15 July 2021

Joe Turkel

 Spectacled Birthday


Joe Turkel as Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner, 1982.

Turkel's more famous roles are Dr. Eldon Tyrell, the eccentric god-figure in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), and Lloyd, the ghostly bartender in Kubrick's The Shinning (1980). He is one of only two actors (the other being Philip Stone) to work with Kubrick as a credited character three times: in The Killings (1956, as Tiny), in Paths of Glory (1957, as Private Arnaud), and in The Shining (1980, as Lloyd).