Erik Gratton
@erikfallsdown.bsky.social
Off-Broadway Guy in SoCal. Made in KC and Detroit.
Narrator, TNG Podcast host.
Grimm, Mrs Maisel, Kimmy Schmidt, etc
Stage: Buddy the Elf at MSG. Homer Simpson, Shrek, Billy Pilgrim, Paul Sheldon, Andrew Cuomo, Hamlet, Benedick and Rosalind.
Narrator, TNG Podcast host.
Grimm, Mrs Maisel, Kimmy Schmidt, etc
Stage: Buddy the Elf at MSG. Homer Simpson, Shrek, Billy Pilgrim, Paul Sheldon, Andrew Cuomo, Hamlet, Benedick and Rosalind.
Pinned
I just won a best actor award from Portland New Alternative Voices for a comedy short I did last year. Roger the Funeral Home Guy was fun to play. My second funeral home guy, if you’ve got one that needs playing.
Enjoyed Peter’s Friends (1992) when it came out. Now that I’m old I think it’s kind of extraordinary.
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Enjoyed Peter’s Friends (1992) when it came out. Now that I’m old I think it’s kind of extraordinary.
There is no better actor on the planet Earth.
Alfre Woodard - 📽️ Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu, 2019)
Woodard gave one of the best performances of the 2010s as the death row warden nearing a breakdown. It’s an unforgettable emotional release for a dynamite lead role—alongside brilliant turns from Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, and Wendell Pierce.
Woodard gave one of the best performances of the 2010s as the death row warden nearing a breakdown. It’s an unforgettable emotional release for a dynamite lead role—alongside brilliant turns from Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, and Wendell Pierce.
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
There is no better actor on the planet Earth.
My respected long-time producer friends who worked on Broadway and The West End w Spacey thought he was the absolute worst person in the business.
December 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My respected long-time producer friends who worked on Broadway and The West End w Spacey thought he was the absolute worst person in the business.
I was in a show off-Broadway during the height of COVID, there was a question of some danger, and at the full-company meeting the first-time producer said “I don’t know much about theatre, but I know this: ‘the show must go on!’” And friends, the whole room booed him mercilessly.
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I was in a show off-Broadway during the height of COVID, there was a question of some danger, and at the full-company meeting the first-time producer said “I don’t know much about theatre, but I know this: ‘the show must go on!’” And friends, the whole room booed him mercilessly.
His is among my favorite film performances ever, but John Hurt, Wendy Hiller, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Leo McKern, Nigel Davenport, Corin Redgrave, even a cue-card-reading Welles and barely-onscreen Vanessa Redgrave are indescribably wonderful in this. Scofield the GOAT.
Robert Shaw in Man for All Seasons gives the kind of great performance that can increase your understanding of a type of person. Fitting that someone who so understood Kings moved shortly afterward to Ireland.
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
His is among my favorite film performances ever, but John Hurt, Wendy Hiller, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Leo McKern, Nigel Davenport, Corin Redgrave, even a cue-card-reading Welles and barely-onscreen Vanessa Redgrave are indescribably wonderful in this. Scofield the GOAT.
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When you hear this sort of thing, it is a chilling look inside a twisted soul. Because there’s objectively nothing good happening right now. Nothing. Just misery, pain, and suffering.
"Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer told Fox News he believes Donald Trump is "maybe the greatest" president in U.S. history.
Kelsey Grammer praises Trump as 'maybe the greatest' president ever
"Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer told Fox News he believes Donald Trump is "maybe the greatest" president in U.S. history.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
When you hear this sort of thing, it is a chilling look inside a twisted soul. Because there’s objectively nothing good happening right now. Nothing. Just misery, pain, and suffering.
Robert Shaw in Man for All Seasons gives the kind of great performance that can increase your understanding of a type of person. Fitting that someone who so understood Kings moved shortly afterward to Ireland.
December 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Robert Shaw in Man for All Seasons gives the kind of great performance that can increase your understanding of a type of person. Fitting that someone who so understood Kings moved shortly afterward to Ireland.
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.
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“Eight Hundred Years of Giving” is of course the official slogan of Britain in Ireland.
December 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“Eight Hundred Years of Giving” is of course the official slogan of Britain in Ireland.
I met Buddy Rogers, star of Wings and Mary Pickford’s husband, sometime in the late 90s, just before he passed. He was from Olathe, KS, where I grew up, and came through to do his cabaret act and watch the local community theatre get named The Buddy Rogers Playhouse. What a gracious dude.
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I met Buddy Rogers, star of Wings and Mary Pickford’s husband, sometime in the late 90s, just before he passed. He was from Olathe, KS, where I grew up, and came through to do his cabaret act and watch the local community theatre get named The Buddy Rogers Playhouse. What a gracious dude.
Stage actors should put their Venmos in their bios.
December 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Stage actors should put their Venmos in their bios.
Robert Wise was a goddamn genius.
I am never going to stop saying this: I like Wrath of Khan too, but Trek could achieve a lot by letting that film rest for a bit and trying to emulate what the Motion Picture achieves.
Full on sense of wonder science fiction about venturing beyond our own understanding of the universe.
Full on sense of wonder science fiction about venturing beyond our own understanding of the universe.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released 46 years ago today.
This film is truly unique within this franchise. I understand that it may not be the most accessible, but I love its tension, mystery, atmosphere, and curiosity.
This film is truly unique within this franchise. I understand that it may not be the most accessible, but I love its tension, mystery, atmosphere, and curiosity.
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Robert Wise was a goddamn genius.
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I am never going to stop saying this: I like Wrath of Khan too, but Trek could achieve a lot by letting that film rest for a bit and trying to emulate what the Motion Picture achieves.
Full on sense of wonder science fiction about venturing beyond our own understanding of the universe.
Full on sense of wonder science fiction about venturing beyond our own understanding of the universe.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released 46 years ago today.
This film is truly unique within this franchise. I understand that it may not be the most accessible, but I love its tension, mystery, atmosphere, and curiosity.
This film is truly unique within this franchise. I understand that it may not be the most accessible, but I love its tension, mystery, atmosphere, and curiosity.
December 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I am never going to stop saying this: I like Wrath of Khan too, but Trek could achieve a lot by letting that film rest for a bit and trying to emulate what the Motion Picture achieves.
Full on sense of wonder science fiction about venturing beyond our own understanding of the universe.
Full on sense of wonder science fiction about venturing beyond our own understanding of the universe.
Not for nothing but I saw Lawrence of Arabia at the Zeigfeld in 2003 with like ten other people there. Religion.
December 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Not for nothing but I saw Lawrence of Arabia at the Zeigfeld in 2003 with like ten other people there. Religion.
Keegan has a bit as Eriq’s lawyer with an improv joke about his tie.
Every episode of ER has one extremely famous elderly guest star that you vaguely remember from your childhood and one extremely famous baby actor who did a guest spot fifteen minutes before they blew up
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Keegan has a bit as Eriq’s lawyer with an improv joke about his tie.
Little girl comes to visit from upstairs. Goodest girl. Best company housing ever.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Little girl comes to visit from upstairs. Goodest girl. Best company housing ever.
I mean, they’re all better actors than Tarantino is.
December 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I mean, they’re all better actors than Tarantino is.
I remember working at Alan’s Alley in NYC, 2006, making *everyone* who walked through the door leave with Brick. Very excited for this.
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I remember working at Alan’s Alley in NYC, 2006, making *everyone* who walked through the door leave with Brick. Very excited for this.
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
I do think a lot of the actors yall ride for are terrible actors but that’s the fun of opinions!
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I do think a lot of the actors yall ride for are terrible actors but that’s the fun of opinions!
A reason movie budgets have ballooned is that “it’s hard to steal a million dollars from a 13 million dollar budget.” Same theory applies here.
It’ll never get completed 🤣🤣
Trump Switches Architects for White House Ballroom Project
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A reason movie budgets have ballooned is that “it’s hard to steal a million dollars from a 13 million dollar budget.” Same theory applies here.
That bit in I, Claudius where the two actors chat about the old days and it ends with “It isn’t what it was” and the response is “It never was what it was” remains undefeated.
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
That bit in I, Claudius where the two actors chat about the old days and it ends with “It isn’t what it was” and the response is “It never was what it was” remains undefeated.
They’re still so jealous about Yeats, Wilde and Joyce.
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
They’re still so jealous about Yeats, Wilde and Joyce.
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"Russia would never attack Ireland" -people in my mentions four days ago
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Russia would never attack Ireland" -people in my mentions four days ago