{"id":2968,"date":"2016-12-21T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2016-12-21T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:02:05","slug":"prefect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/prefect\/","title":{"rendered":"Prefect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Dear Cinema Weekly <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I am an avid reader of your magazine.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Please answer my letter as soon as you can otherwise I will start self-harming myself again.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Sarah Sunshine<br \/>\nWimbledon <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Dear Sarah Sunshine <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Prefect was born in Hungary in 1909 the son of a gas station owner and a gas station attendent.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>His early movies were all made in Hungary and Japan when the actor was known only as Largo which was his mother\u2019s birth name until the age of six. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He can be seen next as the ashtray in the new Transformers movie which is due for release on the 13<sup>th<\/sup> of January 2017.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Bye for Now <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Gary and her film buff friends at Cinema Weekly<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}