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Post by telegonus on Mar 21, 2017 5:20:13 GMT
I just saw Hugh Marlowe in a Perry Mason. First episode of the seventh season. He was nasty in it but wasn't given much to do.
Robert Middleton is an actor I admire but gave never been able to warm up to. He seems too intelligent to play a down and out type character. Something about his voice made him come across as cultured no matter how "dirty" they made him look.
How's about Willis Bouchey? I like him. His type has sort of vanished from the face of the earth, it seems.
Paul Douglas was good. Fox treated him exceptionally well for a few years there, I mean given his age and looks. He was far from the leading man type and yet he did have screen presence and was a character star for a while.
Reed Hadley was another radio guy who appeared in films, never became a name player even at the supporting level. He seemed to have done the narration for every semi-doc of the postwar era, or damn near.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 21, 2017 22:31:31 GMT
I always and still think that Elias Koteas and Christopher Meloni were/are interchangeable.
Scott Brady and Lawrence Tierney...but I think they are real life brothers.
Appearance wise, Franklin Pangborn and Bela Lugosi
Douglas Dumbrille and Cedric Hardwicke
Appearance wise, Peter Bull and John Doucette
Whit Bissell and Hurd Hatfield
Richard Bakalyan and Leo Gorcey
Sig Ruman and John Banner
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Post by telegonus on Mar 22, 2017 15:12:25 GMT
Tierney and Brady were brothers. Right.
Douglass Dumbrille was more of a general utility character actor type, but with the mustache I can see how one might mistake him for Hardwicke, though the latter was a lot shorter. As to Herdwicke I find him more like Lionel Atwill, also a Brit, with Atwill more inclined to play mad scientists and villains.
Bakalyan reminds me a little of Dick Miller. They were both sort of vaguely beanticky character guys of the same generation.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 23, 2017 4:14:28 GMT
Bakalyan reminds me a little of Dick Miller. They were both sort of vaguely beanticky character guys of the same generation.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 23, 2017 4:31:45 GMT
telegonusFor me, Paul Douglas was particularly outstanding as the cop in Fourteen Hours (1951) and in Executive Suite (1954). I liked to see him in just about anything though. btw... what is "Beanticky" ? All I can figure is a typo for beatnicky but that doesn't really describe those guys(especially with RK's gangster image. .
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 23, 2017 4:44:52 GMT
SetoRE: John Gsvin or Stephen Boyd. Gotta check the depth of that cleft in the chin. Boyd's is deeper by about an inch. That's a great set of images you posted.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 23, 2017 5:20:20 GMT
telegonus btw... what is "Beanticky" ? All I can figure is a typo for beatnicky but that doesn't really describe those guys(especially with RK's gangster image. . It was obviously a typo for beatnicky. I think what he meant is that Bakalyan and Miller were both sort of underground characters, not artsy bohemians but more outlaw bohemians. Speaking for myself now, I get that vibe far more from Bakalyan. Miller just seems like a another guy to me. But there was something disconcerting about Bakalyan no matter what role he played.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 23, 2017 5:38:11 GMT
Richard Kimble I am so out of it slangwise, I thought that "beanticky" might actually be some slang term from Australia or Canada or some other furrin' country. I always liked Bakalyan but am not at all familiar with Miller. Looking at his filmography though, I did see him as "the garbageman" in "The 'Burbs".
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 23, 2017 6:23:22 GMT
Richard Kimble I am so out of it slangwise, I thought that "beanticky" might actually be some slang term from Australia or Canada or some other furrin' country. I have to admit I'm not exactly Henry The Hip myself Well speak of the devil: here's Dick Miller as a bohemian, or at least trying to be one:
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Post by telegonus on Mar 23, 2017 7:24:19 GMT
telegonus For me, Paul Douglas was particularly outstanding as the cop in Fourteen Hours (1951) and in Executive Suite (1954). I liked to see him in just about anything though. btw... what is "Beanticky" ? All I can figure is a typo for beatnicky but that doesn't really describe those guys(especially with RK's gangster image. . Agreed on Paul Douglas in those two films. Mr. Douglas was exceptional as the man Barbara Stanwyck marries in the Fritz Lang directed Clash By Night, well worth watching for many reasons, one of which being that it's perhaps the only film ever made in which a movie projectionist is nearly strangled to death, at work, by the man he cuckolded as he is changing the reels of a film he is showing in the theater. Yes, beanticky was a typo. Odd that spellcheck didn't pick up on that as so far as I know beantick isn't a word. The word intended was indeed beatnick, or rather my made-up adjective derived from it.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 23, 2017 8:50:34 GMT
Agreed on Paul Douglas in those two films. Mr. Douglas was exceptional as the man Barbara Stanwyck marries in the Fritz Lang directed Clash By Night, well worth watching for many reasons, one of which being that it's perhaps the only film ever made in which a movie projectionist is nearly strangled to death, at work, by the man he cuckolded as he is changing the reels of a film he is showing in the theater. While it doesn't fit all your criteria, Robert Culp murdered projectionist Chuck McCann in his booth in a Columbo episode. The reel-changing method actually turns out to be an important clue.
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Post by telegonus on Apr 1, 2017 9:34:22 GMT
But for the grace of God Richard Lundigan might have had Richard Denning's career. They were similar types, with Lundigan more easygoing and charming, Denning, more macho and tightly wound, but they weren't a million miles apart as types.
I often found Skip Homeier and Keith Andres difficult to tell apart, though the latter was more often cast as a stalwart hero type, the former as punks.
In the Forties, at Fox, John Payne and George Montgomery might have traded parts, though Payne was a singer, Montgomery more of a cowboy star. As the years went by their careers came to look somewhat similar except that Payne picked far better projects and directors.
Robert Young, Lew Ayres, Robert Sterling and Donald Woods might have played the same parts; and with the first three at MGM for a few years togeher I imagine they probably were up for the same roles. Young, however, had paid his dues and then some, and by 1940 or thereabouts he had achieved something as near to A list status as he'd get in Hollyood,--sort of A- but not B--while the others really weren't serious competition for him.
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