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Post by sambda on Oct 22, 2018 7:11:48 GMT -5
David Doremus said that when the producers saw his final appearance in the show as G.W., they were so impressed with his acting they regretted killing off his character. But it was realistic: wars kill! As for the Walton girls, all of them had their featured roles in different episodes during the course of the series. I thought the acting in general was stronger in the first seasons, possibly due to much better writing. But it became strained towards the end and in particular in the reunion movies. I guess some if them had not really acted in a while, and acting ability like anything can get rusty when not used. By the way David Doremus was not bragging when he stated that to me, just stating a fact. He is a nice, humble man! I really like the scene where John reads GW's last letter to Erin. I love the juxtaposition between the bright summer's day and the obviously "dark" content of the posthumous letter itself. Good understated playing by Ralph Waite too - easy to overdo it in such a scene, but he doesn't. Good stuff. They did really need to kill somebody off during the war seasons. War does that.
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Post by Kyle on Oct 22, 2018 19:04:21 GMT -5
Well, they did kill off Curt. Until they undid it a few years later.
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Post by JeriJet on Oct 23, 2018 9:12:50 GMT -5
David Doremus said that when the producers saw his final appearance in the show as G.W., they were so impressed with his acting they regretted killing off his character. But it was realistic: wars kill! As for the Walton girls, all of them had their featured roles in different episodes during the course of the series. I thought the acting in general was stronger in the first seasons, possibly due to much better writing. But it became strained towards the end and in particular in the reunion movies. I guess some if them had not really acted in a while, and acting ability like anything can get rusty when not used. By the way David Doremus was not bragging when he stated that to me, just stating a fact. He is a nice, humble man! Unfortunately, the writers made it a rather boring role, most of the time.... Took a look at imbd and Wikipedia -- he doesn't seem to have done any acting since 1998.... I seem to remember discussion of Doremus a while back on the forum -- perhaps around the time of a reunion -- and someone had tracked down more up-to-date info on him.... couldn't find the thread.... A few minutes later -- Here's the latest bio info: In 1972, Doremus, at the age of fourteen, was cast as G.W. Haines, boyfriend of Mary Ellen Walton (Judy Norton Taylor) & later Erin Walton (Mary Beth McDonough) in the series The Waltons. Doremus appeared through November 10, 1977. In the episode "The First Casualty", his character died in a training accident in the early phase of World War II. Doremus appeared on NBC's Bonanza in 1972. His last role was in 1981 as Chuck in the film Rivalson the USA network. This film was also known as The Stranger at Jefferson High. Doremus is the son of Robert Alan Doremus (born 1935) and Judy Doremus. Before his first television roles, Doremus had already begun acting in television commercials at the age of seven. He once indicated that he wanted to attend the University of Southern California and aspired to become a dentist. Since 1980, Doremus has been in the mobile electronics business. He is married to Erin Colleen Doremus (born 1959) and is the father of four children. A former resident of Glendale, Doremus lives with his family in Palmdale in Los Angeles County.
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Post by nedandres on Oct 23, 2018 20:54:42 GMT -5
Yes, Doremus is no longer acting. He also told me about his appearance on "Bonanza." Said that Michael Landon was great. And that the on-screen fight became very real and that the hits were real. The actors, including David, got very engaged during the fight scene. I have not seen the episode and cannot comment further about it.
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Post by nedandres on Oct 23, 2018 20:56:04 GMT -5
Yes, Doremus is no longer acting. He also told me about his appearance on "Bonanza." Said that Michael Landon was great. And that the on-screen fight became very real and that the hits were real. The actors, including David, got very engaged during the fight scene. I have not seen the episode and cannot comment further about it. And yes, the WW2 years of "The Waltons" would have been very artificial if no characters had died.
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 10, 2019 23:51:00 GMT -5
They hardly ever develop Erin's personality, she acts with more depth but all she gets are episodes where she immediately falls in love with a random guy who shows up. Not that I don't like that sometimes, I love chad and Erin, I'm in the middle of season six, I don't understand why chad was just dropped after he started building his log cabin literally on the mountain, the marriage was shot down and now they've never come back to chad....who's right there.... this is bull(censored). Also I'm glad gw blew himself up with a grenade Okay, gotta ask -- "she acts with more depth" .... really ??!! More depth than who ??!! And, as I asked before -- WHY are you glad GW blew himself up with a grenade ??!!
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Post by koala on Mar 11, 2019 1:39:01 GMT -5
Honestly this was fairly early on with my interest in the series and I think I just unfairly wanted to see her character developed more bc I liked watching her better than Mary Ellen. But as I watched more and more, especially as I came to become tired of Mary Mcdonough’s kinda subpar acting, I ended up where I am now in appreciating Mary Ellen as a character considerably more than Erin.
As for GW I always found him boring and lifeless (lol) as a character and was just... less than troubled, to see him go.
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 11, 2019 10:53:23 GMT -5
Honestly this was fairly early on with my interest in the series and I think I just unfairly wanted to see her character developed more bc I liked watching her better than Mary Ellen. But as I watched more and more, especially as I came to become tired of Mary Mcdonough’s kinda subpar acting, I ended up where I am now in appreciating Mary Ellen as a character considerably more than Erin. As for GW I always found him boring and lifeless (lol) as a character and was just... less than troubled, to see him go. Yeah, GW was pretty boring! And, Erin couldn't come close to Mary Ellen.... who could?!
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