Character Actor Roll Call

Who am I missing?

:-)

Man, I love him as the father in the The Lady Eve when he walks down the stairs singing "For Tonight We'll Merry Merry Be", sits down at the table, looks around, says "Where's my breakfast?" realizes all the staff are preparing for the party and finally starts banging the shiny food-warming covers together.

"It's an idea, comrades. But who says we have to have an idea?"

James Rebhorn

http://www.cowboydirectory.com/D/dano-royal.jpg

ihttp://www.mergetel.com/~geostan/images/pangborn.jpg

I like this guy too:
Al Bridge
http://www.criterionco.com/content/images/in_focus/misc/IF_AlBridge.jpg

i can't find a good photo of charley grapewin... ignore bette i guess.

http://www.dacre.org/stills/webd/Dav0335.jpg

http://www.rrauction.com/content/images/scans/3098/3098432.jpg

he was sometimes criticized for perpetuating negative stereotypes, but howard hawks gave him a bit of room to stretch out in "rio bravo".

http://www.cinema.com/image_lib/7728_002_thumb.jpg

Help me identify this actor who just walked by me on henry st- charles dance but short, gone to seed and with peppery medium length hair. Plays seedy ex public schoolboy types, after a wash perhaps an eccentric english teacher

Yummy men always attract the gays ( www.camtogays.com )

was there another thread about actor/actresses who are not household names, but you see cropping up in lots of old TV/series?

Anyway, I've been watching an episode of Whack-o from 1960 on youtube and thinking about how much I like Keith Smith's look:

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af8/Gerald_Lovell/vlcsnap-2011-01-03-11h29m59s229.png

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsS/43161-11863.gif

http://cdn.static.ovimg.com/episode/302809.jpg

he makes that facial expression a lot.

he is also still alive, but seems to have retired from acting around 1999

Help me identify this actor who just walked by me on henry st- charles dance but short, gone to seed and with peppery medium length hair. Plays seedy ex public schoolboy types, after a wash perhaps an eccentric english teacher

― al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Saturday, May 4, 2013 10:42 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was the actor who walked past darraghmac on henry st ever identified?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hqLKr0mX3wg/UlnMxsdh5II/AAAAAAAACXY/umo2mkhu5Io/s1600/keithsmith1.JPG

it couldnt have been michael gough could it

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IH7mi74t7XQ/TYP2OjYvrdI/AAAAAAAACQU/g2IEuMdzD1I/s1600/gough%2Bsleepy%2Bhollow.jpg

i think it was tbh??

charles dance but gone to seed hmm not great but i can only see gough now so its gone forever if not him i guess

i am of course now aware that the ghost of michael gough rip probably didnt walk by me on henry st last year

In Brooklyn Heights?

dublin

Watched Desperate Characters again the other night, immediately recognized Chris Gampel as the doctor in Annie Hall:

http://cdn.cinemasquid.com/public/tracks/1ad421b6-c0b1-49dc-ba96-2c302d6d001b/annie-hall-blu-ray-screenshot-0004929-I-300.jpg

"And we've got to try to enjoy ourselves, while we're here."

Frank Morgan
Louis Calhern

https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2014/11/17/what-a-character-eric-blore/

Which was part of this, apparently:
https://kelleepratt.com/2014/11/09/what-a-character-blogathon-the-schedule/

This has the related links, at least one of which has seen been broken:
https://aurorasginjoint.com/2014/10/15/what-a-character-blogathon-2014/

I saw a pleasant Beatrice Lillie silent vehicle last night, Exit Smiling (1926), and Franklin Pangborn played the leading man in her theatrical troupe. It was his first feature film (he was about 37), and already in full nelly mode, panicking constantly with hands in flight.

see 1:28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U96OIEB0Ioo

Wallace Ford!

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6148-least-wanted-film-noir-s-character-actors-wallace-ford

tragic Pangborn?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4wAktIKRKk

Jimmy Conlin, the little desiccated guy in almost every Preston Sturges comedy, has a choice 90 seconds as an unapologetic liquor thief in Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder. He's arraigned immediately before Ben Gazzara. Though he's in his mid 70s he's instantly recognizable.

http://24.111.17.162/PEOPLE/CamdenPeople-JimmyConlin.htm

Another Sturges guy who needs to be here is Robert Greig, who also played Margaret Dumont’s butler Hives in Animal Crackers.

also howbout the clippings on that site? xp

Just scrolled down, wow, pretty thorough. WWI draft card and WWII one too! Had forgotten I saw a Vitaphone or two with him at the FF, probably the members brunch, I seem to recall an introduction by Bruce G.

Going to add

Hank Worden

as well, especially since I didn’t vote for him in the REAL classic Western character actors poll

Just saw him say his signature line in The Searchers in a scene in the Romanian movie The Whistlers, “I’ve been baptized, Reverend, I’ve been baptized.” Also, hadn’t remembered him being on Twin Peaks.

That site is an amazing mess.

More Sturges:

Julius Tannen

Also known for introducing the “talking picture” in Singin’ in the Rain. Discussed a little bit here: Barbara Stanwyck: An ILX Film Snobs Thread

"Cuddles" gets a TCM day on Tuesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ7957GMiiU

I'd like to watch one of the Sakall films, but

1) I've seen most of the good ones and

2) not sure i could brave In the Good Old Summertime with motion smoothing.

Herb Vigran
Jesse White

Might as well add
Herb Edelman

And what about Franklin Pangborn?? Franklin Pangborn!!

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Friday, April 29, 2005 11:18 AM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just saw Pangborn as a professional co-respondant (who claims to 1) be married and 2) working his way through college) in Unknown Blonde (Hobart, 1934). Mind you, in this film Edward Arnold also does similar duty.

John McGiver

Probably need more television-associated actors, such as
Stuart Margolin.

George Wyner!

George Furth!

I.M. Hobson

Francis L. Sullivan

John Qualen!

Robert F. Simon