In 1976, a young New York actor stepped into the role of Charles Manson in the TV movie ‘Helter Skelter.’ He’s been dealing with the repercussions ever since
— which drew a staggering 55 million viewers back in those three-network days — Railsback remains the actor most associated with the role. He was also the first to deal with the repercussions of portraying a murder-ordering cult leader, which has been a blessing and occasionally a curse over the last 43 years.
Originally from Texas, Railsback moved to Manhattan at 21 and worked his way into its theater community; his first cinematic role was in Elia Kazan’s 1972 drama. Railsback was invited to L.A. to attend the premiere of that film and, strangely, wound up staying at the very same Cielo Drive home where the Tate murders had taken place. His manager, Rudi Altobelli , owned the home and had rented it to Tate and Roman Polanski that fateful summer.
Offered the role of Manson, Railsback initially turned it down. “I didn’t want to be [typecast],” he says. At the urging of Kazan, who knewdirector Tom Gries, Railsback relented. “If I’m playing a killer, that’s a negative,” he says, “but you turn a negative into a positive.”and watched a documentary to study Manson’s way of walking and talking. Since Manson had said he felt most secure in jail, Railsback locked himself in a room in his home a few times.
that eventually went to his friend Gary Busey. “It was a wonderful role, but I still had Manson on my mind, and I said no,” he says. “It was stupid. How did I know it was going to make $80 million? People said, ‘If Railsback turns it down, it’s gonna be a hit!’ We all make stupid choices sometimes. I’ve made a few.”, and has continued to work; last year, he starred opposite Tom Berenger in a western,. But today, he largely considers himself retired.
Clearly, we’re still fascinated with Manson and what happened over two nights in 1969. But for his part, Railsback doesn’t know why movies and books on the subject keep rolling out. “I’ve asked myself that question,” he says. “Why do they keep doing these? What else are you going to learn? What the fuck? You’re just giving him all this attention. People would call me up and say, ‘Manson’s going to be on Tom Snyder’ or whatever. I didn’t care. I said, ‘I don’t want to watch it.
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