How about the guy that played Tolliver on Deadwood?
Yeah, now that you mention it, the HBO shows had a lot of menacing actors.
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DavidS - Dec 11, 2008 10:44:35 am PST #8970 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Fred Pete - Dec 11, 2008 10:49:46 am PST #8971 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm having a hard time thinking of American actors who go there.
Do they have to be alive? Because Laird Cregar could do menace like nobody's business -- just check out The Lodger on TCM when it comes on near Halloween. If he hadn't died at age 29, he'd have been one of the greats.
erikaj - Dec 11, 2008 10:52:50 am PST #8972 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
Omar! Um, I mean, Michael K. Williams of course. Although if I see him I yell "Omar!"
DavidS - Dec 11, 2008 12:31:48 pm PST #8973 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Do they have to be alive?
I was looking for a current list, but...
Because Laird Cregar could do menace like nobody's business
...it's always good to remember Laird's intense, weird screen presence.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 11, 2008 1:01:14 pm PST #8974 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm having a hard time thinking of American actors who go there.
Viggo Mortensen can do it well enough to make up for the lack of hundreds of other actors.
DavidS - Dec 11, 2008 1:12:56 pm PST #8975 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Viggo Mortensen can do it well enough to make up for the lack of hundreds of other actors.
That's true. I think we've talked before about his performance in The Prophecy.
Scrappy - Dec 11, 2008 1:25:57 pm PST #8976 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
mmm, Viggo. How about Larry Fishburne?
DavidS - Dec 11, 2008 1:46:15 pm PST #8977 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
mmm, Viggo. How about Larry Fishburne?
It seems within his range but I don't remember that being a big part of my favorite roles for him. I remember his charisma in King of New York and the noirish burn he had in Deep Cover.
Scrappy - Dec 11, 2008 1:57:52 pm PST #8978 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
And don't forget his scary-ass Ike Turner.
DavidS - Dec 11, 2008 2:35:24 pm PST #8979 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And don't forget his scary-ass Ike Turner.
Definitely. There's this coiled explosiveness in Fishburne, but somehow that seems like a different quality. Not so much menacing as dangerous. Like, you would know better than to fuck with him, whereas a menacing character you know they'll fuck with you anyway.