OBITUARY

R.I.P.
MICHAEL HIGGINS
1921 - 2008

FILMOGRAPHY:

1958...Edge of Fury
1964...Terror in the City
1969...The Arrangement
1970...Wanda
1974...The Conversation
1975...The Stepford Wives
1976...Death Play
1978...An Enemy of the People
1978...King of the Gypsies
1979...The Black Stallion
1981...Fort Apache the Bronx
1982...A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1983...Staying Alive
1983...Rumble Fish
1985...Girls Just Want to Have Fun
1985...1918
1985...Seven Minutes in Heaven
1986...On Valentine's Day
1987...Angel Heart
1988...Crusoe
1989...New York Stories
1989...Dead Bang
1990...The Local Stigmatic
1992...Death Becomes Her
1992...Wind
1992...School Ties
1998...The Impostors
1999...Just the Ticket
2000...State and Main
2001...Buddy & Grace
2002...Mean People Suck
2002...Swimfan
2004...Messengers
2006...Off the Black
2007...The Savages
2007...The Favor
2008...An American Carol
2008...Synecdoche, New York

Michael Higgins is best known for his role in the hit Broadway production of "Equus" but he also had a long and respected film career, working with everyone from Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese to Woody Allen Robert Zemeckis. I remember him as the fair-minded teacher in "School Ties" more than anything else. He will next be seen in his final role in Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York", a proper farewell for a true master of his craft.