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Poltergeist 2's Reverend Kane, played by Julian Beck, is an iconic horror villain despite Beck's battle with stomach cancer during filming. Beck's health condition added to the eerie appearance of Reverend Kane, making him even more terrifying on screen.
He is best known for co-founding and directing the Living Theatre, as well as his role as Reverend Henry Kane, the malevolent preacher in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986).
His intense, imposing acting style was captured vividly in films, such as his sadistic gangster in The Cotton Club (1984) and his creepy, spectral stranger in Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), a rare major role that ended up becoming his final movie.
Julian Beck was incredibly ill during the second Poltergeist movie. MGM Entertainment Co. Arguably one of the creepiest villains in horror history, Reverend Henry Kane is the human form...
Julian Beck may have embodied one of the screen's scariest specters, but in real life, he simply loved frightening conservatives. He was an anarchist, a pacifist and a bisexual who enjoyed an open marriage. He was even a vegan before the term was in vogue.
His intense, imposing acting style was captured vividly in films, such as his sadistic gangster in The Cotton Club (1984) and his creepy, spectral stranger in Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), a rare major role that ended up becoming his final movie.
Horror History: Remembering Poltergeist II’s JULIAN BECK. Mike Sprague |. May 31, 2021. On this day in horror history, Julian Beck was born in Washington Heights, New York in 1925. He is...
Stage veteran Julian Beck was brought in to play the film's major antagonist, Reverend Henry Kane.
Julian Beck Beck was the guy who gave us all the creeps as the preacher Kane in ‘ Poltergeist II: The Other Side .’ Behind that spooky facade was a man fighting his own battle, but not with ghosts or ghouls—nope, they do dirty work by hand.
Similar to her Poltergeist II co-star Julian Beck, O’Rourke had finished shooting the third installment of the franchise, 1988’s Poltergeist III, shortly before her passing.