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If Bogart Had Lived . . .

Zachary Smith

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Humphrey Bogart was just barely 58 years old when he died in January of 1957--still a fairly young man by today's standards. He did some of his best work at the end of his life, branching out into new and interesting roles such as Queeg in "The Cain Mutiny" and the work he did on "The African Queen" or "We're No Angels". Had Bogie lived another 15 or 20 years, what roles do you see him having played into the 1960', 70's or maybe even into the 1980's?

The first thing I thought of was him playing the Martin Balsam role of Arbogast in "Hitchcock's "Psycho" in 1960. Would Bogie have shown up as a celebrity villain the the 1960's "Batman" TV show? Could he have played "Columbo" on TV ( a role CREATED for Bing Crosby, who was only slightly younger than Bogart).

Can you envision Bogart in one of the "Airport" movies or "Earthquake"? What would Bogart have been like as "Quint" in "Jaws"?


I'm interested to see which roles you might think Bogart would have appeared in had he lived. He was a major MAJOR talent gone too soon.
 
Great topic, I love Bogart!

I would have loved to see him in Henry Fonda's role from On Golden Pond. He would have been great in the Leslie Nielson role in Airplane!
 
I hope he and Bacall would have retired to a boat somewhere and fired a shotgun into the air whenever photographers or newspeople approached.

If anything could have further enhanced his legendary status, walking away when entertainment got dumb would have done it.

I'm reminded that someone, when discussing the Marilyn Monroe "mystique," remarked that if she'd lived another ten years she'd have wound up as the center square on "Hollywood Squares." :lol:
 
Great topic, I love Bogart!

I would have loved to see him in Henry Fonda's role from On Golden Pond. He would have been great in the Leslie Nielson role in Airplane!

Yeah, but that would have deprived us of Leslie Neilson being great in Airplane!, not to mention the Naked Gun movies and Police Squad! ;)
 
^^ I know, and I felt weird typing that, but it would be great to hear Boggie deliver those lines.
 
^^ I know, and I felt weird typing that, but it would be great to hear Boggie deliver those lines.


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I AM serious! And DON'T call me "Shirley" . . .
 
Would 75 have been too old to play J.J. Gites in Chinatown? ;) If so, he could be Noah Cross instead. Just get him in that movie somehows.
 
Would 75 have been too old to play J.J. Gites in Chinatown? ;) If so, he could be Noah Cross instead. Just get him in that movie somehows.

Bogart would have been great as Noah Cross. Perhaps even better than John Huston, due to his incredible charisma.

I like Jack Nicholson too much as J.J. Gites to imagine Bogie in that role, though.
 
Oh, yeah, sequels would've been awesome.

The Caine Ultimatum
The Caine Supremacy

Darker Passage
Darkest Passage

The African Queen of the Nile

Sometimes They Fall Harder

The Bigger Sleep

To Still Have and Still Have Not
 
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