Maybe he was in this play, and needed a prop:

Seems Camino was a scientist working in Germany during WWII. Along with other scientists, he was forced by Hitler to find a way to make him immortal. But the best they could come up with was to lop his head off, put in a jar, and hook it up to a machine, keeping the dictator alive indefinitely. To keep it a secret, the SS kill all the scientists who performed the surgery, but Camino, somehow, managed to survive to tell the tale.



http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3bthea...lersbrain.html



Crazy Man!