Ron Faber Biography, Wikipedia

American actor Ron Faber, widely known for his role in the 1973 movie The Exorcist, has sadly died from lung cancer.

Faber died on March 26th 2023. He suffered from lung cancer, reports have unveiled.

Faber was 90 years old when he died.

In this article, Nigeriabombshell.com breaks down Ron Faber Biography, Wikipedia, cause of death, age, career, the Exorcist plus more.

Ron Faber Biography / Wikipedia

Ron Faber was an American actor, famous for a small but memorable role he held in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist.

Faber was born on February 16th 1933 in Milwaukee, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

He died in March 2023, at the advanced age of 90.

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The young Ron Faber grew up with a passion for jazz music and the Disney film “Fantasia.” in the 1930s US.

As he grew, he developed different passions, eventually landing at Marquette University where he pursued a business degree.

Faber swiftly landed his first entertainment job working on a children’s radio show.

He then went on to join the Marquette Players and the Van Buren Players, where he was discovered by Broadway star Eva Le Gallienne.

Le Gallienne helped Faber acquire a scholarship to direct at the Lucille Lortel White Barn Theater in Westport, Conn., which kickstarted his theater career.

The actor starred in a number of off-Broadway productions during the duration of his career, including “Happy Days” at the Cherry Lane Theatre; “Stonewall Jackson’s House,” “Times and Appetites of Toulouse Lautrec,” “The Beauty Part” and “Tunnel Fever” at the American Place Theater; “The Last Laugh” at the Jewish Repertory Theatre; “Lucky Stiff” at Playwrights Horizons; “Hamlet,” “Mary Stuart,” “Scenes From Everyday Life” and “Woyzeck” at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre; “Troilus and Cressida” at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre; and “Doctor Selavy’s Magic Theatre” and “And They Put Handcuffs on Flowers” at the Mercer Arts Center.

His performances in And They Put Handcuffs on Flowers won an Obie Award, and that put him on the radar of director William Friedkin.

Friedkin would cast Faber for his signature role in The Exorcist, a 1973 American supernatural horror film. That was his feature film debut and he made it a memorable one.

He played Chuck, an assistant director on the film-within-the-film dubbed Crash Course, which stars Ellen Burstyn’s character Chris MacNeil.

Chuck was the one who arrived at Chris’ house to deliver the horrible news that Crash Course director Burke Dennings (Jack MacGowran) has been found dead.

When he delivers the awful news to Chris, no one has known that the director was actually murdered by the demon-possessed Regan (Linda Blair).

Faber also provided additional demon sounds that were layered into Mercedes McCambridge’s vocal performance as the demon, which he landed after recording demon sounds for Friedkin.

Aside The Exorcist, Faber had other roles in movies such as Navy SEALs, The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover, and Soup for One.

Ron Faber is survived by his wife, Kathleen Moore Faber and four children. He had one son, Eric, die before him.

Wife and Children

Ron Faber’s wife was Kathleen Moore Faber, who is still alive.

The couple have been married for decades and share several children. Information on their marriage is unfortunately scarce.

However, Ron and Kathleen Faber Moore had five children – Eric (deceased), Hart, Raymond (Sadia), Elise Manuel (Alex) and Anthony; as well as numerous grandchildren and step-grandchildren.

Ron Faber Death MSN

Ron Faber sadly died in March 2023 at the age of 90 due to lung cancer.

His death was announced by his longtime friend, actor David Patrick Kelly in a Facebook post.

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“Ron Faber has passed…first met him when I was a dishwasher/sub-bartender at the Mercer Arts Center,” Kelly began.

“He was performing Arrabal’s And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers about political prisoners in fascist Spain for which he won an OBIE. We worked together a few years later in a workshop of Rado and Ragni’s cartoon musical Tarzan in New York City,’ he continued.

“One of the true knights of American avant theatre as a founding member of Joe Chaikin’s OPEN THEATRE which greatly influened me and so many others…a great artist and gentleman with a wonderful voice and laugh,” he added.

The Exorcist

Ron Faber won critical acclaim for a small memorable role in the 1973 film the Exorcist.

The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin and written for the screen by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel of the same name.

It starred Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran (in his final film role), Jason Miller and Linda Blair. It followed the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through an exorcism conducted by a pair of Catholic priests.

In the film, Faber plays Chuck, the assistant director of Crash Course, the movie-within-the-movie in which Ellen Burstyn’s actor character Chris MacNeil stars.

In a pivotal scene, a stunned Chuck arrives at MacNeil’s Georgetown home to deliver the news that Crash Course director Burke Dennings (Jack MacGowran) has been found dead on the steps outside.

“I supposed you’ve heard,” he says, then realizing his mistake, adds, “You haven’t heard. Burke’s dead. He must have been drunk. He fell down from the top of the steps right outside. By the time he hit M Street he broke his neck.”

At this point in the film, no one besides the possessed Regan (Linda Blair) knows that Burke was murdered in a very gruesome way by the demon.

Faber also provided additional demon sounds that were layered into Mercedes McCambridge’s vocal performance as the demon, which he landed after recording demon sounds for Friedkin.

“When I did get a copy of the script and read through it, I had fallen in love with the demon and I thought the demon was really interesting and I wanted to get a chance at doing some voice over work,” Faber said in a 2016 interview with Coming Soon.

“So I went to the producer of and he had a friend who had an audio studio and I made a recording for William Friedkin who took it and told me that he would listen to it later down the track. When he finally did listen to it – and shooting on The Exorcist was done – he called me over to come to Los Angeles and do an hours work on doing one of the voices of the demon,” Faber explained.

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“Friedkin told me that there were three people doing the voice of the demon for the film. He was determined to make sure that the devil did not sound like just one person, he wanted it to sound like a legion of voices. So he had Mercedes McCambridge do the core part of the voice of the demon, and myself and someone else, and I never got any credit for it. That was my shock when I saw the movie – Mercedes McCambridge got the sole credit on the end film, so that pissed me off,” he added.

Though he added that he was only in LA for a day, and only worked for an hour, he believed that bits from his original recording actually made it into the film.

“There were things from that recording that I was certain made it into the final film, and these were mostly sounds that I made – deep guttural moaning and groaning. The sound design people on the film played with the voices, mine included, and did the overlapping and so forth. Mercedes was the person responsible for all the wheezing! She was a well known asthmatic!” he added.

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