TV and Movies

[just bee]

John Turturro

[Coquille]

@just bee Michael Shannon has played some roles where he gives me the willies, creepy. Then he plays a good guy. He really is a good character actor. He always gets to me, whatever role he's playing.

[just bee]

Tim Roth

[just bee]

Frank Whaley

[just bee]

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@Coquille wrote:

@just bee Michael Shannon has played some roles where he gives me the willies, creepy. Then he plays a good guy. He really is a good character actor. He always gets to me, whatever role he's playing.

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@Coquille

Creepy is an understatement!

[Oznell]

Oh, boy, what a tough one, @YorkieonmyPillow.

Of course, I immediately think of the ones from the 'classic age' of film.

Let's see.

Thomas Mitchell--   Father of "Scarlett O'Hara", reporter buddy of Jean Arthur in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and countless others.  Deceptively good, versatile actor.

Eve Arden--  Sardonic perennial sidekick, typecast as "career gal" (ha).  Hilarious delivery and comic timing.  Assistant and confidante of "Mildred Pierce",  wry secretary to Jimmy Stewart's criminal lawyer in "Anatomy of a Murder".

Oscar Levant--  real life serious pianist, who played the occasional, wry, self-deprecating sidekick, often in musicals or musical bios, like he was John Garfield's best buddy in "Humoresque",  and Fred Astaire's musical comedy pal (along with Nanette Fabray) in "The Band Wagon".

Then there's Charles Bickford, Edward Everett Horton, Hattie McDaniel, Hume Cronyn, Elisha Cook, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi...

They all had that extra "something", in spades.  But there are so many others I'm crazy about, can't think of just now!

You thought up a terrific thread, @YorkieonmyPillow.

[kaydee50]

Walter Brennan, winner of 3 academy awards; James Gleason from the '30s and '40s and great in Here Comes Mr. Jordan; Peter Lorre.

More current ones, W.H. Macy.  Many of the ones mentioned, I've never heard of--LOL!! 

[GenXmuse]

Tilda Swinton And Mads Mikkelsen 

[YorkieonmyPillow]

My DH likes Bruce Bennett aka "Herman Brix," (I think that was his real name), anyway, he lived to be 100 and he was in the Olympics and I don't know what all......he was in Mildred Pierce (Bert Pierce) and Dark Passage with "the Hump."

My faves are from Old Hollywood also, @Oznell, as I can't stomach contemporary movies (most of them...)

[kelsey17]

Charles Coburn

Ed Asner

Brian Dennehy

Walton Goggins (Justified)

Edmund Gwen