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Post by marshamae on Apr 15, 2017 2:37:33 GMT
Im Binge-watching Downton abbey andthinking what a thankless task it is to be in a scene with Maggie Smith. Even incadescent actors like Shirley MacLaine have trouble holding their edge of the conversation. Smith never steps out of character or unbalances the action, but she can do things with her eyebrows that other actors need a cast of thousands to express.
Any other inveterate scene stealers that give their colleagues bad dreams the night before a shoot?
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Post by petrolino on Apr 15, 2017 3:59:39 GMT
Im Binge-watching Downton abbey andthinking what a thankless task it is to be in a scene with Maggie Smith. Even incadescent actors like Shirley MacLaine have trouble holding their edge of the conversation. Smith never steps out of character or unbalances the action, but she can do things with her eyebrows that other actors need a cast of thousands to express. Any other inveterate scene stealers that give their colleagues bad dreams the night before a shoot? C.C.H. Pounder dominates the screen every tine I've ever seen her; she's awesome. |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 15, 2017 4:05:01 GMT
Would Franklin Pangborn match this question?
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 15, 2017 6:39:09 GMT
Skippy the Wire Haired Terrier... AKA Asta (The Thin Man)... Mr Smith (The Awful Truth)... George (Bringing Up Baby), always stole the scene, regardless of the main stars... 
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Post by hi224 on Apr 15, 2017 7:02:04 GMT
Agree.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 15, 2017 11:07:52 GMT
Asta, I totally agree, reminds me of the dog (that I sadly forgot the name of) on the Frasier TV-series.
In a more human form, love him or hate him, Jimmy Durante in The Man who Came to Dinner, he steals every scene he's in, even from personalities like Bette Davis and Monty Wooley.
Joyce Grenfell with her Lovely Ducks scene in Hitchcocks Stage Fright.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Apr 15, 2017 21:36:36 GMT
Jonesy in Alien. That moggy stole every scene he was in.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 15, 2017 21:53:41 GMT
teleadm Frasier's Dog was played by Moose. He even has his own filmography page. IF I can get it to link : Moose
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 16, 2017 15:46:29 GMT
WC Fields
Margaret Dumont
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 17, 2017 4:02:53 GMT
John Goodman was the most consistently proficient actor throughout every season of Roseanne, and since then, he's become one of those character actors whom I always enjoy seeing turn up in a film. No matter how mediocre the film (and there have been several of those), I always think, "Well, at least it had John Goodman in it, so it had one good quality."
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Post by hi224 on Apr 17, 2017 15:13:46 GMT
Eli wallach could be.
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Post by petrolino on Apr 22, 2017 22:57:14 GMT
Ex-boxer Dick Miller has long been considered a scene stealer by Roger Corman and his associates, an idea that lent itself well to the title of the recent documentary 'That Guy Dick Miller' (2014), the joke being that you may not know his name but he'll still command your attention. Miller's popped up as several characters named Walter Paisley over the years, a reference to a rare lead role he played in Corman's art school satire 'A Bucket Of Blood' (1959) which ruthlessly sent up beatnik culture. He's a great guy, born on Christmas Day, 88 years old now but still making movies.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 4:58:53 GMT
Anthony Hopkins owns every scene he's in. If I were an actor in a scene with him I'd feel totally intimidated.
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Post by bess1971s on Apr 23, 2017 19:20:15 GMT
Most character actors are scene stealers with seemingly no effort at all. Whenever the likes of Eve Arden or Thelma Ritter are on screen, the stars mean nothing to me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 19:29:16 GMT
Most character actors are scene stealers with seemingly no effort at all. Whenever the likes of Eve Arden or Thelma Ritter are on screen, the stars mean nothing to me. No, most character actors are not scene stealers but many are. Also, lead actors will sometimes be scene stealers. |
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Post by neurosturgeon on Apr 23, 2017 22:54:59 GMT
Character actor S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall was considered such a scene stealer that James Cagney refused to work with him again after their scene together in "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
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Post by Salzmank on Apr 23, 2017 23:16:24 GMT
Character actor S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall was considered such a scene stealer that James Cagney refused to work with him again after their scene together in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." I can understand Jimmy Cagney's frustration, for better or worse. Sakall--whom I'll always see as "Felix" from Christmas in Connecticut despite his arguably more important role in Casablanca--is one of those actors whom I would watch reading the phonebook, as the cliche goes! |
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Post by sostie on Apr 25, 2018 23:09:28 GMT
Margaret Rutherford
Gary Oldman
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 26, 2018 0:06:23 GMT
Another notorious scene stealer -- Strother Martin.
Jimmy Stewart had already worked with him in a couple of previous films before they made FOOLS PARADE in 1971, so Stewart was onto his tricks.
In one climactic scene, Strother came on the set carrying a pad, a pencil, and a ball of string.
Jimmy took director Andrew McLaglen aside and told him:
" 'Ol Strother over there can have that pad, and he can keep the pencil -- but there ain't no way in hell that he's gonna play with that ball of string in this scene!"
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Post by sostie on Apr 26, 2018 0:24:55 GMT
Spike Milligan
Peter Cook
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