David Lochary

An eccentric, whisper-thin actor who played over-the-top villains in several early films of Baltimore-based director John Waters, Lochary met the director in the late 1960s when Waters was making amateur films starring his high school friends. Lochary joined the so-called "Dreamland" stock company and his first-known role was as Dr. Coat Hanger in "Mondo Trasho" (1970). Filmed silent with music and narration added later, the film was a nonsensical stream-of-consciousness tale of a blonde bombshell (Divine) who runs over a woman (Mary Vivian Pearce). At the finale, Dr. Coat Hanger--for no apparent reason--grafts big monster feet onto the woman and is stabbed to death.