David Warner
Tovah Feldshuh
Beth Grant (she played the stressed-out woman who tried to leave the bus in Speed and Jim Morris's mom in The Rookie)
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Kathy A - Dec 01, 2006 7:16:54 am PST #6084 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Sue - Dec 01, 2006 7:17:41 am PST #6085 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I used to think it was an actor who always played a specific type of character, but then many people called "character actors" have had diverse roles.
I would call a character actor someone who plays secondary, but important roles. Often they're actors who disappear into roles, rather than call attention to themselves as an actor. They're usually not conventionally handsome, but they bring flavour to a role.
I think that wikipedia entry is fucked. It's got a modern idea of character actors confused into the idea of someone who plays a character type all their life, which you'd find more in commedia delle arte, or maybe older studio or repertory systems.
Also, it calls a lot of people character actors who've mostly been leading men: Tom Hanks, Laurence Olivier (?!?!) , Kevin Spacey, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman. I think Jack Nicholson is the antithesis of a character actor. He's always Jack, doing his thing.
Kathy A - Dec 01, 2006 7:22:33 am PST #6086 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I was just looking at Beth Grant's IMDB entry, and I completely missed the fact that she had been on Angel--in "Rm w/a Vu," she played Phantom Dennis's mom!
beekaytee - Dec 01, 2006 7:24:19 am PST #6087 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Good ones Kathy!
I adore Tovah Feldshuh.
Kathy A - Dec 01, 2006 7:26:25 am PST #6088 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
She's really one of my favorite actresses--I love her as Danielle Melnick on L&O.
Aims - Dec 01, 2006 7:26:49 am PST #6089 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ralph Bellamy
Hector Elizondo
beekaytee - Dec 01, 2006 7:27:37 am PST #6090 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
She's in A Walk on the Moon with Viggo, Liev and Diane Lane. Talk about characters! Love it.
Aims - Dec 01, 2006 7:29:32 am PST #6091 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Joan Blondell is awesome. Her favorite role of mine is Sissy in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".
Kathy A - Dec 01, 2006 7:30:14 am PST #6092 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Someone else has seen A Walk on the Moon--yay! That's one of my favorite "you must see this!" movies, a really great character(s) study film for everyone involved.
Kathy A - Dec 01, 2006 7:32:25 am PST #6093 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Another one of my fave character actors--Stephen Root!