TOUCH OF EVIL SHOE SALESMAN DIES

[Harvey Chartrand]

VICTOR MILLAN (real name Joseph Brown) Died Apr. 3, 2009
(from Entertainment Insiders – http://www.einsiders.com)
Actor and college dean Joseph Brown died at age 89. Mr. Brown was a well-known character actor who worked under the stage name Victor Millan. He was the Dean of Theater Arts at Santa Monica College. As Victor Millan, he appeared over 80 films and TV shows. Mr. Millan played Manelo Sanchez, the man Orson Welles tries to frame for murder in the last Film Noir classic "Touch of Evil." Mr. Millan played Sal Mineo's father in George Steven's classic "Giant." His final feature film appearance was in Brian DePalma's "Scarface."

[nextren]

Very sad.

He was underrated in TOE. Watch his performance again - it's blazing, Mercury-level stuff. He was plainly on the same wavelength as Welles and lapped up his direction with alacrity.

I daresay without him TOE would not be quite the film it was and is!

"Strange? Unpleasant? I've been told I have a very winning personality!... Can't you do something to help me?"

[tonyw]

He was also great in TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN where he stands up to Nedrick Young's black-clad gunfighter who is an allegorical embodiment of the blacklist.

[Alan Brody]

He was excellent as Sanchez in TOE. What part did he play in Scarface?

[Rick Schmidlin]

This said news, I wish I had met him.