Obscure Character Actors

[hemibee]

Well it's not really a game per say but can be interesting or maybe educational.

On another forum Don and I frequent they had a little game/thread or what ever you want to call it and it was pretty interesting. The thread was revived over there and I started looking at it again and got to thinking this would be even more interesting on an international level instead of just on our regional forum. With the cold and bad weather moving into some area it might help pass the time for those effected and can't get out to grab photos for the Scavenger Hunt or Monthly Photo Contest.

So here's how it works. . . Copied from our regional forum

Have you ever noticed how many character actors whom you repeatedly see in movies, but maybe never know the names of? Let's see how many obscure character actors we can pay homage to with this thread. Post a pic with the name. I'll start:

Dennis Farina​

 

[hemibee]

Burton Gilliam

 

[DaveM]

Chief Dan George​

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He didn’t make many films, but god-damn if he wasn’t one of the most memorable character actors of all time because of it.​

Where you know him from:​

Little Big Man, as Old Lodge Skins​

The Outlaw Josey Wales as Lone Watie​

Harry and Tonto, as Sam Two Feathers​

He did a couple of lesser known things, but I’ve yet to see if they’re as good as this other stuff. I’d imagine so, but those three are the real three. Man, he’s so awesome.
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Chief Dan George
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[otherwise]

Ernie Dingo, probably best known from Crocodile Dundee but lots of Australian TV work.

 

[DaveB]

Eli Wallach made portrayal of down and out Latino scumbags in to an art form.


The greatest irony is that the actor himself is erudite and classy.

 

[DaveM]

Charles Gray​

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Where you know him from:​

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as The Criminologist​

You Only Live Twice, as Dikko Henderson​

Diamonds are Forever, as Ernst Stavro Blofeld​

Also look for him in: The Beast Must Die, as Arthur Bennington (This movie is ****ing incredible. I watch this at least once every few months, it’s that awesome.), The Seven Per-Cent Solution, as Mycroft Holmes, Shock Treatment, as Judge Oliver Wright.
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[CarlS]

Charles Napier​

 

[DaveM]

Graham Greene​

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Where you know him from:​

Dances with Wolves, as Kicking Bird​

Die Hard With a Vengeance, as Joe Lambert​

The Green Mile, as Arlen Bitterbuck​

Also look for him in: Maverick, as Joseph, Transamerica, as Calvin, New Moon, as Harry Clearwater , Casino Jack, as Bernie Sprague.
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[Sketchy Snr]

Charles Napier​

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The Blues Brothers

 

[DaveB]

Wes Studi is the ultimate Red Indian warrior, though he has played many other roles too.

 

[otherwise]

Wes Studi is the ultimate Red Indian warrior

Sorry incorrect, Carl has that honorable title.

 

[DaveB]

Last of the Mohicans,

starring-

CarlS.

Yeah, it has a certain ring to it!

Danny Trejo, Latino hard man par excellence:

 

[CarlS]

Sorry incorrect, Carl has that honorable title.

 

[DaveM]

Ah yes I remember him

 

[DaveM]

Dennis Haysbert​

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Where you know him from:​

Take your pick.​

Major League, Major League II & Major League: Back to the Minors, as Pedro Cerrano​

24, as David Palmer​

Those Allstate commercials​

Also look for him in: Love Field, as Paul Cater, Heat, as Donald Breedan, Waiting to Exhale, as Kenneth Dawkins, Absolute Power, as Tim Collin, The Thirteenth Floor (this was a really awesome movie when I was 11), as Detective Larry McBain, Random Hearts, as Detective George Beaufort, Far From Heaven, as Raymond Deagan, Jarhead, as Major Lincoln, Breach, as Dean Plesac, Kung Fu Panda 2, as Master Ox.
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[Ksquared]

Woody Strode

 

[hemibee]

Hey Kerry, good to see you back.


Posting with Tapatalk while riding my Tiger 955i at 15 over the speed limit.

 

[keystiger]

Gunter Meisner

 

[DaveM]

Brion James​

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Where you know him from:​

The Fifth Element, as General Munro​

Blade Runner, as Leon Kowalski​

48 Hrs. & Another 48 Hrs., as Ben Kehoe​

Also look for him in: Silverado, as Hobart, The Player, as Joel Levinson, Striking Distance, as Det. Eddie Eiler, Radioland Murders, as Bernie King.
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[CarlS]

No list of character actors would be complete without -

Gabby Hayes



George Francis "Gabby" Hayes (May 7, 1885 – February 9, 1969) was an actor in radio, film, and television, always playing the comical sidekick to heroes of the Westerns played by Randolph Scott, Roy Rogers, and John Wayne. He was cast in recurring roles for a number of westerns, appearing as Windy Halliday (1936-1939) and as Gabby Whitaker (1939-1946). His acting career, though brief [21 years], won't soon be forgotten. Tribute was posthumously paid to him by Claude Ennis Starrett, in the hilarious Mel Brooks western spoof Blazing Saddles (1974), as a character named Gabby Johnson in full regalia and character as a tribute to the man himself, all the way down to his trademark mannerisms and his authentic frontier gibberish.