This was an interesting find in my seemingly endless stash of forgotten family photos: my father, the actor John F. Kearney. I thought I'd post these snapshots in honor of National Sibling Day. I'm an only child, and he's a man-child, so it's close enough.
These photos were taken at 1776 Sweetwood Drive in Broadmoor, California, sometime around 1976. John definitely belongs in what Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock referred to as the "Smiling Irish Bastard Hall Of Fame." But in a good way, of course.
My dad has told me, time and again, that he thinks smoking is a dirty habit—and yet, here he is, with a big ol' pipe in his mouth! Oh well, it was the 1970's, after all. My mom was obsessed with how "tall" my dad was, and she probably took this photo to show how big he was as compared to that large-ass tapestry on the wall.
Speaking of the 1970's. That couch. His collar. Those Erté prints. A few years later, my dad would co-star as "Professor Atkinson" in one of the weirdest, tackiest, and most curiously grim 70's horror films ever: the karate-torture-porn "classic" Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death (1979). It's a scary flick, let me tell you. Even scarier than this Herculon couch.
If you're interested, check out this interview with John F. Kearney, courtesy of The Eerie Midnight Detective Agency.
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