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William Mapother - Cruise's cousin


He's creepy good in this. But with a Character name like Ervil, he's gotta be creepy anyway. He was great in Lost.
Forgot he's Tom Cruise's cousin.

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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality

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I watched not too long ago a made for tv movie called "Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story" from 1993 starring Brian Dennehy as an evil man named Ervil. He had countless wives and he even got some of them to kill for him. The movie was based on a true story.

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Ervil LeBaron was a real leader of a polygamous breakaway Mormon sect who ordered at least 13 murders of people, including his brother Joel, he thought were in his way. It's obvious writer Damon Hill named the character of Ervil Barlow after the real Ervil LeBaron.

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Dennehy as an evil man = typecasting.

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He's creepy period.

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Thanks for reminding me that.

Tom Cruise's cousin...
That's unbelievable!

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He was just right for the part of The Prophet. It's strange how figures like him still have sway in Mormon communities, with their 'dream revelations.'

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