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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 31, 2018 2:19:37 GMT
Percy Wetmore
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 31, 2018 2:33:12 GMT
Ralph in ROMANCING THE STONE / JEWEL OF THE NILE
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 31, 2018 2:36:53 GMT
Louis dePalma - TAXI Yes, it is tv BUT next to the dictionary definition of "weasel" there is a picture of Louis
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Post by marianne48 on Oct 31, 2018 2:37:43 GMT
Dan Duryea as the probably self-named "Johnny Prince" in Scarlet Street.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 31, 2018 2:42:44 GMT
THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR TOAD The weasels are hired by Mr Winkle to steal the deed to Toad Hall
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 31, 2018 2:46:20 GMT
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT ?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 31, 2018 2:53:38 GMT
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Post by london777 on Oct 31, 2018 3:13:33 GMT
Percy Helton spent most of his career whingeing, hand-wringing or attempting to ingratiate himself. Usually he was just a coward, which was pretty excusable for someone about 4'6" being bullied by the likes of Robert Ryan or Richard Boone, but sometimes he could be cunning, treacherous or malicious. (Hmmm, sounds just like Gollum).
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Post by london777 on Oct 31, 2018 3:19:30 GMT
Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) in Fargo. Surely William H Macy was the chief weasel in Fargo?
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Oct 31, 2018 3:21:53 GMT
Danny DeVito as The Penguin.
And I have to disagree with the Dwight Frye choice in Dracula.
But he certainly was a weasel in the first two Frankenstein movies.
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Post by movielover on Oct 31, 2018 4:21:38 GMT
I know he's from TV, not movies, but Newman is a weaselly guy. I'm sure Jerry would agree.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 31, 2018 4:35:17 GMT
movielover Newman and Louis dePalma … can you imagine them in a show together … out weaseling each other !
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Post by poelzig on Oct 31, 2018 7:32:10 GMT
Brits are always the best weasels. Being cowardly little backstabbing douchebags seems to come natural to brit actors.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Oct 31, 2018 9:25:24 GMT
The lady reporter who sells out Jim Carrey in The Mask.
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Post by Caesium137 on Oct 31, 2018 9:31:28 GMT
The fat guy from Jurassic Park
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Post by london777 on Dec 31, 2018 1:24:36 GMT
I watched a Brit semi-noir last night and immediately thought of this thread. The Shop at Sly Corner (1947) was Kenneth Griffith's first major role. He plays a slimy weasel who turns blackmailer. He largely played slimy weasels for the rest of his long screen career. Poelzig was kind enough to post that Brit actors are naturals to play weasels. Maybe, but I would endorse that more enthusiastically had he written "Welsh actors". I think it is something to do with the Welsh "chapel" tradition which can tend to sanctimonious verbosity. Back to the movie. Muriel Pavlov plays, as ever despite her Russian surname, the archetypal English rose. She is very lovely here but a bit bland plot-wise. Derek Farr is the stiff-upper-lip boyfriend. An uncredited Diana Dors makes her screen debut at the age of 16 and there is a cameo by Katie Johnson who, after a long career of minor parts suddenly achieved stardom and a deserved BAFTA Best Actress Award (the British "Oscar") at the age of 76 for her role in "The Ladykillers" (1955). Oscar Homolka is a let down (limp and sentimental) as the central figure, the blackmailed shop owner. A commanding performance would have turned this into a real Film Noir. Kenneth Griffith (but not from this film)
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Post by alpha128 on Dec 31, 2018 16:31:48 GMT
From movies, I immediately thought of Hart Bochner, who played Ellis in Die Hard. He also played the weaselly Gotham City Councilman Arthur Reeves in the Batman animated feature, Mask of the Phantasm. Brits are always the best weasels. Being cowardly little backstabbing douchebags seems to come natural to brit actors. And from TV, my favorite is British actor Milton Johns as the weaselly Castellan Kelner in the Doctor Who serial "The Invasion of Time".
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Post by london777 on Jan 17, 2019 2:49:14 GMT
David Paymer often plays weasels, spectacularly so in Payback (1999) dir: Brian Helgeland. A cowardly, treacherous, and spiteful pimp and drug dealer, with poor taste in jackets.
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Post by anthonyrocks on Jan 17, 2019 5:08:13 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 17, 2019 5:41:09 GMT
Jason Alexander in Pretty Woman
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