He looked like this:
And while still in his prime, he appeared in this movie:
The Deep, based on Peter Benchley's follow-up novel to Jaws, was quintessential box office potboiler fare: big name leads, T&A, exotic (for the 70's) location, and a classic conflict theme of Man vs. Nature. In this case, it's a collection of good and bad characters attempting to salvage and profit from a stash of narcotics from a sunken freighter. Unbeknownst to everyone at the start, the sunken freighter sits atop an even older wreck loaded with Spanish treasure. So why is this a Moray Monday feature? Because the most memorable scene from this flick was that of the Louis Gossett Jr. character having his head munched by a huge Green moray. Sadly, despite much searching on YouTube, I couldn't find even a snippet of The Deep, let alone the moray scene. Alas.
So, while completely unrelated to moray's, I'm throwing in this extra HalloMeme treat of a flesh-eating zombie battling a Tiger shark from the Lucio Fulci classic, Zombie.
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Jacqualine Bisset also had an unpleasant encounter with the moray early in the same film. Even my budding queer self did not fail to notice that she was wearing nothing under her wet, clingy t-shirt as she was attempting to escape. I enjoyed The Deep, but it was very much a guilty pleasure, cuz it was pretty trashy.
As children, me and my younger sister would react parts of this movie, specifically the moray eel scene during our imaginary 'disaster/horror' playtime. Oddly enough, I always played JB's character.
The Zombie in the movie clip way outclasses Jacques Cousteau or David Attenborough. Truly, this has made my day.
Taking the Nolte photos, if you extrapolate from the 70s picture and the recent picture to one ten or twenty years hence he will be indistinguishable from a stonefish. See, for example here or here.
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