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RIP: John Phillip Law, 70; the statuesque actor who played the blind angel in Barbarella

His acting career spanned nearly 60 years, but he never appeared in a single film rated 7.0 or higher at IMDb. The highest rating in his filmography belongs to Show Boat, in which he was thirteen years old and an uncredited extra!

His highest-rated starring role was in Death Rides a Horse, a spaghetti Western in which he played opposite Lee Van Cleef. Despite the IMDb score, Roger Ebert called it "a bad movie indeed," and awarded a single star, but had some kinder words for Law himself, saying that he "still retains a certain innocence. His eyes are blue, his face unlined, his cheekbones the sort we expect on a young and stubborn hero. He usually wears suspenders in these movies (just as Eastwood smokes cigars and Van Cleef a pipe), and they give him a naive earnestness. We feel that he will doggedly obtain revenge, wipe out the bad guys and return to Hollywood some day. We are on his side. No wonder. He needs us."