Watched a few of his panels on youtube.He just seems like the kind of guy you want to have a beer with and listen to him tell stories.Similar to Dennis Franz in that because of their natural tough guy demeanor's they both got cast as cops a lot.
shareHe's awesome in The Fog and Halloween III, which is a classic, despite all it's haters.
share☝️Agreed, liked both of those same movies and he appeared in the original Lethal Weapon movie. Haven't seen Night of the Creeps yet but he probably makes it watchable. Good actor cut from same cloth as Dennis Farina.
shareThe Fog is a candidate for my all time #1 horror, and Atkins is indeed great in it.
shareI saw him at a horror convention around 3 weeks ago and I regret that I did not talk to him.
shareHe's incredibly cool... and he enjoys talking about the movies. Years ago, I worked at a place in Pittsburgh that did specialty banquets and I was bartending. He was there for this event and he just kind of hung around and talked to me and my co-worker because the event we were working was kind of stuffy and he seemed not interested in it. Anyway, we got to chatting talking about "The Fog" and other films and it went kind of like this:
Me: Tom, you were a ladykiller in the horror films.
Tom: Yeah, I got lucky
Me: Except "Lethal Weapon" of course
Tom: Well, that's because that prick Gary Busey shot me before I could get laid!
Seriously - cool, funny and down-to-earth.
You can see a lot of him in the In Search of Darkness documentary series. I agree he seems really fucking cool
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