(1) Chris Walas's Build-Up Gorilla Bash (2) Chris Walas's Build-Up Gorilla Bash !!! Part 10.Body Building ! (1) Chris Walas's Build-Up Gorilla Bash !!! Part 11.the almost final chapter !! (1) Chris Walas's Build-Up Gorilla Bash !!!. Bob and Kathy Burns (1) Body fur (1) Bollywood (1) Bonga (2) Boris Karloff (2) British (1) Build-up Gorilla Bash (1) Bull Montana (1) burlesque (11) Buster Crabbe (2) Calvert (4) Cameron Mitchell (2) Captive Wild Woman (3) Carmen Nigro (2) Carry On (1) cartoon (8) Castle Films (2) Catherine Schell (1) Cecil Holland (1) Charles Gemora (33) Charles Murray (1) Charlie Chan (1) Charlie Gemora (1) Charlie Gemora : genius Monkeyman (2) cheesecake (13) Chris Casteel (2) Chris Mueller (1) Chris Walas (15) Chris Walas's Build-Up Gorilla Bash.Part 8. (1) Alan Alda (1) Alan Young (1) albino (2) alien (1) Americana (9) Anne Bancroft (1) Ape Suit Cinema (4) armature (1) art (7) Art Miles (4) auction (2) autograph (1) ballyhoo (7) Basant (1) Beast Wishes (1) BEHIND THE APE BALL (6) behind the scenes (5) Bela Lugosi (5) Betty White (1) bikini (1) Bill Black (3) Bill Fredericks (1) Bimbo (1) BIMI (1) Bing (1) bio (4) Birthday (2) Black Zoo (1) Bob and Kathy Burns (3) Bob Burns (26) Bob Burns suiting up. George Barrows' Mechanical Monkey Marvel !!!.George was very generous is providing hi resolution scans of George Barrows actual letters sent to him as a young man, and we now present them here.Ī huge thanks to my friend George Phillips for his generosity ! George Phillips is a friend of mine through the Ape Suit Cinema board on Facebook, and I very much value that friendship. Barrows had taken the time to fully diagram many of the steps with hand drawn illustrations ! Not only were the steps, discussed in detail, but Mr. Then there was also the added worry, that maybe a busy Hollywood type would find no time for a letter from a kid.Īfter waiting for a seeming eternity, a letter finally arrived in young George Phillips' mailbox.Įxpecting a short note of some sort, young George was delighted beyond words, to find that the elder George have not only responded, but had taken the time to meticulously spell out each and every step of the process for creating a gorilla suit like his own. Unlike the lighting fast advent of email, the mail at the time could take days, to even weeks till you would get a response. Now this was way back when communication of this sort comprised of taking a pencil, and actually writing your thoughts down on paper. With the highest of hopes, into the mail it went. Barrows became a hero to young George Phillips, and the younger George took an interest in becoming a mighty gorilla man, like his idol.īeing a resourceful youngster, George got a hold of Barrows address and decided to write him a letter, asking the older George how to go about making a gorilla suit like the one Mr. Young George Phillips developed a fondness for the work of Mr. Now enter a young lad from the bayou state of Louisiana. Needless to say, after the suit was repaired, the suit was never rented again. He had cut holes in the hand tied fur suit, to add ventilation, and had broken the mechanism that drew back the lips into a fierce snarl. The English stuntman that wore the suit, nearly destroyed it. When the suit arrived back in the States, George was devastated ! Rather than playing the title role himself, he was talked into renting his phenomenal suit to to the British production and shipped his suit to England. There is however one movie that is credited to George Barrows that he never appeared in, and that would be "Konga". George donned a space helmet, instead of his gorilla noggin to star in the notorious "Robot Monster "!
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