In case you’ve been maintaining with Quentin Tarantino since 2019’s As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood, you’ll know that few characters have ever piqued his curiosity the best way Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton has. Tarantino has teased a brand new guide known as “The Movies of Rick Dalton,” and certainly, simply final week, a mysterious new Wikipedia page went up that stuffed out Dalton’s filmography in an intriguing method. Now, through the official Twitter feed of the Video Archives Podcast, which he hosts with Roger and Gala Avary, he’s confirmed the “loss of life” of Rick Dalton on the ripe outdated age of ninety. The podcast can be hyping a particular commemorative episode dropping on Tuesday that may study a number of the finest roles.
We’re saddened by the information of the passing of actor Rick Dalton, finest identified for his roles within the hit TV sequence Bounty Regulation and The Fireman trilogy.
Rick handed away peacefully in his house in Hawaii and is survived by his spouse Francesca.
RIP Rick Dalton 1933-2023 pic.twitter.com/j51sNEh7AP
— The Video Archives Podcast (@VideoArchives) May 19, 2023
Tarantino has been fastidiously build up his fictional Rick Dalton universe over the previous couple of years, primarily by his As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood novelization that confirmed, amongst different issues, that Dalton had a modest comeback within the seventies and eighties earlier than retiring in his fifties. The guide additionally reveals that Dalton was bipolar, which fuelled his alcoholism. He ultimately gave up ingesting after the suicide of a younger actor named Pete Duel (a real guy), who was equally stricken. In keeping with the Video Archives feed, Dalton remained married to his Italian spouse, Francesca (who helped him and Cliff Sales space tackle the Manson Household), and the Wikipedia web page revealed he and Sales space made a sequence of hit B-action motion pictures for Cannon within the eighties known as The Fireman.
As an enormous fan of the Video Archives Podcast, which is wrapping up its first season and QT getting ready for its tenth and last movie, I’m hyped for this particular Rick Dalton episode. I’m extremely excited for his guide, The Movies of Rick Dalton, which follows his wonderful non-fiction Cinema Speculation. I additionally hope that, if certainly his subsequent movie is a few movie critic in Los Angeles within the seventies (as rumoured), DiCaprio may present up as Dalton in some capability, as I actually assume it’s one of many actor’s finest roles.
