Title taken from Luc Sante and Melissa Pierson's collection of character-actor essays, and meant to compliment this thread:
'Character Actors' you can't bear to watch anymore
I'll start with my Al Nalbandian post from the other thread. In American Graffiti, he's an employee at the arcade where the Pharaohs steal money from the machines while Richard Dreyfuss runs interference out front: "You can have all the fun you want--this place is for fun"; he turns up for a few seconds in The Conversation as one of the tech salesman at the convention.
He has a very unusual, striking presence.
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― clemenza, Saturday, 9 March 2019 17:33 (six years ago)
Faces: a thread for supporting movie/tv actors whose mugs most of you would recognize, but whose names you'd never know.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:04 (six years ago)
We need a pro-character actors thread.― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, March 9, 2019 12:11 PM (five hours ago)
It's cryptosicko's fault--it's cryptosicko's fault!
Kidding. I guess I was fixated on searching "character" instead of "supporting."
― clemenza, Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:12 (six years ago)
Eh, either lock/delete thread or make this one in praise of (character) actors whose mugs most of us would recognize but whose names we do know. Someone like Charles Durning, who doesn't have his own thread (I just checked to be sure) but who I assume everyone knows, belongs here.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:57 (six years ago)
Everybody knows Al Nalbandian--except Mrs. Al Nalbandian.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 March 2019 00:01 (six years ago)
*ahem*Character Actor Roll Call
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 March 2019 00:34 (six years ago)
I think this should be retitled and turned into a "Hey Dummy, You Missed My Thread" thread.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 March 2019 01:57 (six years ago)
Think the real problem is that these character actor threads never quite catch on so people keep starting new ones.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 March 2019 02:05 (six years ago)