Bob was one of my favorite character actors. I loved his gravelly voice and that catcher's mitt of a face that had dockyard and dogface toughness written all over it.

The Animal's real name was Stanislas Kasava (which I still use as an Internet alias from time to time), and fans of the movie will remember he had a major crush on pinup Betty Grable. When Harvey Lembeck dresses up as a girl for the POW's Christmas party, Strauss hallucinates that Lembeck is Betty and creeps Lembeck out when he takes his delusion a little too far.

In addition to "The Animal," he's best remembered by the MooT as Beer Barrel in "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" (1954), PFC Bernstein in "Attack" (1956), Black Frankie Udino in "I, Mobster" (1958), and Romeo Scragg in "Li'l Abner (1959). He was also the janitor in Marilyn Monroe's and Tom Ewell's apartment building in "The Seven Year Itch" (1955).

A quintessential "New York actor," Bob moved from Broadway into TV in the early Fifties, appearing in many shows emanating from Manhattan — things like "Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, "The Alcoa Hour," "Damon Runyon Theater," "The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater," "The Ford Television Theatre," "The Colgate Comedy Hour," "The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse," "Cavalcade of America," and the "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars."

He appeared as a guest star in numerous TV shows in the Sixties.

Bob died in 1975.

MooT Clue-in-the-Dialogue: "They feel no fear. Cortical nerve clusters show complete inactivity. They feel no pain. Concepts of morality are disengaged. They feel no regrets. No remorse."

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Mother ...

And daughter ...

Although Eva looks like she got more of "it."