Lenny von Dohlen Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lenny von Dohlen was born in Augusta, Georgia. As a child, he wished to become a jockey, but grew too tall for his dream. He graduated from the University of Texas/Austin and majored in drama at Loretto Heights College. His film debut was in the Academy Award-winning Tender Mercies (1983), starring Robert Duvall, written by Horton Foote and ...
Home Alone 3, Electric Dreams, Teeth, Tender Mercies, Leaving Normal, Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, Jennifer 8, Dracula's Widow, Billy Galvin, Under the Biltmore Clock, Beautiful Loser, One Good Turn, Camilla Dickinson, Downstream, Broken Horses, Choose, White Camellias, Obituaries
Star Sign
Capricorn
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[Stage work] is what brought me to the table to begin with. I had never thought about movies or TV. It just happened by accident. I was in New York doing my plays, and I got 'Tender Mercies'. 'Electric Dreams' was really quick after that.
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I'm reminded of the scene in the movie [Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] with Sheryl Lee, whom I adore. It goes back to that scene about each character having their own world. It is almost like lava. At that moment in their lives, both Laura and Harold had a lot going on, separately, but when it came together, it was supercharged. Nobody knows how many levels that scene plays on. By the end of it, we were both shaking. Sheryl was really shivering. She had put herself through it. I was worn out, too. When it was over, I saw some movement out of the corner of my eye. David [Lynch] was dancing a jig. I thought, 'Wow. That's what it should be about'. He was celebrating the exploration. He acknowledged the moment. And that is very, very rare. - on playing "Harold Smith" in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992).
I wanted to be a jockey when I was growing up. But I grew too tall. I grew to be six-one. It was devastating. Somehow acting came up, and that became my obsession. When that devastation happened with the jockey business I thought, 'Okay, I don't want to be the kind of actor who does just one thing.' So I thought, 'I've got to get rid of my Texas accent.' I saw an ad in the back of Life magazine for John Gielgud doing Shakespeare - 'The Ages of Man'. It came on a record, so I sent away for that. I listened to it until I completely exorcised my Texas accent. I moved to New York, and I got 'Tender Mercies' and I had to get a Texas accent! I had to play a good ol' boy! So I called my brother. I would just talk to him!
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The one thing I was most desperate to avoid, when I got into movies, was becoming typecast.
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I love working with the dedicated people at this theater. They are pursuing this for truth and beauty, not just as a springboard to the next job. Before I decided to be an actor, I wanted to be a jockey, but then I realized I wanted to be more than a Texan cowboy. - Von Dohlen, interviewed by Travis Michael Holder, June 25th, 2004
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My nature was one that I didn't think I'd be happy doing something that was dispassionate or routine. I didn't know if it came to me in a dream, but whenever the decision was made, it was total and the obsession was absolute. - from the Lenny Von Dohlen interview in American Premiere, May 1992
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Fact
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Attended the 2012 Twin Peaks UK Festival in London [October 2012].
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Attended the 2002 Twin Peaks Festival. [August 2002]
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Attended the 2010 Fall Hollywood Show in Burbank, California, which held a Twin Peaks (1990) reunion. [October 2010]
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Attended the 2011 Twin Peaks Festival. [August 2011]
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His parents own Von Dohlen Motors, a car dealership in Goliad, Texas.
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Suggested that his Twin Peaks (1990) character Harold Smith, instead of hanging himself could gas the orchids and himself, and die with all the orchids lying over him. As he came up with this idea quite late, the scene couldn't have been changed, but as a compromise, a scene where Von Dohlen gases the orchids was added.
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