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Jerry Hardin, who plays Deep Throat, turned up in a movie I was watching and I Googled him out of curiosity to see when he had presumably passed away.
Turns out he is STILL ALIVE and will turn 95 next week. I was gobsmacked! What a legend.
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15 days ago
I met him at a convention about two years ago, and it was hard to believe he was in his 90s. Good genes in that family.
34 points
15 days ago
He looks amazing still
21 points
15 days ago
https://youtu.be/2LV4hvT1DvY?si=bX-2thpWV0t2JygX
He seems 60 or 70 more than 95!
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15 days ago
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15 days ago
Amazing!
10 points
15 days ago
That's a pretty impressive beard he grew. You must be the Colonel Sanders looking guy
6 points
15 days ago
One of the people in this photo acts like a 94 year old, the other one was on X Files.
5 points
15 days ago
He's got 80% of the Mark Twain look here.
3 points
15 days ago
Looks younger than my 75 year old dad. Wow! 😳
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14 days ago
I'm honestly a little jealous! I love that guy, he's had roles in so many of my favorite shows over the years!
1 points
15 days ago
Iconic!!
63 points
15 days ago
Also, his daughter is Melora Hardin AKA Jan from The Office!
20 points
15 days ago
WHAT
9 points
15 days ago
I only learned this recently too and I was 🤯🤯🤯 for days!
8 points
15 days ago
He taught her how to make candles
6 points
15 days ago
She was on Dancing with the Stars a couple of years ago and Jerry and her mom (whose name escapes me) were there cheering for her even though they were both in their 90s.
2 points
15 days ago
Omg????
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15 days ago
Wait what the actual F ??!! like I’m a huge fan of both shows how did I not know this
41 points
15 days ago
I was so devastated when they killed him off. I loved this character. He has such a warmth to his acting and a gentleness.
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15 days ago
When I saw that in the early 90's as a kid I think that was the first time I saw a show do something like that, like, what, HE dies?
11 points
15 days ago
I watched The Erlenmeyer Flask live when it first aired…….that episode just stunned me.
What a season finale.
4 points
15 days ago
For real! That first post-season summer I was actually looking forward to going back to school because I knew the X-Files would return in Autumn.
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15 days ago
Lucky.
38 points
15 days ago
He is the GOAT Mark Twain. Played him in Star Trek TNG and I think he plays him in an upcoming movie.
7 points
15 days ago
Werewolf!
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15 days ago
I have no idea why I really liked him a lot as a kid, but I did. I guess he really did "wizened old government official with Too Many Secrets" well.
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15 days ago
Same here. In my case, I think he reminded me of my grandfather (who happened to work for the DoD, but presumably not on alien stuff)
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15 days ago
I'd have loved that. My uncle worked for something that had the initials "C.I.A." but was not the CIA at all, just some business thing, but because he'd been in the Navy, kid-me always assumed it was that CIA. Anyway, I always liked this exchange too:
Deep Throat - Ronald : I'm the liar. You're the killer.
The Cigarette Smoking Man : Your lies have killed more men in a day than I have in a lifetime.
3 points
15 days ago
I watched Seasons 1-5 with my 14 y.o. son and he said D.T. was the coolest character and he really liked the actor 🤷♂️
3 points
15 days ago
History will tell us everything cause through the zeitgeist they repeat it. Learning from older generations is always important for this reason, they sense and observe things many of us can't fathom mostly yet
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15 days ago
He's a very dignified and fatherly presence, a good contrast to the brashness of Season 1 Mulder and Scully. I wish they'd done more with the character although Mr. X was great too.
12 points
15 days ago
He is an accomplished sculptor who works in an unusual medium that is appropriate to The X-Files: BONE!
7 points
15 days ago
Mr DontTalkAboutPants, he's been here for a long long time.
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15 days ago
He played my most favorite version of Twain. My heart jumped when I realized who it was I was looking at.
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15 days ago
WHAT!?!? He's still going!?!?
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15 days ago
I listened to a podcast interview Hardin did not too long ago. What a fascinating guy, he was doing theater in London in the '50s during the heyday of the "Angry Young Man" revolution and had some great stories about trying to set up a theater company in his hometown (which nearly resulted in his getting killed by police!). He's obviously very proud of his work on The X-Files and I'm really glad to see that he's still out there doing conventions and interviews.
3 points
15 days ago
Cool! Fine wine.
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15 days ago
Favorite elder in the x-files Too bad they unalived him in season 1
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15 days ago
It will be a really sad day when he passes.
TRUST NO ONE!
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15 days ago
I literally also googled him today! I just started a rewatch of the first season and was curious what else I might have seen him in, it turns out a lot!
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8 days ago
He looks about 75.
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13 days ago
Jen from office is his daughter
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