Iconic film images featuring actors/actresses not "household names"

Sue Lyon was pretty well known back in the 60s.

Alfonso Bedoyo never quite made it.

One of the scenes restored to King Kong (1933) in the early '70s. Kong grabs a sleeping woman from a high rise apartment. Kong then drops her when he sees it was not Ann Darrow. When I saw this restored version in a theater, the audience booed the scene. Later in '33, the actress playing the unfortunate woman - billed as Sandra Shaw - married Gary Cooper.

Albert Popwell

While it's true Mantell never became a household name, he may be better known to classic film viewers than they realize.

Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Marty:


As the obnoxious traveling salesman who says, "Get yourselves guns and wipe them off the face of the Earth" in The Birds:



He made dozens of TV appearances as well on everything from Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone to All In the Family and Barney Miller, and his final big screen role was a reprise of Walsh, his Chinatown character, in the sequel The Two Jakes.   

Un Chien Andalou , An Andalusian Dog  (1929) Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short film the first from Spanish director Luis Buñuel who collaborated with artist Salvador Dalí...