OT: RIP Actor Reg E. Cathey, UM Alum
"Reg E Cathey, who featured in the US version of House of Cards and in The Wire, has died aged 59...
He won an Emmy award in 2015 for his House of Cards role as Freddy Hayes, the owner of a restaurant favoured by Kevin Spacey’s character, Frank Underwood.
In The Wire he played Norman Wilson, a newspaperman who became a political operative.
Cathey told the Guardian in 2016 that his career took off after Barack Obama was elected president because people could begin to accept the idea of a well-spoken black man.
“He got inaugurated, and I started working like a fiend – hired by the same people who would previously ask: ‘Have you always spoken like that?’ It’s like, you know what, motherfuckers, yes, I have,” he said.
Cathey was born in Alabama and spent time in Germany as a child. He attended the University of Michigan and the Yale School of Drama."
EDIT: removed Cathey quote "The world is being destroyed by psychopaths", reference to 2016 Guardian interview with Cathey.
February 10th, 2018 at 11:45 AM ^
February 10th, 2018 at 11:46 AM ^
RIP Freddy.
February 10th, 2018 at 11:50 AM ^
Great actor with a tremendous voice. Wish we got to see more of him.
February 10th, 2018 at 11:57 AM ^
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February 10th, 2018 at 12:23 PM ^
Liked him in Oz on HBO. Had no idea he went to Michigan.
RIP
February 10th, 2018 at 12:25 PM ^
on Oz. I remember him from that show first. Solid actor. Good chops.
February 10th, 2018 at 12:28 PM ^
One of Cathey's earliest roles was on Square One TV on PBS, a show well known for its mass inclusion of references to the University of Michigan (several of the creators of the series were Michigan alums.)
Square One is also the origin of Mathman, he of the winged helmet and my longtime Twitter avatar.
February 10th, 2018 at 12:30 PM ^
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February 10th, 2018 at 12:50 PM ^
February 10th, 2018 at 1:53 PM ^
by psychopaths? It is from an older article about the man.
February 10th, 2018 at 1:58 PM ^
Why not? The article tells us more about the man.
February 10th, 2018 at 3:54 PM ^
and has nothing to do with his death or connection to UM.
February 10th, 2018 at 4:25 PM ^
But the quote has everything to do with his life and legacy.
February 10th, 2018 at 4:27 PM ^
Do you really think it is appropriate to display his ignorance of the nature of Man at the time of his death?
February 10th, 2018 at 4:51 PM ^
Well, I don't know, certainly no one is stopping you from displaying your ignorance.
February 10th, 2018 at 4:51 PM ^
Well, I don't know, certainly no one is stopping you from displaying your ignorance.
February 10th, 2018 at 4:56 PM ^
You exhbit a complete lack of knowledge of anything other than how to be a dumbass.
February 10th, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
It was a copy and paste artifiact from the Guardian article. I have edited it out. I did get the picture with the classic Cathey stare, however.
February 10th, 2018 at 4:56 PM ^
Sigh. I knew someone from the mgoblog thought police would complain about politics.
February 10th, 2018 at 5:01 PM ^
That is government regulation of one's thoughts. In case you didn't notice this board is not the government. It is a privately-owned board that explicitly forbids political chatter because it soon dissolves into ugliness as this thread proves.
The statement has nothing to do with the man's relevance to Michigan, which is what this particular board is dedicated to. It is the political beliefs of the man.
February 10th, 2018 at 5:28 PM ^
Look up the definition of thought police and try again. It is not necessarily government regulation of one's thoughts.
February 10th, 2018 at 2:20 PM ^
February 10th, 2018 at 4:28 PM ^
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February 10th, 2018 at 3:31 PM ^
“The world is being destroyed by psychopaths, so of all the things to be concerned about – acting, it’s not really up there, is it?"
February 10th, 2018 at 3:56 PM ^
If you want to believe in falsehoods go right ahead. But it has no place in a post about a man's death.
February 10th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
Yeah, that part really affected your life. That's why you couldn't let it go.
February 10th, 2018 at 5:07 PM ^
The issue is why you and another are trying to defend an unnecessary political statement.
February 10th, 2018 at 5:49 PM ^
The world is being destroyed by psychopaths, so of all the things to be concerned about – someone posting a quote on a message board, it’s not really up there, is it?
February 10th, 2018 at 6:28 PM ^
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February 11th, 2018 at 8:03 AM ^
This is a "political" quote?
February 10th, 2018 at 5:12 PM ^
That all I have to say about his untimely death. He was a great character actor.
February 10th, 2018 at 5:31 PM ^
rest in peace, dirty dee.
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February 11th, 2018 at 3:06 PM ^