Todd’s Movie Blog

It is a sad day today in Hollywood, former international sixties star turned character actor John Phillip Law passed away.  Best known for playing the love sick Russian sailor in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming and Angel in Barbarella; he had had a long a varied career that included Hurry Sundown, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and The Cassandra Crossing.  In his later years he became a familiar face on such TV shows as The Love Boat, Murder She Wrote, and The Young and the Restless.  But for me he will always be the super cool, leather clad, comic book inspired uber thief Diabolik in Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik! stealing fabulous jewels collections and gold shipments while making fools of both the Suerte and the French underworld. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.