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| Above, Larry Vincent as Seymour. |
Here's a name (and person) I haven't heard or thought about for years. A post about him was posted on my high school's alumni Facebook page.
Back in the early 1970s, a horror host was on the L.A. airwaves named Seymour. I used to watch his programs featuring science-fiction and horror movies (generally the low budget kind).
According to Wikipedia:
Larry Vincent (June 14, 1924—March 8, 1975) was an American television horror host, famed for his character "Seymour," who presented—and heckled—low-budget horror and science fiction movies on Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, both local stations in Los Angeles between 1969 and 1974. He was noted for his style of criticizing the movies he presented in an offbeat and funny manner, usually appearing in a small window which would pop up in the corner, tossing a quip, then vanishing again. Sometimes he would, using blue-screen, appear in the middle of the movie, apparently interacting with the characters in the movie.
Unfortunately, Vincent passed away of stomach cancer in Burbank in 1975.
As far as I can remember, there hasn't been a horror host in Los Angeles since.
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