Bob Druwing's lensography

Bob Druwing is a member of The Screen Actors Guild and The American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, who makes his home in Hollywood, California. A lifelong actor, he is also a singer/songwriter, guitar player, stand-up comedian, cartooni...

This is the latest headshot of actor Bob Druwing taken in Hollywood by Hollywood Walk of Fame photographer Bob Freeman. Recently, Bob has been making regular appearances on the third and fourth seasons of "Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" on The...

This is actor Bob Druwing's first headshot. It was taken by photographer Nancy Klemm at Cameo Studios in Boston, Massachusetts on June 24, 1989. You can see all of his headshots, character pictures, resume, fine art and cartoons, hear his voice-over...

This picture of Bob Druwing as Jimmy Reese from the Brad Jacques film "Leaving Scars" was taken at his home in Maine.  

This is Bob Druwing as a drunk Confederate battle re-enactment soldier at The Gettysburg Civil War Museum in the film Soulkeeper. This was Bob's first film role in Hollywood, though he came to town with a 9 1/2 year track record in films and TV. Vis...

This photo is of actor Bob Druwing at age 43 having undergone weeks of training with free weights, tanning and getting a tight black perm to portray Dominic Romano at age 28 (and 63) in the ill fated film "Broken Dreams", which was schedule...

This is actor Bob Druwing as his character John Deerhunter in a photo by Hollywood Walk Of Fame photographer Bob Freeman. Click on the link below to go to The Official Bob Druwing Website to see more of Bob's characters, get biographical and career...

This is a picture of actor Bob Druwing on a break, but in character, during the shooting of the HBO Television show CARNIVALE.

This is Dai Kornberg as Oliver Hardy and Bob Druwing as Stan Laurel in 2007 on Hollywood Blvd. They are available for films, TV and personal appearances and can be contacted via Bob's website. Click on the link below. Most recently, they appeared in...

Buntline is Bob Druwing's cowboy character, who has shown up for most of the westerns Bob has worked in and is generally altered little by the productions' wardrobe departments. Everyone seems to like the hat, which he has owned since the 60's. Cli...

I first met Brad Anderson in the Spring of 1990, at an audition for his "A Short Film About Bowling", held at the Boston Film and Video Foundation. He'd set it up in the form of a table reading and I was reading the part of Tony, a street drunk. I de...

Brad Jacques is a film director, editor and actor. Originally from Massachusetts, he now makes his home in Los Angeles, California.

"Tim and Eric auditioned me after I told them I could sing Stardust like Nat King Cole. The next thing I knew the third segment of the audition, where they had me singing one of their tunes like the worst of American Idol, was on YouTube as a promoti...

Paul Warren had always supposed that what he had been told while growing up was true, that he could have done anything in life, because he was very bright and talented, healthy and energetic and he came from fortunate circumstances, had loving parent...

Please read the first part of this story at the link below. ------------------------------------------------------ From Pt. 1: At the sound of the word "go" Stephanie had taken off like a hundred meter sprinter out of the blocks and by the time De...

The motto of Framingham State College is "Live To The Truth". I was a freshman English major there in 1971 and I thought it was as meaningless a suggestion as I had ever encountered. I had graduated from a Jesuit high school (where I became...

Please read parts 1 and 2 of this novel about serial killers and those who hunt them at the lens links below. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Part 2: In figuring out who a killer might be, it was necessary...

Too Wise is an original design by Bob Druwing, which was first crafted in pen and ink on paper with a sculpture in mind. Other than the picture seen here, it existed briefly in mural form on a wall in the forth floor hallway of Wheeler dormitory at U...

Beatrice was a Goddess Beatrice was an omen Beatrice was an instant A moment...

My father taught me how to draw when I was five, while I lay in a hospital bed recovering from a concussion suffered in a fall from a yard swing. Naturally, he taught me simple cartoon animals first and, of course, Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Popeye t...

The motto of Framingham State College is "Live To The Truth". I was a freshman English major there in 1971 and I thought it was as meaningless a suggestion as I had ever encountered. I had graduated from a Jesuit high school (where I became...

I like detective films, Los Angeles, art deco and Jack Nicholson and I feel strongly nostalgic for the America of the thirties (through the fifties). Roman Polanski's Chinatown provides all of these things and much, much more. Robert Towne's screen...

Coppola released Apocalypse Now Redux in 2001, restoring an additional 49 minutes of footage that he reluctantly cut from the original. It's a bigger movie, but not necessarily a better one, because the original is a perfect film. I think of Redux a...

"Jeremiah Johnson made his way into the mountains "Bettin' on forgettin' all the troubles that he knew...."

The 1978 film, shot in England and featuring Robert Mitchum as Marlowe, is a good film, but the 1946 theatrical release with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is a GREAT film. Most people are unaware that there is also a 1945 pre-release version, mo...

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove is a magnificent dark comedy with a fabulous cast giving top flight performances including three seperate major roles played by the great Peter Sellers. The film mirrors Fail Safe in that it postulates what could ha...

Lena Olin Is absolutely the most impressive screen actress alive! Watch her in anything. I dare you to tell me I'm wrong.

A screen actor's performance takes place in his eyes. There is no man on the screen today who demonstrates this better than Don Cheadle.

Madeleine Stowe's performance in The Two Jakes wasn't actually her screen debut, but it was the one that brought her to prominence. She was fantastic and she hasn't disappointed us yet!

I can't sell you the technology to do the cloning, but we all know it exists and you can now buy his DNA embedded in a piece of chewing gum available on eBay! Plus, you'll automatically make a donation to Save The Children. I can swear to you that i...

While interest rates are lower than they've been in decades and prices are WAY down, you should take advantage of the opportunity to buy this great four bedroom split entry home on 2.4 acres of lawn and wooded land in beautiful, quiet Limerick, Maine...

When I was a boy, my father used to pay me to pull weeds when he mowed the lawn. Soon I started weeding the gardens at a local restaurant. Then I got a paper route. When I was fourteen, I got my working papers and became a busboy in a cafeteria. I've...

This is a watercolor of a photograph of Main St. Limerick looking Southeast. A beautiful small town of 2400 year 'round residents, built principally on farming and The Limerick Mills, Limerick still has that small country town feel to it. A great p...

If you are going to be in Mexico City, you absolutely MUST schedule a day to go to Teotihuacan! It is not to be missed and you certainly won't regret the time and effort it takes to see it. Take a tour bus from your hotel and enjoy your friendly tou...

Encompassing the sidewalks of Hollywood Blvd. from Gower St. to LaBrea Ave. and Vine Street between Sunset Blvd. and Yucca St., the Hollywood Walk of Fame delights movie, recording and broadcasting fans from around the world.

There is no reason for a miracle to take any time. The truth is not limited by the constraints of the space/time continuum. The eternal now is not "time". It is always now. This is the the truth of your existence.

He defends his having used hallucinogens to open the doors of perception, he argues the connection between HIV and AIDS is ONLY theoretical, he'd rather be surfing than working, but Kary Mullis is the man who figured out that if you could successfull...

Is the cat dead or alive? Well, according to Schrodinger, quantum theory says: until you open the box,...it's both! Confused yet? It gets worse. Because opening the box alters the conditions, it can't be said that the cat wasn't alive be...

The principle of Occam's Razor can be stated in many ways, but the above is how one most often encounters it being expressed. Lisa Simpson put it this way: "The simplest explanation is probably the correct one." Professor Frink would be loath to arg...

Although she says she's the queen of sappy love songs, in truth, Delilah is the mother of the call-in love song request, relationship advise, radio show. She's a force of nature and a huge success and she deserves to be.

Kurt Wenner is a master at chalk art and street painting. His depth perception is amazing and let's face it, you have to visualize it before you can execute it. He's known for producing stunning original works of art in a few days that will delight...

Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler warned us about the "military industrial complex" decades before President Eisenhower did. What he said is at least as relevant today as it was then. The most highly decorated soldier of WWI, Butler had...

I don't know if it has anything to do with my dad having been an engineer, but McCloskey's two books of short stories about a boy inventor from Centerburg, Ohio had an influence on me that lingers to this day.

"Man and His Symbols" came about as the result of one of the great psychologist's dreams in which he imagined that his work was appreciated not only by psychiatrists, but a greater public. He agreed therefore to write and edit this amazing work. In...

If not actually familiar with Heller's 1961 novel Catch 22, most people are familiar with the use of the term catch-22, which has become a part of our lexicon and is used to describe a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no esca...

"Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you'; mature love says, 'I need you because I love you'." -------------------------------Erich Fromm in "The Art of Loving"

Richard Brautigan wlll make you think about things in ways you never would have otherwise . He'll make you feel in ways you may have been afraid to feel on your own. He'll make you laugh out loud at the insanity we all encounter in life, with chara...

Born July 10, 1938 in Philadelphia, Lee Morgan was arguably the greatest trumpet player ever recorded. Turning some of the greatest heads in jazz by the age of 15, Lee went on to write his own ticket after the success of his cross-over hit "The...

Stephane Grapelli was originally a pianist, but found his voice with the violin and led the way during a career as THE jazz violinist. Largely paired with guitarist Django Reinhardt until the latter's death in 1953, Grappelli continued to play into t...

McCoy Tyner plays piano like he knows something that nobody else knows. It's astonishing. You've really got to hear him play to understand.

You've heard Toots harmonica playing throughout your life, though you may not have known his name. A guitarist and whistler who has played with some of the top artists in the music business, Toots Theilemans is best known as a harmonica player,...

Say what you will about Rudy Van Gelder, but the jazz world, and thus the world at large, wouldn't be the same without him. He recognized a need when he was still a teenager and set out to fill it by starting Van Gelder Studios in his parents home i...

When you first listen to Leo Kottke, it's hard to believe you're hearing only one man playing one guitar. You'd swear you have to be hearing AT LEAST two! The first time I heard him, I didn't realize I was listening to a live recordi...

Jazz guitarist Barney Kessel was a regular with Oscar Peterson, but teamed with many other greats including Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Julie London, Ray Brown, Shelley Manne and Stephane Grappelli.

As guitarist Bob Enik once put it to me: "Jeff Beck can do more with one note than some guys can do with an entire song." I would only amend that to say "most guys". You have to listen to understand. 

When Jeff Beck invited another guitarist into the band, all his fans sat up and took notice. Jennifer Batten has proved that she is worthy of such attention everywhere she's played. She'll blow your socks off!

...that's where I'd have to begin to place the jaw dropping guitar licks of Boston area native, Bob Enik. Have you ever witnessed a fine car racing toward a solid object, knowing it doesn't have time to stop and yet it does? I can't tell you the num...

Phil and Don!

Karla Bonoff is a singer-songwriter from California, who has performed as a solo artist, back-up vocalist for Linda Ronstadt and Wendy Waldman and member of the group Bryndle. Her songs have been covered by such top artists as Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie...

Harry Nilsson was a singer and songwriter, who played guitar and keyboards. He was a double Grammy award winner with two singles that made the top ten. His songs were used as movie and television themes and other artists had hits with covers of his...

With a truly unique voice and a terrific talent for writing and playing, Jesse Colin Young founded The Youngbloods, as well as showing prowess as a solo artist and gave us great songs like "Get Together", "Josianne", "Darkness, Darkness", "Sunlight"...

There is really no one else quite like Mose Allison and this is the case whether you are speaking of him as a singer, a pianist or as a songwriter. Always good for a laugh and a lesson, Mose Allison has given us lyrics that have contributed entire s...

Rick Nelson was an enormously successful singer, songwriter and actor in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. His dad, Ozzie Nelson, was a big band leader. Rick found fame, while still a child, on the fictionalized TV show about his family: "Ozzie and Harriet...

Phil was never one to say anything half way. He sang of love and he sang about America in the sixties and seventies, but he would be overshadowed by Dylan during his lifetime and, like the lessons of the Vietnam war, he is largely unremembered today...

Definitely give Chris Smither a good listen and see him, if you can. He wrote "Love You Like A Man" and, honey, you know he can!

Charlie Farren is a Boston area singer, songwriter, guitarist and band leader. He did a stint as the lead singer (and guitarist) in an early incarnation of the Joe Perry Project and formed Farrenheit with bassist David Hull and drummer John "Muzz" Mu...

Jon Pousette-Dart is a singer-songwriter and founder of the Pousette-Dart Band. His most recent solo album, "Heart and Soul", was nominated for seven Grammy awards.

If only you believed in miracles, you dreamed some day you might sing half as well as Marty Balin. --------------------------- Immortalized in the movie "Gimme Shelter", Marty was the only star at the Rolling Stones' Altamont Rock Festival with the...

What can one say to describe Billy Eckstine's voice? I always think of butter, richness, smoooooth... Billy really set the standard. But like all great music, words can't describe it fully; it must be heard to be appreciated.

If you don't come away from listening to Johnny Mathis feeling positive, there's gotta be something seriously wrong with you! So, if that's the case, seek help! Then get some Johnny Mathis playing and feel good!

Steve Marriott was a powerhouse! He had one of the greatest voices in rock music and was the founder of both The Small Faces and Humble Pie. When he left The Small Faces, it took Rod Stewart and Ron Wood to replace him! They didn't fill his shoes, m...

"How can we keep love alive "How can anything survive "When this little town tears you in two? "What a town without a pity can do" Gene Pitney was one of the most accomplished musicians in popular music during the 50s, 60s, and 70s. He also wrote h...

Billy Strayhorn showed up one day at an Ellington performance, demonstrated for Duke how he would play a song or two of Duke's and the rest was history. They were to spend the next quarter century as collaborators. Billy Strayhorn wrote Duke's them...

You know their music, even if you don't know it's their music. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller wrote songs that you've been hearing your whole life.

"Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely nights dreaming of a song "The melody haunts my reverie and I am once again with you "When our love was new and each kiss an inspiration, "But that was long ago; now my consolation "...

The list of recordings where you can hear Nicky Hopkins is as long as your arm. The list of people he played with is nearly as long, including The Who, The Kinks, Donovan, The Jefferson Airplane, The New Riders Of The Purple Sage, The Beatles, John...

Tal is a twenty-three year old Australian woman, who discovered the bass after three years of playing guitar. She never looked back and three years later, she not only went pro, but began taking the music world by storm. If you haven't seen video of...

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers was more than a band. It was an academy. The list of great musicians who played with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers seems never ending: Clifford Brown, Keith Jarrett, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Bennie Golson, McCoy Tyner, Fr...

To say that Billy Higgins played with everyone in jazz during the second half of the twentieth century is not really an exaggeration and when you listen to him play, you understand why.

If you and Charles Mingus are gonna team up as the rhythm section in his band, it's really gonna help you, if you happen to be Dannie Richmond.

Most well known as a Muddy Waters sideman, at ninety-six years of age, Pinetop Perkins is still one of the greatest working blues piano players!

You know Willie's songs, but you may not even know it! Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Mose Allison, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds, Cream, The Animals, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, The Doors, Paul Rogers, Koko Taylor and num...

Julietta Venegas, the princess of Tijuana, has won a Grammy award and two Latin Grammys. She plays guitar and keyboards, writes very entertaining songs inspired by her life and has a winning personality. You've got to check her out. The first time...

FLICK LIVES! was founded by Steve Marchand, John Desisto, Joe Griffith, Mike Canty and Bob Druwing in late 1969. Drummer Canty was soon replaced by Billy Quirk (pictured here kneeling in the black T-shirt and pants). When bass player Desisto left the...

This is the Telecoustic in candy apple red. It also comes stock in sunburst. For an inexpensive acoustic/electric, you really can't do better. It has a genuine maple Telly bolt-on neck with a 21-fret rosewood fretboard, just like the ones with which...

Fender has redesigned and upgraded the Stratacoustic and Telecoustic acoustic/electric models! The $200 model seen here with fiberglass back and sides is still being produced with the Squier label. The newer deLuxe models from Fender have upgrades...

You'll love Pucca! I do! I once met a female superhero, who introduced me to Pucca and my life was immediately changed. I have been repeatedly enriched by Pucca's unbending intent and her shining power of example. Hooray for Pucca!

When we first listened to Firesign Theatre records back in the legendary late 60s, we couldn't help but notice that every time you listened, you heard something you'd missed before. Amazing stuff, that was always fresh. Not what you could say about...

We can thank Walter P. Chrysler for the introduction of the HEMI to the automotive market. The first ones were 331 cubic inches in displacement, similar to what is pictured here.

This 1984 Winnebago LeSharo was my "art project" in the Summer of 2006. It no longer runs, but is still perfect for a camp house on the hill overlooking the trout stream that is the Southwest border of my land in Maine. Of course I didn't wa...

The Assassination Group is a group dedicated to lenses on political assassinations, related people and topics. There are basically two versions of history. The one most people are familiar with is taught in the schools and in the mainstream media. I...

Although no longer employed by the CIA, as their representative on President Lyndon Johnson's Warren Commission, the most important thing to understand about Allen Dulles is that he made sure there was no discovery of the fact that while he was Direc...

During a drinking session, not long before his death, David Sanchez Morales bragged to his friend Ruben "Rocky" Carbajal about taking care of the Kennedy brothers. If you don't know about this CIA assassin's long career, you've got some intriguing r...

Just as most competent researchers of President John F. Kennedy's assassination had long suspected, because there has been ample evidence of it for quite a long time now (see Mark Lane's 1991 book Plausible Denial, for instance), E. Howard Hunt confi...

As the CIA's Berlin station chief, he successfully built the tunnel to the Soviet sector to spy on their communications, but he's better known for arranging Operation Mongoose, the CIA's enlistment of the Mafia in its plots to assassinate Fidel Castr...

"Legend" has it he was born Joseph Schneider in Bronx, NY. But whoever he was, among his other chores worthy of spy fiction, Sidney Gottlieb was the man who supplied the poisons to the CIA's assassins. He also ran the CIA's MKULTRA mind control pro...

He personified counterintelligence in America, however it's arguable that he did as much harm as good. Among his closest friends was Brithish MI spy Kim Philby, who turned out to be a working for the Soviet Union and who eventually fled to Moscow....

Called out of retirement to be the CIA liason to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, George Joannides never disclosed that he had supervised the DRE, The Cuban Student Directorate, who in 1963 played an antagonistic role in establishing Lee...

Richard Helms, former Director of The Central Intelligence Agency, lied to the House Select Committee on Assassinations of The United States Congress while under oath, however he did tell them that he might expect any CIA operative who was loyal to t...

Robert Maheu, right hand man to Howard Hughes, was the go-between for the CIA in arranging its use of La Cosa Nostra in its plans to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro, under the Eisenhower administration.

Like Jack Ruby, Roselli came up through the Capone gang in Chicago; but Johnny started out with the Winter Hill mob in Somerville, Massachusetts as Filippo Sacco. He went on the lam to Chicago and changed his name after committing his first murder....

Rabid anti-communist and former head of the Chicago FBI office, Guy Banister was a key figure in the "sheep-dipping" of Lee Harvey Oswald that made it easy for The Warren Commission to present Oswald as a communist nut, when in fact he was a U.S. int...

George de Mohrenschildt was a wealthy Dallas petroleum geologist and engineer at the time of President Kennedy's assassination, but in fact he had intelligence connections dating back to at least WWII, at which time he worked as an Allied Intelligenc...

When asked if Phillips was the man who he saw meeting with Oswald, not one to directly rat him out, anti-Castro Cuban Antonio Veciana asked, "Does he have a brother?"

Years ago I became curious about why there was so little written about Lisa Howard and she became a particular point of focus for me. Call it intuition. She was an actress who scored the first major interview with Krushev at the U.N. in 1960, by mas...

Writer and TV game show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen was the only journalist granted an interview with Oswald murderer Jack Ruby in his Dallas jail cell. Subsequently, she publicly stated that she intended to publish information that would "blow the JF...

It is now well known that Mary Meyer was John F. Kennedy's most favored mistress, but only recently is it becoming generally accepted by the JFK assassination research community that her murder may have been connected to his assassination after all.

The first African American Secret Service agent to see presidential protection duty was framed and imprisoned because he knew too much about protocol violations by JFK's team in Dallas and a previous threat against JFK in Chicago that brought Oswald'...

During a drinking session, not long before his death, David Sanchez Morales bragged to his friend Ruben "Rocky" Carbajal about taking care of the Kennedy brothers. If you don't know about this CIA assassin's long career, you've got some intriguing r...

He's the guy the mainstream media has told you about, in connection with an audio recording of RFK's shooting that has been the focus of recent legal and media attention, but for some reason, the mainstream media has been unwilling to supply his name...

Perhaps no other assassin has had more awareness of placing himself in the history books than John Wilkes Booth, as is evidenced by his cry of "Sic semper tyrannis! (always thus with tyrants!)" and leaping to the stage from President Lincoln's privat...

Amid an enormous arms build-up across Europe, the June 28, 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife was all it took to prompt nations poised to do so to launch the first world war, which killed nine million people....

Leon Trotsky was one of the leaders of the October Revolution in Russia and was second only to Vladimir Lenin, but his opposition to Stalin and the bureaucratization of the USSR led to his expulsion from the communist party, his deportation and his e...

Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat was the third president of Egypt. He served for eleven years before his October 6, 1981 assassination.

The legally elected president of Chile was the victim of a CIA engineered coup that resulted in his death in September of 1973. He was replaced by the brutal dictator General Augusto Pinochet.

The self-aggrandizing tyrant was assassinated following a plot by a group of wealthy Dominicans, but the CIA is known to have supplied much of the weaponry and to have been extensively involved in the plotting against him.

Lumumba's leadership would last only ten weeks, before he was deposed and murdered, because of his intention to align his uranium rich nation with The Soviet Union. The CIA has claimed they were uninvolved, though they are known to have been arrangi...

Ngo Dinh Diem and his younger brother and secret police chief, Ngo Dinh Nhu, were executed by their captors following their surrender after being promised safe passage. The lesson then was (as it is now): if you are going to be a puppet for the U.S....

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