Before American Psycho I would have picked Christian Bale, but he's moved firmly into leading man territory in recent years.
Hell, he's the lead in Empire of the Sun.
Ileanna Douglas
She's so great in Action.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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DavidS - Nov 30, 2006 6:48:39 pm PST #6057 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Nov 30, 2006 6:49:10 pm PST #6058 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
OK... I just thought if a person is not a Name, but has maybe been on L&O and H:LOTS and Oz that counted...does it not? But Lili was everybody's movie buddy for a while, I know she counts. Mercedes Ruehl, then(Whom I also think is awesome and doesn't work enough)
DavidS - Nov 30, 2006 7:06:25 pm PST #6059 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Mercedes Ruehl, then
Good call, and well beloved by the crew. In her breakthrough role on Married to the Mob the crew made up "Ruehl Rules" t-shirts. Incidentally, she's the lady cop who handcuffs James Remar to the bench in The Warriors.
DavidS - Nov 30, 2006 7:17:01 pm PST #6060 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I once wrote about Alien as being a character actor all-star team: Yaphet Kotto (there's your H:LotS bona fides), Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Veronica Cartwright (in the history of cinema, nobody freaks out like Veronica Cartwright).
P.M. Marc - Nov 30, 2006 7:29:32 pm PST #6061 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
David Straithran. Lili Taylor. Morgan Freeman.
Though MF as CA is debatable, in which case, replace him with F. Murray Abraham.
Scrappy - Nov 30, 2006 7:53:01 pm PST #6062 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
DavidS - Nov 30, 2006 8:02:31 pm PST #6063 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Here's Cuddles. He played the bartender in Casablanca, among other things.
Gotcha. He was in a ton of Warner Bros. movies in the 40s.
David Straithran.
Molly Dodd!
Lili Taylor.
Dogfight! (Okay, technically a lead there, but she was so good.)
Morgan Freeman.
Street Life!
DavidS - Nov 30, 2006 8:13:28 pm PST #6064 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Speaking of movies with great casts I've got King of New York on the TiVo right now. Talk about your serious pulp fictions. Plus, Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne (absolutely badass), David Caruso (one of his best movie roles, though his brief stint on TV as a NYC cop was and always will be his best role), Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi...
I wonder if Walken's wife cast that movie. She's the top casting agent for the East Coast and does all the HBO series shot out there.
Aims - Nov 30, 2006 9:03:48 pm PST #6065 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Kathy Bates
Carol Burnett
Joan Cusack
Frankenbuddha - Dec 01, 2006 3:48:12 am PST #6066 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Veronica Cartwright (in the history of cinema, nobody freaks out like Veronica Cartwright).
Hitchcock trained her well.
Character actor, character actors.
Dick Miller
Timothy Carey
Brad Dourif
William Sanderson
Charles Napier