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Post by bravomailer on Oct 9, 2019 2:35:43 GMT
They can be comedic or dour. One of my favorites is Franklin Pangborn.  |
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 9, 2019 2:52:48 GMT
Byron Fougler Porter Hall
Percy Helton
Donald Meek
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 3:06:37 GMT
 Bit'o'trivia Known as Johnny Fiedler during his radio days. Portayed Homer on NBC Radio's "The Aldrich Family" (1952-1953). |
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 9, 2019 3:07:17 GMT
Chinatown  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 3:19:01 GMT
A Night in Casablanca  Groucho .. a desk clerk but not meek |
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Post by marianne48 on Oct 9, 2019 3:37:12 GMT
George Furth as Charles Woodcock in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the dedicated clerk employed by E.H. Harriman of the Union Pacific Railroad who twice refused to open the safe for Butch's gang. Apparently this was a true incident--the gang really did meet up with Woodcock on two separate occasions. In real life, however, Woodcock reportedly let them take the loot the second time around.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 9, 2019 4:11:43 GMT
I was trying to come up with his name! 
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 9, 2019 7:23:34 GMT
In RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY, Fougler and Helton play the bankers who hire Joel McCrea to bring the gold down from the mining camp.
In a great sight gag, the two old fogies portray father and son!
(I can't recall which was which)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 13:40:59 GMT
In RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY, Fougler and Helton play the bankers who hire Joel McCrea to bring the gold down from the mining camp. In a great sight gag, the two old fogies portray father and son! Found the geezers but not together !  .jpg) .jpg)
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 9, 2019 19:31:57 GMT
Roland Young as Uriah Heep in Cuckor's David Copperfield (1935)  |
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Post by marshamae on Oct 9, 2019 20:39:45 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 9, 2019 21:33:49 GMT
I see that Helton was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross during World War One. That's just a notch below the Medal of Honor.
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 9, 2019 22:07:47 GMT
I see that Helton was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross during World War One. That's just a notch below the Medal of Honor. MIRACLE ON 34th STREET: And an inebriated Percy was the one that Edmund Gwenn substituted for in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade "Black -- with a little cream."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 22:33:28 GMT
 "One Hollywood stalwart whose screen incarnations more than lived up to his name was bald-domed character actor Donald Meek, forever typecast as mousy, timorous or browbeaten Casper Milquetoasts. He stood at 5 ft. 6 in. in his boots and weighed a mere 81 pounds. However..." More to read here Donald Meek, IMDb State Fail (1945) |
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 10, 2019 19:16:09 GMT
two from THE STING --
1) John Heffernan as the bank teller who gets the nose signal from Henry and immediately turns in his notice. He handles the window at the betting establishment.
2) a close second -- Harold Gould when in character of the Western Union official.
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Post by divtal on Oct 10, 2019 22:33:38 GMT
Bit'o'trivia Known as Johnny Fiedler during his radio days. Portayed Homer on NBC Radio's "The Aldrich Family" (1952-1953). Fiedler was the first one who came to my mind, too, Bat.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 10, 2019 22:40:25 GMT
divtal I was listening to an Olde Tyme Radio tape and recognized his (even as a kid) distinctive voice.
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 10, 2019 23:17:39 GMT
John Rothman played a not-so-meek but very beauocratic and rude librarian at the New York Public Library in "Sophie's Choice." After Sophie asks him for works of Emile Dickens (mistakenly for Emily Dickinson) he first tells her the worse thing any librarian (at the time) could say, "The card catalog is over there." Then he brow beats her for mispronouncing "Charles Dickens." He played another New York Public Library librarian (maybe the first guy's son) and a little meeker in "Ghostbusters." He was the recipient of Bill Murray's line, "Back off man, I'm a scientist." In Sophie's Choice  |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 10, 2019 23:51:58 GMT
This guy was a hoot on Jack Benny.
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Post by london777 on Oct 11, 2019 3:09:40 GMT
The cruelly bullied Milton (Stephen Root) has the last laugh in Office Space (1999). And how!  |
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