David Gale

David Quentin Gale (2 October 1936 – 18 August 1991) was a British character actor.

He is primarily known for his role as the evil, treacherous, and ultimately, re-animated neurosurgeon Dr. Carl Hill in the 1985 cult classic film Re-Animator, and its 1990 sequel Bride of Re-Animator. citing Catholic guilt and emotional struggles. He survived by getting a job as a busboy in an Italian restaurant. Afterwards, he was hooked, and after his second appearance in a production, he claimed to have "cried and cried with joy from the sheer thrill of it all," as the curtain came down, stating, "I thought to myself, 'I found a home — the theatre'." He struggled to get his foot in the door, though, so he made do with many odd-end occupations, including: a bartender, a carpenter, a pinboy in a bowling alley, a treetopper, In 1963, he would also enter his first marriage with Sandra Edmonds and have his first child, Meighan Gale. He ran his own experimental theatre in the late sixties and early seventies, the Workshop of the Players Art in New York. He had many brief/background television and film appearances during this time, too, in Legend of the Lost, Naked City, Search for Tomorrow, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, The Jackie Gleason Show, and Encounter, all uncredited.

Gale died of complications from open-heart surgery on August 18, 1991, in Los Angeles, California.

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