often, though, he disappeared soon after, brought down by a bullet. He usually played a bad guy or, as Linda puts it, “baddie”. But despite the lowly role, he was more often than not described in the credits as “Special Guest Star”. “I wanted to know what made him a star.”
Time marched on and Linda became a civil servant and her attention switched to the series “Star Trek” and a new idol, Leonard Nimoy (Mr Spock).
But Gerald Mohr was never far away from her thoughts. Last winter he was uppermost in them again. “I got Sky Channel” she explains, “and they showed the first series of “Bonanza”. In the episode “The Abduction” there he was, playing the baddie. Knifed, he dies uttering the line “Ask Daisy.”
Always a minor role
Linda’s teenage crush surfaced again and she began to find out more about the handsome actor. “I realised how he had gained his star status.” On the Internet Movie Database, they list no less than 69 film roles and 84 on TV.
Mohr played the lead role in 5 feature films and the supporting actor role in a whole lot more. “Gilda”, and his last film, “Funny Girl”, are perhaps his best known films. Linda started to acquire his films and TV series and to buy photographs and posters on E-Bay. She also tried to find out what happened to him.
She found out that he died of a heart attack on Lidingö in 1968.
At the time of his death, the 54-year-old actor was in the process of producing a new TV series, a co-production between the USA and Sweden.
“That’s all I know except that it was filmed at Lidingö Film Studio. Maybe your readers know some more?”
On Saturday 11 June it would have been Mohr’s 91st birthday. On that day, Linda placed her flowers on his grave, a humble stone plaque in the memorial glade.
“Finding the grave was no easy task, but I was helped by Barbro Lind-Fehmers and Görel Nordlund from the National Archive and Lidingö parish records.” Linda
Time marched on and Linda became a civil servant and her attention switched to the series “Star Trek” and a new idol, Leonard Nimoy (Mr Spock).
But Gerald Mohr was never far away from her thoughts. Last winter he was uppermost in them again. “I got Sky Channel” she explains, “and they showed the first series of “Bonanza”. In the episode “The Abduction” there he was, playing the baddie. Knifed, he dies uttering the line “Ask Daisy.”
Always a minor role
Linda’s teenage crush surfaced again and she began to find out more about the handsome actor. “I realised how he had gained his star status.” On the Internet Movie Database, they list no less than 69 film roles and 84 on TV.
Mohr played the lead role in 5 feature films and the supporting actor role in a whole lot more. “Gilda”, and his last film, “Funny Girl”, are perhaps his best known films. Linda started to acquire his films and TV series and to buy photographs and posters on E-Bay. She also tried to find out what happened to him.
She found out that he died of a heart attack on Lidingö in 1968.
At the time of his death, the 54-year-old actor was in the process of producing a new TV series, a co-production between the USA and Sweden.
“That’s all I know except that it was filmed at Lidingö Film Studio. Maybe your readers know some more?”
On Saturday 11 June it would have been Mohr’s 91st birthday. On that day, Linda placed her flowers on his grave, a humble stone plaque in the memorial glade.
“Finding the grave was no easy task, but I was helped by Barbro Lind-Fehmers and Görel Nordlund from the National Archive and Lidingö parish records.” Linda
