Dear Cinema Weekly
I am an avid reader of your magazine.
I am writing this letter as I find the actor who played the ill-fated gas station attendant in On the Waterfront quite dreamy and I wondered who he was as his name was not listed in the end credits.
Please answer my letter as soon as you can otherwise I will start self-harming myself again.
Sarah Sunshine
Wimbledon
Dear Sarah Sunshine
Thank you so much for your lovely letter to Cinema Weekly but I am afraid you might have to get the razor blades out as I have found out very little about the actor who played the ill-fated gas station attendant in On the Waterfront.
What I can tell you is that the name of the actor is Prefect and that On the Waterfront was his one and only movie.
He later appeared in Gigi with Leslie Caron playing the ill-fated gas station attendant and was next seen in Father Goose with Cary Grant playing the ill-fated gas station attendant.
His career slowed down after this movie and he was not seen for nearly forty years until he appeared in Last Tango in Paris the ill-fated gas station attendant.
Prefect was born in Hungary in 1909 the son of a gas station owner and a gas station attendent.
His early movies were all made in Hungary and Japan when the actor was known only as Largo which was his mother’s birth name until the age of six.
He changed his name to Prefect on his marriage to a cactus in New Mexico in 1930. The reason for this name change was never revealed.
Prefect died in Arizona in 1989 when a pick-up truck ran into the gas station that he owned with his wife incinerating both the actor and a kangaroo in the back of the truck.
He can be seen next as the ashtray in the new Transformers movie which is due for release on the 13th of January 2017.
Heidi sends her regards and says that if you want to borrow her thrush cream again then you will have to return the original tube which has a special offer token attached to it.
We are living opposite the Gillette building in West London should you want to pop around but please do not self-mutilate as you did before as the cleaning bills were horrendous.
Bye for Now
Gary and her film buff friends at Cinema Weekly