Kevin McCarty passed on Saturday, taking another chuck of our film history with him. Mr. McCarthy has been a workhorse character actor for decades, but is undoubtedly best remembered as the star of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, standing on a crowded highway and yelling at the passing cars, “You’re next!” I most recently watched him chewing the scenery with great panache as the villain in Weird Al’s UHF at a midnight screening earlier this year.
Although I never saw him personally, Mr. McCarthy worked the convention circuit pretty heavily, and apparently was an extremely pleasant and gracious fellow who enjoyed interacting with his fans. Certainly there are worse epitaphs than that. RIP
