)
  
• Flickering Blue (2003)
  
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
  
• Thirteen Days (2000)
  
• Any Given Sunday (1999)
  
• Joyride (1996)
  
• Nixon (1995)
  
• The Willies (1991)
  
• Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)
  
• Wall Street (1987)
  
• Invaders from Mars (1986)
  
• Hardbodies 2 (1986)
  
• The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
  
• Jagged Edge (1985)
  
• Being from Another Planet (also known as Time Walker) (1982)
  
• Poltergeist (1982)
  
• Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
  
• The Jazz Singer (1980)
  
• The China Syndrome (1979)
  
• Hercules in New York (1970)
  
• Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)
  

External link

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• Great Character Actors / James Karen
  

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• 1. Ed: (after cutting off a zombie's head) Kiss, kiss.
  From Return of the Living Dead Part II. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Ed: Not me. You'll never find me in one of these. I'm gonna get me cremated.
  2. Joey: You're just afraid that some old creep like you is going to come along and steal your head.
  3. Ed: Watch your tongue boy, if you like this job.
  4. Joey: Like this job?!
  From Return of the Living Dead Part II. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Ed: You see, we're the ones who take them out instead of putting them in.
  From Return of the Living Dead Part II. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Burt: (after Burt hits the zombie in the head with a pickaxe) I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!
  2. Frank: (crying) It worked in the movie!
  3. Burt: Well it ain't working now!
  4. Freddy: (crying) You mean that in the movie they lied?
  From The Return of the Living Dead. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Burt: (pointing to the body freezer) One question, Frank. This guy screaming in here, you sure he's a dead cadaver?
  2. Frank: Why don't you open the door and find out?
  3. Burt: It's all right. I'll take your word for that. If it is a reanimated body, we're gonna have to... we'll have to kill it.
  4. Freddy: How do you kill it if it's already dead?
  5. Burt: Well how do I know, Fred? Let me think.
  6. Frank: It's not a bad question, Burt.
  From The Return of the Living Dead. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Frank: (calling his friend for help) Burt? We have a little problem.
  From The Return of the Living Dead. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Freddy: (wiping himself down) That chemical is all over everything. Stupid a**hole!
  2. Frank: Watch your tongue if you like this job!
  3. Freddy: Like this job?!
  From The Return of the Living Dead. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Frank: Let me ask you a question, kid. Did you see that movie Night of the Living Dead?
  2. Freddy: Yeah. That's the one where the corpses start eating the people. Shaw! What about it?
  3. Frank: Did you know that movie was based on a true case?
  4. Freddy: Come on. You're shi**ing me, right?
  5. Frank: I've never been more serious in my life.
  6. Freddy: That's not possible. They showed zombies taking over the world.
  7. Frank: Well, they changed it all around. What really happened was, back in 1969, in Pittsburgh at the VA hospital, there was a chemical spill and all that stuff kind of leaked down into the morgue, it made all the dead bodies kind of jump around as though it was alive.
  8. Freddy: What chemical?
  9. Frank: 245 trioxin, it's called.
  From The Return of the Living Dead. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Frank: If it's a reanimated body we will have to... we... we'll have to kill it!
  From The Return of the Living Dead. Submitted by Félix C (14 months ago)