http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/45/55/22m.jpgKurtwood Smith - The dad on That '70's Show, the main bad guy in Robocop, and the sleazy religious guy in Citizen Ruth. I like his gravelly yet nasal voice and the fact that he plays badasses despite seeming really dorky to me. Scanning his imdb.com entry just now, I see that he's credited as 'choreographer' for Staying Alive, the Saturday Night Fever sequel. That seems odd.
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/75/67/22m.jpgStephen Tobolowsky - Always always always plays the nerd. Plays the "Ned? Ned RYERSON?" insurance salesman nerd in Groundhog Day and one of the teachers in Clueless. It seems like he's in about 4 or 5 movies every year, always in a supporting role. He was in debate club with Sarah's mom in high school.
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)
i just ordered a kobra kai t-shirt. im nuts.
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― JimD (JimD), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)
For my part, I've got a strange fixation with Gilbert Gottfried.
― JimD (JimD), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)
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― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)
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― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)
AND
FRANK WHALEY
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)
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― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― sgs (sgs), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)
My sister and I call her Jill Schlong. WE ARE SO FUNNY.
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)
I should put that to music
― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huck, Friday, 6 August 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)
Okay so do weird crushes on second-string sitcom actresses count? Because if so, ALISON MUNN.
― nabiscothingy, Friday, 6 August 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabiscothingy, Friday, 6 August 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)
omg Gear! I kiss you!
― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)
Not really, I just wanted to say something.
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)
This guy from Escape From New York, I don't even know his name or character because it's never mentioned in the film so it could be one of a number of people. I was rather obsessed with this funny little chap with the dodgy backcombed hair and the bad teeth, he has a great scene with Lee Van Cleef at the beginning of the film and threatens to steal the other scenes he is in.
I recently saw the movie after a long while and was surprised to realise how camp and feminine the character is and how there was a disctinct undercurrent that he was The Dook's plaything as well as right-hand man.
If someone knows this chap's real name It would make me really happy.
Totally over my head as a ten year old!
― mzui, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)
also, if I ever get a film made I'm casting NDB in a second.
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)
Looka the url: "jemhadar" HAHA TREK LIVES!xpost
― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)
Ghost Town Riders (1938) .... Tom 'Cherokee' Walton None Shall Escape (1944) .... German Motorcycle Soldier Searchers, The (1956) .... Mose Harper Forty Guns (1957) .... Marshal John Chisum "Petticoat Junction" (1963) TV Series .... Roy Turlock (1967-1968) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) .... Old Lonely Hearts Club BandBig Wednesday (1978) .... Shopping Cart"Twin Peaks" (1990) .... "The Elderly and Senile Room Service Waiter"
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)
Isn't that Michael Biehn?
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)
mmmm....Schiavelli
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)
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― sgs (sgs), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― nonthings (nonthings), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― nonthings (nonthings), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― mzui, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― mzui, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)
Also:David Foster Wallace.Jad Fair.
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)
Kay Kendall. Rowr.
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)
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― nonthings (nonthings), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)
UH-HUH
― H (Heruy), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Saturday, 7 August 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)
Also... hello? This person?
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)
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Damn, I hope this works.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 7 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)
Brad Renfro, Former Child Movie Actor, Dies at 25
By Matt Zoller Seitz
Jan. 16, 2008
Brad Renfro, the former child star who played a witness to a mob lawyer’s suicide in the 1994 legal thriller “The Client” and a suburban youth tutored in evil by an elderly Nazi war criminal in the 1998 film “Apt Pupil,” was found dead Tuesday morning in his Los Angeles home. He was 25.
Mr. Renfro’s girlfriend discovered his body, and the Los Angeles Police Department did not suspect foul play, The Los Angeles Times reported.
In recent years, Mr. Renfro was known as much for his legal troubles as for his acting career. He was charged with marijuana and cocaine possession in 1998, avoiding jail because of a plea bargain, according to The Associated Press. Mr. Renfro was an admitted heroin and methadone user who was photographed being arrested by Los Angeles police officers during a Christmas 2005 sweep of that city’s Skid Row. He was sentenced to three years’ probation for attempted possession of heroin and entered a drug rehabilitation program.
His career was short, but busy and varied. He was plucked from obscurity to play a frightened but resilient witness opposite Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in “The Client,” an adaptation of a John Grisham best seller.ImageBrad Renfro in 2005.Brad Renfro in 2005.Credit...Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images
In a 1994 profile of Mr. Renfro in The New York Times, Joel Schumacher, director of “The Client,” said he was looking for “a tough and savvy survivor, a kid with an authentic Southern accent, a kid from a trailer park, like the character in the movie.”
He found Mr. Renfro, then all of 10, through the Knoxville Police Department. He had a reputation as a troublemaker and had recently played a drug dealer in a school production of an antidrug play. The film’s casting director, Mali Finn, said she intended to let Mr. Renfro audition for 10 to 15 minutes, but ended up letting the tape run for an hour. Mr. Schumacher told The Times that when he viewed the tape, “I was struck by the maturity and sadness of his eyes,” adding: “I couldn’t believe a 10-year-old that good-looking and smart who had a difficult life could actually act on the screen. It was too good to believe.”
Over the next decade Mr. Renfro carved out a niche playing inarticulate, vulnerable, alienated youths in everything from glossy Hollywood blockbusters to hardscrabble independent dramas. His acting was naturalistic and emotionally transparent; he played humiliation and frustration with disarming and sometimes upsetting frankness.
As Todd Bowden, the title character of “Apt Pupil,” a Stephen King adaptation by the filmmaker Bryan Singer, Mr. Renfro answered the spidery malevolence of his co-star Ian McKellen with a roiling, implosive blankness. Janet Maslin wrote in The Times that Mr. Renfro “put a diabolically wholesome face on Todd’s budding viciousness.”
In the 2001 Larry Clark drama “Bully,” about bored, amoral teenagers drawn into a murder conspiracy, Mr. Renfro was affecting as Marty Puccio, a sexually confused surfer seeking revenge against the title character (Nick Stahl), his peer group’s abusive alpha-male leader.
In the profile published before “The Client,” opened, the 12-year-old actor was asked how appearing in the film would change his life. “I’ll always be Brad Renfro, born on July 25, 1982,” he said. “Nothing’s going to change that. It won’t be any different.”
― carin' (map), Friday, 3 July 2020 19:12 (five years ago)