I think this thread calls for people whose names go above the movie title
― gabbneb, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Robert Davi and Eric Roberts, who I used to get confused with each other.
― nickalicious, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Eventually I lost a $1 bet on that guy from Goonies being Julia Roberts' brother.
― nickalicious, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
There sure are a lot of famous people on this thread.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Michael Shannon
Kathleen Wilhoite
J.K.Simmons
Tony Cox
― Eazy, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll see your Tony Cox and raise you a Billy Barty
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Chris Cooper
― jocelyn, Monday, 11 June 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Chris Cooper won an Oscar!
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 11 June 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
ok i think I'm hitting a groove here. Chris Cooper OTM, oscar or no. Toni Collette would maybe qualify, her roles seem to always straddle lead/supporting in a weird way. Dermut Mulroney (sp?). Liev Schreiber!
― tremendoid, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link
claire forlani? she's had leading roles and is a regular on csi:ny now but i always see her and think 'oh it's that girl that was in basquiat'. note: i never saw meet joe black.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Most of the biggest U.S. stage actors fall into this category: Schreiber, Cherry Jones, Dylan Baker for sure, John Mahoney pre-Fraiser, Marian Seldes.
As film actors only: Spalding Gray, Christopher Durang, Wallace Shawn.
For gals: Hope Davis, Laura Linney.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
John Carroll Lynch (best known from Fargo and Zodiac).
― Eazy, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I was watching the filming of a Dark Knight scene downtown last night and I got to wondering if any of the people looking on even recognized Aaron Eckhart. Or even Maggie Gyllenhaal, for that matter. Or, if he'd been there, Christian Bale. They're all relatively big names, but they probably could still just about walk down the street unmolested, I'd bet.
P.S. I am very out of touch with popular culture as it is experienced by most people kthanxbye
― Deric W. Haircare, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
P.P.S. I was also watching the filming of a scene from Larry the Cable Guy's upcoming laffer Witless Protection (ha! ha!) this afternoon and, although I'll bet most of the people in the crowd probably recognized that talentless douchenozzle, nobody really acted like they gave a shit.
― Deric W. Haircare, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i best know john carroll lynch from drew carey show reruns. he was a major character on that. i don't know if he counts, though tbh i couldn't have told you his name.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Cliff Curtis
― spectra, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link
CCH Pounder Judy Greer Paula Marshall Michael Kelly Paul Ben-Victor Adam Goldberg
― David R., Tuesday, 12 June 2007 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
(not so much movies, my 6, but still)
― David R., Tuesday, 12 June 2007 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Gene Hackman
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Alec Baldwin
Doris Roberts
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Woohoo! Kathleen Wilhoite, Laura Linney, Doris Roberts....
Who was that woman who played the psychic in the Poltergeist movies? I'm not sure if she was really a midget or just very very short.
Marcia Wallace Julie Kavner Grrr... Can't think of her name, but the woman who played Selma on Night Court. Connie Selleca
― Hey Jude, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
-- spectra, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:38 (3 hours ago)
he's world famous in NZ!!
(and apparently he's a bit of a wanker)
― Rubyred, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 05:53 (sixteen years ago) link
We already had a thread about this:
Faces: a thread for supporting movie/tv actors whose mugs most of you would recognize, but whose names you'd never know.
I suggested these two there:
http://www.crazy4cinema.com/Actor/imgs/levy.jpg
http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/Movies/Actors2/Baranski_JF88657838_150x200.jpg
I also think Ron Perlman fits the bill, vbecause he has an instantly recognizable face, but I doubt that many people could actually name him:
http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/news/images/m/movies/sq-ron-perlman-2003-intv.jpg
(Okay, he had the lead role in Hellboy, but it's not like he got really famous for that.)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 06:52 (sixteen years ago) link
that woman has an eerie resemblance to ron perlman... are you sure that isnt' him in drag?
― Rubyred, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 09:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Peter Stormare is a good one because everyone recognizes him but they're always like "they cut-off-your-johnson guy!" or "the guy who put Steve Buscemi in the woodchipper".
― nickalicious, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
hell yes Peter Stormare is a good answer, been noticing him lately. And he was in the Frogger episode of Seinfeld.
― Ste, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
In response to a gentle letter from a New York lawyer, dying of cancer in a hospital, who said he very much wanted the couple to be reunited, Fowles wrote back, "Yes, they were." On the same day he got a "horrid" letter from an American woman who angrily demanded, "Why can't you say what you mean, and for God's sake, what happened in the end?" Fowles replied curtly: "They never saw each other again."
― gff, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
oh shit! wrong thread!! um, yes peter stormare!
― gff, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/2323/Events/2323/MaryKayPla_Grant_2061253_400.jpg
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/mary-kay-place1.jpg
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Celia Weston
http://www.kfilmu.net/obrazky/herci/celia-weston.jpg
Patricia Clarkson
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/movies/filmography/3/WireImage_3662214.jpg
― jaymc, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
William Bendix
http://www.nndb.com/people/727/000031634/bendix-999002700.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Larry Hankin
http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/immagini/hankinl.jpg
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Brian Cox
http://www.nndb.com/people/712/000072496/cox-sm.jpg
― jaymc, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.michaelromanos.com/pictures/stock_photos/seymour_cassel.jpg
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
peter stormare just might be my #1 'that guy'
― tehresa, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link