This one is a little strange. Is it cool? Sure. Interesting? No doubt. But definitely a little strange. Let’s take it step by step.
Ray Fulk was 71 when he died last July. He lived alone on a 160-acre property in Lincoln, Ill. that he inherited from his father. He had no family or children.
“He was a loner, and a lot of neighbors didn’t know who he was,” Behle said.
What Fulk did have, though, was an admiration for actors Kevin Brophy and Peter Barton, whom he had never met. He admired them so much that he left his estate to be split between them. [Yahoo!]
Now, if the names Kevin Brophy and Peter Barton don’t ring a bell for most of you, there’s a pretty good reason for that:
Barton is known for his role as Dr. Scott Grainger in the soap opera “The Young and the Restless” from 1987 to 1993.
Brophy was in the 1977 show “Lucan.” Fulk had a poster from the show on the wall of his house, according to the State Journal-Register.
To recap: An Illinois man who lived by himself on a 160-acre farm, and didn’t know most of his neighbors, left the majority of his estate, which is valued at over a million dollars, to a soap opera actor from the 1980s and the star of a 36-year-old boy-who-was-raised-by-wolves-is-an-adult-now show called Lucan, whose poster he kept on the wall of his “absolute filthy mess” of a house.
Seems reasonable.
After Fulk died, Brophy and Barton received letters informing them of the bequest. The two are friends who had acted in the film “Hell Night” in 1981. They could not be reached for comment.
Can you even imagine? You’re just sitting in your recliner at home, regaling your loved ones with another story about the time you appeared as Damon Lusk on Baywatch or as Chuck in the film Code Name Vengeance, when you open up a letter informing you that a wealthy hermit you never met left you half a million dollars in his will. What would you do?
Me? I’d work on getting Code Name Vengeance 2 greenlit. THE SAGA CONTINUES.
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I suppose things like this happen when you haven’t revised your Will for thirty years.
Yep, that’s why my Will still states that if I die, all of my estate should be divided between Max Ray and Ace McCloud from “The Centurions.”
Never revise your will. Your earthly possessions seem to be going to a good place.
What about the zany clause requiring them to appear at his funeral in character or star in a biopic about Fulk’s life?
Ah, one of my hometowns….I am thoroughly not surprised by any of this.
At first glance I thought that was a picture of John Stamos. I figured he was a big Full House fan which would understandably make him a loner.
And all they have to do… is stay overnight in the haunted estate!
+5
What isn’t stated in the article? They have to act out his hand-written slash fiction first.
Well, at least he stayed busy in his later years by writing Lucan reviews on IMDB.
Oh, a fansite. [lucantheseries.webs.com]
I am pitching two older soap opera actors try to run a farm in Illinois that they inherited as a wacky sitcom. I called it! I am calling Kenneth Parcell the president of TV right now.
Sooooo much opium!!!!!
HOLY CRAP – I remember this show. In one episode he was helping a school kid who was being bullied by classmates. The kids locked a gate to prevent him from getting into school so the Lucan dude leaped over the gate and unlocked it. Leaped over it like a creature. Like a wolf. LIKE A LUCAN.