By Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic John Mahon, an actor, director and writer who played a police chief in 1997’s L.A.
Confidential and, as a language lab director in one of the creepiest moments of The Exorcist revealed that recorded demon gibberish was in fact backwards English, died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on May 3.
He was 82. The death was announced by his son Joseph Mahon. Having appeared in a short-lived 1971 Off Broadway production of playwright/actor Jason Miller’s Nobody Hears A Broken Drum, Mahon landed a small but pivotal role in his friend Miller’s breakthrough film The Exorcist.
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