Anthony Thompkins was a middle-talented, almost mediocre, american actor, who was born on December the 14th, 1.954 in Colorado (tierra de campesinos sureños incultos si las hay) and died on May the 11th of 1.988, totally forgotten by everyone on this planet except, perhaps, by his relatives, in case he had any.
He played very important roles on the american television, like Young Rosco in Beulah Land (1980), Darryl in The Atlanta Child Murders (1985) and the unforgettable, eternal, glorious character of Doo-Doo Breath in the movie School Daze (1988), ironically his last movie.
Anthony Thompkins chased a dream all over his life: to appear on a movie and watch it at the premiere. After years of failing in castings all over the USA, he finally entered to TV. It was to play the young version of a secondary (or terciary) character, in a flashback that lasted 5 secons, with no lines at all. But producers saw his talent and agended him, so after a little time (five years) he could play a boy screaming on a roof, and he got his first line on a TV show in his life-time (and also the last): he screamed "Heeeeyyy!!!". Three years later, Anthony Thompkins was working as a mechanical in Wisconsin, but a well-dressed man came to his dirty taller, and said to him: "You are perfect for my next movie. I have a role that swits you perfectly". So, he abbandoned the taller and promised his wife that this time he would finally make it big. What he didn't know, was that he got the role of a mechanical, so the only thing he could speak in the movie was "it's five bucks, sir". But, at least, he had his life-golden-dream realized: he was on a movie. Or at least half of the dream. The other half was to be in the premiere with his wife. How cruel was the destiny, that he reaturned to his taller but it was closed due to unpayments, and he had a heart attack that let him paraplegic. In a wheelchair, he was dressing to take the bus that would take him to the premiere, but a complication started, and he died because of an embolia. His wife, that tragic afternoon, had to attend an event of her husband, but it wasn't the premiere: it was the funeral.
But people who knew Anthony Thompkins, knew also that he was a brave man, and they paid him an homage that will last forever: on a golden plate, scripted in sanscrit, they wrote: "Anthony Thompkins, you didn't have the talent, but you had the heart". The plate can be seen by tourists today, on the front door of the taller in Wisconsin, in the house that his wife, who was the only person involved in the making of the plate, died on 2002.