There was a poll up for directors' final films recently--can't find one for performers. Thread title in honour of my favourite final song from a band (sort of...clarification not important here).
― clemenza, Monday, 11 November 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
Idea inspired by Richard Burton, whose birthday it would have been yesterday. Two nominations: Burton in 1984 (he made a TV mini-series afterwards, but that doesn't count) and Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story. Should be a lead role, or an important supporting one like Burton's.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 November 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
I think there's a lot of good ones. First to come to mind is Peter Finch in "Network".
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
I think that would overwhelmingly come to mind first.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 November 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
Owen Hart
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
Clark Gable in The Misfits. It's been a couple of years since I saw it--I remember him being pretty good for most of the film, with one really hammy drunk scene.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 November 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
Was also Monroe's last film, she is excellent in it as well.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
Yes--forgot that the next one was never finished.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 November 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
I like Lillian Gish in The Whales of August a lot.
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
I was going to say Divine in Hairspray, but imdb has his last role as something called Out of the Dark that I've never seen.
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
Actually there are a few of these where I was mistaken as to what the last performance was, Peter Sellers was apparently The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu rather than Being There (is it Being There he got a posthumous oscar nomination for?)
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
Yes. Even under the circumstances, I imagine Hoffman (the winner) was favored for Kramer vs. Kramer.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 November 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
Ralph Richardson in Greystoke?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be
― Number None, Monday, 11 November 2013 14:17 (ten years ago) link
^seconded
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond, for which he won Best Actor Oscar. (Have any other actors won Best Actor for their last lead role?)
Was going to add Katharine Hepburn but wiki says she had one more lead role in Grace Quigley.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
She also stuck around long enough to drop an F-bomb in Warren Beatty's An Affair to Remember remake.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
Fonda in OGP < Spencer Tracy in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Sellers got no posthumous Oscar nominations, he died a few months after losing for Being There.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
Fonda in that syrupy swill can't hold a candle to John Wayne in The Shootist either.
Can't think of many foreign actors cuz we don't like them much, right? Ingrid Bergman's was Autumn Sonata.
more from Hollywood:
http://www.classicfilmguide.com/index4ca4.html
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Which reminds me: Victor Sjöström, Wild Strawberries
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
Feel like saying Roy Kinnear in The Three Musketeers... oh go on, I'll say it, not that i remember anything about the film or the performance tbh
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
Ingrid Bergman wasn't very good in Autumn Sonata tbh. Neither was Massimo Troisi in Il Postino.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
(Have any other actors won Best Actor for their last lead role?)
ILX has been admirably avoiding the Heath-Ledger-shaped elephant in the room but someone must
― imago, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
James Stewart in an American tale: fievel goes west
― you can get fuckstab anywhere in london (wins), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
al mulock
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
Can't think of many foreign actors cuz we don't like them much, right?
must you be a dick?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
bruce lee, enter the dragon
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
While we're on the subject, how likely is Gandolfini to at least get a nomination for that new Holofcener film?
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
This would be my nomination:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGH-Y_DvI8
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
^^^ good choice
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
Ingrid Bergman was in Golda, no?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
Or else everyone knows his last film was The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and is rightly avoiding mentioning it.
― ailsa, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
was he in a starring role? ach fine
― imago, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Golda was a TV miniseries.
Gandolfini has another film in the can.
Must you all be wrong?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
well, yeah, but clem didn't distinguish film from teevee.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
Burton in 1984 (he made a TV mini-series afterwards, but that doesn't count)
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
As wrong as disparaging people for not liking foreign actors when the first post is about Richard Burton?
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
where exactly do you think wales is
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
OK actors who acted in sumtin besides English, smart guy
Anna Magnani played herself in Fellini's Roma, but i don't remember that
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
Charles Laughton, Advise and Consent
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
Special case, but James Dean in Giant. A different kind of special case: Cagney, who hadn't made a film in 13 years, was the best reason to see Ragtime, as I recall. Still remember a great line of his: "That's a fine piece of thinkin', Willie."
― clemenza, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
Saw one of these recently but I can't recall - oh wait - left field vote for Edward G. Robinson in Soylent Green.
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Also, I love Bogart in The Harder They Come. That'd be up there with Burton and Farnsworth for me. Having a harder time thinking of actresses.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
http://d1fgn7wex1bhjn.cloudfront.net/assets/tarantulaV2/embedded_images/1351845109_5_orson_welles.jpg
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
i think Welles' last onscreen appearance was in a Henry Jaglom film that came out 10 years after he died.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
Was Dead Man Mitchum's last role?
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Transformers the Movie was the last (voice) role for Scatman Crothers as well, according to imdb.
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Dead Man was same year as 2 other barely released RM films.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
Love-it-or-hate-it: Jason Robards in Magnolia.
Big Role, prominent film, would need to see it again: William Holden in S.O.B..
Haven't seen: Paul Newman in Road to Perdition (did some TV stuff, a documentary, and a couple of animated films afterwards).
Of course: John Cazale in The Deer Hunter.
Garbo missed by one film with Ninotchka--haven't seen the Cukor she finished with.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
No love for William Hickey as the deceased patriarch in Mousehunt.
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
?
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
that Cukor-Garbo film is....fascinating.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
Last Cukor film I saw was his salvage job of Justine which was actually pretty good, in its own way.
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:41 (ten years ago) link
I was going to say Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film, but it seems his last film was this :
Keaton portrays the janitor at a newspaper who accidentally intercepts a call from the editor, ordering him to do a story about safety practices at a massive construction site. He sneaks onto the construction site and finds a list of 16 safety rules posted on a wall. He takes the list and attempts to confront workers when he sees them acting in an unsafe manner, often causing more accidents than he prevents. Keaton is silent throughout the film as he recreates several routines from his youth. Most notable was his recreation of a gag from his 1918 film The Bell Boy in which he mops the floor using only the tip of the mop, little by little while sitting on the floor.
which all seems a bit sad really.
― Addison Doug (Matt #2), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:42 (ten years ago) link
You should never, ever look at the Twilight Zone episode he did.
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
In which through the magic of time travel he ends up in that past in a quota quickie silent film facing off against the man who sold the tribbles, or someone and something like that.
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:48 (ten years ago) link
Wish Gene Hackman would've ended on The Royal Tennenbaums (three more, supposedly retired now)--that would've joined Wayne in The Shootist as the most perfect summation of a long career ever.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
This thread got me wondering what Rodney Dangerfield's final film was, and imdb directed to this (am I the only person who wasn't familiar with it?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYuYmKpjfwQ
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 01:14 (ten years ago) link
Also featuring Frank Gorshin playing George Burns.
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 01:15 (ten years ago) link
Richard Harris in the first two Harry Potter movies
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
oddly enough i've realized james stewart's final role was also the first thing i ever saw him in: sheriff wylie burp in 1991's "an american tail 2: fievel goes west."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 05:24 (ten years ago) link