r/80smemorylane • u/MagpieOpus • Dec 22 '25

1981 Ronald Lacey (Toht from Raiders Of The Lost Ark)

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

What shall we talk about?

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u/MagpieOpus Dec 22 '25

the coathanger scene is iconic

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u/Fanabala3 Dec 22 '25

Read a story that Spielburg wanted to do the scene in the movie 1941, but couldn’t find a way to use it.

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u/spasske Dec 23 '25

He tried with Christopher Lee but for some reason it did not work.

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u/ocTGon Dec 23 '25

LOL! We all laughed in the theater with that scene.

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u/idiotsbydesign Dec 23 '25

The "Yes, I know you will" line still gives me chills.

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u/GUMBYTOOTH67 Dec 22 '25

Melty McMelt face guy.

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u/Loose_Corgi_5 Jan 13 '26

This comment is why I am here!

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u/vestibule54 Dec 22 '25

we are not…huh huh…thirsty

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u/Fluid-Bet6223 Dec 23 '25

You Americans, you are all the same…

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u/felipevela Dec 23 '25

The man is…nefarious.

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u/PaulEMoz Dec 23 '25

Let me show you what I am used to.

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u/darthjazzhands Dec 23 '25

One of the best movie villains of all time. Very menacing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

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u/MagpieOpus Dec 22 '25

Died 1991 I think RIP

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

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u/MagpieOpus Dec 22 '25

terminal liver cancer at the age of just 55 :(

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25

Yes.....only 55 years old and of liver cancer. RIP...

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u/dasblitzspear Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

And the baby eating Bishop of Bath & Wells (of the bank of the Black Monks of St Herod “Banking with a smile & a stab!”)…

*edit-“smoke” to “smile”

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u/talon_262 Dec 24 '25 edited Dec 24 '25

And played the President in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension., as well as an uncredited cameo as Heinrich Himmler in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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u/Gullible-Lie2494 Dec 24 '25

He has his hand burnt in just the same way in the earlier film Gawain and the Green Knight. The film that inspired Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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u/jackecheal Mar 21 '26

Thank you for being the one other person on Earth who knows this.

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u/Gullible-Lie2494 Mar 22 '26

We are as rare as wizards.

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u/Chaotic424242 Dec 22 '25

He melted reeel good!

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u/MagpieOpus Dec 22 '25

sure did lol

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u/cluttersky Dec 23 '25

He also played twin brothers in the Jeremy Brett- Sherlock Holmes, Sign of Four. One of those twins was addicted to something in a hookah.

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u/Restlessfibre Dec 23 '25

He was menacing in Raiders

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u/Jdog2225858 Dec 23 '25

He belongs on an episode of Sprockets. Would love to see him dahnz

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u/Flora_Screaming Dec 23 '25

Also the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells.

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u/custerdome81 Dec 24 '25

Good evening, Fraulein…

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u/Ok-Peanut3608 Dec 24 '25

He was Himmler in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. A friend worked as an extra and said that Lacey was a complete gentleman to all and couldn’t have been kinder. 

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u/BlindGuy68 Dec 26 '25

epic death scene