Thursday, 17 October 2019

Stephen Moore.

Was sorry to hear of the passing of actor Stephen Moore..Although he had ca long and very impressive career as a much respected character actor, he had a special place in the affection of many for one role in particular. That of the poor doomed, and very doomy and gloomy, Marvin the android from the BBC's adaption of Douglas Adams much loved series of Hitch-hiker books. Marvin the paranoid android, crippled by the weight of his vast, and generally unchallenged intelligence.
            Brain the size of a planet yet he spent millions of years in a car park on Magrathea awaiting the return of his "friends" only to be repaid by being plunged into the heart of a sun onboard a space ship preprogrammed to do so.  A long, very long, actually really,really long life ended in a blaze of apathy.
             It is no more than a poor android can expect in such a wretched universe.
             Stephen Moore's voice will be remembered as long as Vogan's continue to excrete poetry through their faces or the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal continues to devour the grandparents of the universe.