Joe Turkell 1927-2022

Joe Turkel, the Bartender in ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 94.

Stanley Kubrick also employed him for 'The Killing' and 'Paths of Glory,' and he was unforgettable as the god-like Tyrell in 'Blade Runner.'

Joe Turkel, who portrayed the haunting bartender in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and the creator of the replicants in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, has died. He was 94.

Turkel died Monday at Providence St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, his family announced.

Turkel also appeared in two other Kubrick films: as a gunman in the climactic shootout in The Killing (1956) and as a soldier sent to the firing squad in Paths of Glory (1957), which the lanky Brooklyn-born actor called the greatest film ever made. (Only Philip Stone has appeared in as many as three Kubrick movies.)