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Post by spiderwort on Aug 6, 2023 20:14:22 GMT
I love character actors! Films wouldn't be the same without them. Here are just a few of my favorites out of hundreds: S. Z. Sakall.
Here with Bogart in CASABLANCA. I think my favorite of his performances is a toss-up between IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME and CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT.
 Jane Darwell, as Ma Joad in THE GRAPES OF WRATH, my absolute favorite of all her performances.  Arthur O'Connell, with Rosalind Russell in PICNIC, my favorite of his many wonderful performances.  Mary Wickes, who held her own with all the great stars in the classic era and continued on into the '90s. My favorite out of many of her performances is probably THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER.  Walter Brennan, a giant, here with Brandon de Wilde in GOODBYE, MY LADY. I think one of my favorites out of all his amazing performances is in MEET JOHN DOE. "The Helots have got you. The Helots have got you." I'll never forget the magic of that.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 6, 2023 20:45:47 GMT
Some faces that often appeared in film noir. Elijah Cook, Jr.  Luther Adler  Lee Van Cleef  Charles McGraw  |
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 6, 2023 21:21:49 GMT
 Eric Blore |
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Post by Teleadm on Aug 7, 2023 5:30:34 GMT
A few that comes to mind...  Una O'Connor  Edna May Oliver  Sir C. Aubrey Smith  Alan Hale |
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 7, 2023 5:34:22 GMT
John Douchette  King Donovan  The ultimate supporting player - Whit Bissel  Morris Ankrum  Byron Foulger  Alan Jenkins  Charles Halton  |
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Aug 7, 2023 6:46:40 GMT
Movie goers knew Gladys Cooper as an older woman in movies like Now, Voyager...  ...but she had a long career in the British theatre before Hollywood. She remained beautiful into her old age.  She and Bette Davis were longtime friends.  My Fair Lady  With Robert Redford in the Twilight Zone: Nothing in the Dark  Song of Bernadette  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2023 14:08:38 GMT
Robert Morley The African Queen  Topkapi  Murder At the Gallop 
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2023 14:19:26 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 7, 2023 14:28:05 GMT
PaulsLaugh & @longtallsally - Just a biographical note about two great players you've mentioned: Gladys Cooper was Robert Morley's mother-in-law. How appropriate they're listed here one after the other. Saw them together on a talk show in the late 60's or thereabouts, and although Cooper insisted that nothing Morley ever said could be relied upon and treated him with equal parts exasperation and indulgence, it was clear they adored one another, and their mutually wicked teasing was part of a delightful game they played.
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 7, 2023 17:00:32 GMT
 Esther Howard  Esma Cannon  Robert Helpmann  Sydney Tafler |
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Post by phantomparticle on Aug 10, 2023 0:34:28 GMT
Gladys George  The young Gladys, unlike her later screen image, in Chickens (1921). Her birth date was variously given as 1900 or 1904.  "He used to be a big shot." The Roaring Twenties (1939) Her most famous role as the hard-edged chanteuse with a deep sense of melancholy and unrequited love for gangster Cagney.  The Hard Way (1943), with Ida Lupino. Much of her life mirrored what we saw on the screen. |
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 10, 2023 21:15:19 GMT
 Thelma Ritter  Murray Melvin  Joan Shawlee  Hattie McDaniel  Jay C Flippen  Mike Mazurki |
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 11, 2023 4:05:44 GMT
A Rogue’s Gallery of Villains Douglass Dumbrille  Eduardo Ciannelli  Lionel Atwill  Howard da Silva  George Zucco  |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 11, 2023 22:02:55 GMT
Minerva Urecal
Mildred Dunnock
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Post by politicidal1 on Aug 12, 2023 15:25:06 GMT
mikef6, Also let's not forget...
Guy Rolfe
Robert Douglas
...and Torin Thatcher
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