When Lotus posted his picture yesterday, my wife and I debated which actor (who usually plays villains) the CEO of Lehmans’ resembled. Part of it is just that things aren’t going well for Mr. Fuld:
It seems anxiety from the financial crisis is reaching new highs, but the tipping point for one individual came at the Lehman Brothers gym in the midst of the company’s collapse.
…”Frankly, I sat there and listened and I’m with the guy who apparently, the day before Barclays announced they were coming in and Lehman had already filed for bankruptcy, went over to him in the gym and punched him because that’s how I feel when I, you know, when I watched that,” Ward said on the Oct. 6 “Power Lunch.” “I didn’t think he was contrite at all, I thought he was arrogant.” …
“From two very senior sources — one incredibly senior source — that he went to the gym after … Lehman was announced as going under. He was on a treadmill with a heart monitor on. Someone was in the corner, pumping iron and he walked over and he knocked him out cold. And frankly after having watched this, I’d have done the same too.”
h/t Kingfish
Don’t know how well they match Fuld body-wise, but Dustin Hoffman or Al Pacino would be my casting suggestions.
If he had the teeth he’s pretty close to a ringer for this Villain:
http://www.spotoneventsdirect.co.uk/JAWS1WEB.jpg
I’d say Frank Langella. He was one of the bad guys in that classic POTUS flick, ‘Dave.’
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/12126
The closest in appearance and menace is Andreas Katsulas, who played the one-armed man in the movie “The Fugitive” and, for you Trekkies, Commander Tomalak on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Unfortunately, he died in 2006.