There isn’t any official obituary yet, but social media is buzzing with news of the death of actor and Ed Wood buddy Conrad Brooks. He was 86.Brooks played both a policeman and a suspect in the movie in episode 423- BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, a knife-fighter in the movie in episode 613- THE SINISTER URGE and a man in overalls in the movie in episode 621- THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS.
Brooks did an interview on Rhino’s “The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 9.”
Thanks to Paul for the heads up.
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Conrad Brooks was also in RiffTrax’s Rollergator (along with Joe Estevez), which makes Ed Wood’s films look like Casablanca by comparison. Say what you will, but Connie Brooks definitely appeared in movies. Yup.
Edit: Oh! And Plan 9, too, of course.
An impressively long career as a working actor – well done, Mr Brooks!
And lemme tellya – he wore the HELL out of those overalls!
Bet he had some good stories to tell. RIP
RIP, Connie. Our life would be less full without your efforts.
Damn, I had always hoped I’d get to meet him. I could be wrong, but I think he was the last survivor of the Ed Wood films.
According to IMDB, Carl Anthony (who played Johnny Ryde in The Sinister Urge, and Patrolman Larry in Plan 9) is still alive.
And of course Ed Wood was directing films as late as 1974, but that’s well beyond anything of his that MST/RT/CT/FC ever covered.
Had the pleasure of meeting him a few times on the horror convention circuits and he had my number from Hollywood so we would talk occasionally. Yes he had some stories to tell but we mostly talked about the next gig. He is on his way to a great gig now.
Loved his interview on the Sinister Urge disk. It sounded like he really enjoyed what he did.
Another member of the extended Mst3k to say goodbye to.
Rest in Peace dear sir.
Conrad and I would chat time to time, I’d pick up the phone and hear “Hey Murphy!! Hey champ it’s your buddy Conrad! What are you in the sauce? It’s 3pm.”
I remember he wanted to part with a Lugosi book for some reason.
I opted for a signed copy of Plan 9.
He was Kelton’s partner, had a good line too, coming from Ed Wood.
“Hard to find something when you don’t know what you’re looking for.”
Will be sorely missed.
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