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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 9, 2020 1:11:59 GMT
Performers you have seen somewhere, on tv or film, seemingly for decades, who may not have had any big supporting parts but they usually could get a lot of mileage out of a bit part, or had a way of delivering a line that stood out without much effort.
Thayer David -
He's been in Dark Shadows, an albino government agent in The Eiger Sanction, and even a nemesis for Spider-man in the 70s tv show. If you search his name on IMDB, ROCKY is what comes up. How classic was his smooth hypnotic uttering of the lines:
"Rocky, do you believe that America is the land of opportunity? Apollo Creed does. He's going to prove it to the whole world by giving an unknown a shot at the title and that unknown is you. He picked you, Rocky."
Severn Darden -
another one with a soothing voice that worked well for sinister parts. In CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES he gets much value out of: "there are no chimpanzees in Borneo."
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES comes up first on IMDB.
Paul Muller -
European-based actor (retired since the 2000s, 96 years old), he's been active since 1948! He's credited in EL CID and Barabbas but I don't remember him (see? don't get much attention).
THE ARENA 1974 comes up in his name search. He was probably dubbed by someone else a fair bit.
James Hong -
Another one with an enormous credits list. He helped build COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT and the replicants in BLADERUNNER "I make your eyes!" Since he is still working today I guess he is getting some appreciation yet! He was mentioned as the logical choice for the mentor in DR STRANGE which ultimately went to Asian actor extraordinaire Tilda Swinton. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA shows up in his name search.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 9, 2020 3:45:32 GMT
Thayer David -  Severn Darden -  Paul Muller -  James Hong -  I looked 'em up ... so while I was at it, here they are!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 9, 2020 3:56:07 GMT
Ned Glass  Leopold W. Gideon in CHARADE
Until the mid-1950's, he was seen primarily in tiny supporting roles as clerks, reporters, bank tellers and small-time managers. TV afforded him the opportunity to fully develop his screen persona: that of the balding, weedy, perpetually nervy conman or weasely stooge.
Shop Keeper 'Doc'in WEST SIDE STORY 
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 9, 2020 4:03:24 GMT
Ned Glass in Charade  Bridget Loves Bernie (TV series). “You were expecting, maybe, Burt Reynolds.”  |
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Post by telegonus on Apr 9, 2020 8:26:04 GMT
Performers you have seen somewhere, on tv or film, seemingly for decades, who may not have had any big supporting parts but they usually could get a lot of mileage out of a bit part, or had a way of delivering a line that stood out without much effort.
Thayer David -
He's been in Dark Shadows, an albino government agent in The Eiger Sanction, and even a nemesis for Spider-man in the 70s tv show. If you search his name on IMDB, ROCKY is what comes up. How classic was his smooth hypnotic uttering of the lines:
"Rocky, do you believe that America is the land of opportunity? Apollo Creed does. He's going to prove it to the whole world by giving an unknown a shot at the title and that unknown is you. He picked you, Rocky."
Severn Darden -
another one with a soothing voice that worked well for sinister parts. In CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES he gets much value out of: "there are no chimpanzees in Borneo."
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES comes up first on IMDB.
Paul Muller -
European-based actor (retired since the 2000s, 96 years old), he's been active since 1948! He's credited in EL CID and Barabbas but I don't remember him (see? don't get much attention).
THE ARENA 1974 comes up in his name search. He was probably dubbed by someone else a fair bit.
James Hong -
Another one with an enormous credits list. He helped build COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT and the replicants in BLADERUNNER "I make your eyes!" Since he is still working today I guess he is getting some appreciation yet! He was mentioned as the logical choice for the mentor in DR STRANGE which ultimately went to Asian actor extraordinaire Tilda Swinton. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA shows up in his name search.
Some wonderful players here. I wish that Severn Darden had had a better run in films when times were or ought to have been hot for an actor with his distinct talents. More: James Hong. Ever the gentleman. Smooth as silk. He seldom, Chinese-American though he was, played to type.
Others: George Mitchell, primarily, but not exclusively, a rustic type, he played many a country doctor, lawyer or storekeeper.
Collin Wilcox (often with her husband's name added to her own, whether Horne pr Paxton). She also tended to play rural characters, was far more versatile than that, however. Another fine, neglected actress who did a tad better: Lois Nettleton.
I guess we'll never know WTF happened to Barry Atwater. Aside from (apparently) suffering from acromegaly later in life he seemed to have failed
to achieve his potential and, needless to say, name recognition as a talented and versatile player.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 9, 2020 9:14:09 GMT
Lois Nettleton.
Ha! I actually thought of her when I made the post, although she did get at least one starring role (WOMEN IN CHAINS).
I sought out THE BAMBOO SAUCER because of it (which coincidentally, also has James Hong).
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 9, 2020 9:54:09 GMT
Interesting thread with lots of possibilities, Prime -- thanks for creating it.
Ned Glass was a good selection, Bat -- he could always make a scene just that much better.
I recall him as 'Popcorn,' the self-styled police informant ("I got a phone staked out") who comes to a bad end in EXPERIMENT IN TERROR.
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Among my favorite Ned Glass roles -- as the movie studio wardrobe guy demonstrating the ridiculous Cat Men costumes to an unenthusiastic Kirk Douglas and Barry Sullivan in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL ("Shoulder pads -- straighten 'er right out").
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6DUQi6ryEE
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He also appears in the opening scene of JULIUS CAESAR.
His movie career pretty much goes on hold for the remainder of the decade -- due to being blacklisted.
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Ned made a nice comeback in NORTH BY NORTHWEST as the Grand Central Station ticket seller who suspiciously asks Cary Grant about his wearing dark sunglasses indoors:
"Something wrong with your eyes?"
"Yes -- they're sensitive to questions!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wV2N_binyo
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Post by teleadm on Apr 9, 2020 18:23:20 GMT
Jerome Cowan (1897–1972)
 Acted in 222 movies and television productions between 1936 and 1971, though he actually played a lead in Crime by Night 1944 co-starring with Jane Wyman, as a private detective who solves a case. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 9, 2020 20:21:35 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 9, 2020 20:46:33 GMT
Dub TaylorHe was cast in his first film, You Can't Take It with You (1938), because he knew how to play the xylophone, which was a requirement for the character.  144 Feature films / 115 TV appearance - sometimes smiling -- sometimes not !   Once explained that, as a boy, he had been called "W" as a nickname for his first name Walter. That was later shortened to just "Dub."
This is his son ~ Buck Taylor 
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 9, 2020 21:01:41 GMT
Denver Pyle is a good one. Here is p’haps his most well known appearance:  Next, a character actor that, in my much younger days before home video, I would sometimes confuse with Denver Pyle and vice versa. Here is John Dehner. Center as the intelligent member of Broderick Crawford’s outlaw gang in “The Fastest Gun Alive” (1956)  As Pat Garrett in “The Left Handed Gun” (1958)  Supporting Audie Murphy in “Cast A Long Shadow” (1959)  With Gary Cooper in “Man Of The West”   |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 9, 2020 21:24:46 GMT
mikef6 Dehner was about to be my next entry …  Here he is looking dapper on Maverick 
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Post by cynthiagreen on Apr 9, 2020 21:28:46 GMT
Jerome Cowan (1897–1972)
Acted in 222 movies and television productions between 1936 and 1971, though he actually played a lead in Crime by Night 1944 co-starring with Jane Wyman, as a private detective who solves a case. CRIME BY NIGHT - is fun - a road company THIN MAN but enjoyable - as well as Cowan's leading role opposite Wyman you also get young Eleanor Parker as a mystery woman ok.ru/video/1681055353488CRIME BY NIGHT STARRING JEROME COWAN!!!!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 10, 2020 0:24:47 GMT
Mort Mills TV (x106) .. often a villain  A regular in a series 1957-59 Man Without a Gun as Marshal Frank Tallman  Psycho 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 10, 2020 4:08:42 GMT
Michael Pate
Having first noticed him playing Vittorio in HONDO  and MANY subsequent portrayals of Native American chiefs, it came as a bit of a surprise to learn that he was born in Drummoyne, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, and got his career start as an interviewer on the government's radio station.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 10, 2020 6:55:53 GMT
Allen Jenkins (1900–1974)
 He acted in 158 movies and television productions between 1931 and 1974. With the advent of talking pictures, he made a career out of playing comic henchmen, stooges, policemen, taxi drivers, and other 'tough guys' in numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s, especially for Warner Bros. Allen Jenkins was labeled the "greatest scene-stealer of the 1930s" by The New York Times. Jenkins later voiced the character of Officer Charlie Dibble on the Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon Top Cat 1961–1962.   Jenkins publicized his own alcoholism and was the first actor to speak in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate about it. 
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 10, 2020 8:48:24 GMT
I noticed in COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT James Hong doesn't get a credit until the end of the film.
He doesn't say much in the film but he has the most important dialogue near the end when he reveals that Colossus wants to build a structure in Crete as well as new machines. This is the moment when Forbin realizes Colossus has gone way beyond his expectations for rebelliousness.
In HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS, Thayer David has a similar kind of profound dialogue moment when he learns Grayson Hall is in love with a vampire and with that distinctly mannered voice of his says: "Julia, I pity you."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 11, 2020 0:20:46 GMT
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 11, 2020 1:54:05 GMT
I feel that Olan Soule deserves a mention. He’s known more for being in a billion episodes of all of our favorite TV series. He was also the voice of animated Batman in multiple shows in the 70’s. However, he was a bit player in many feature films including THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, CULT OF THE COBRA and THIS ISLAND EARTH. He is always a calming presence for me. I hope you’re all familiar with him.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 11, 2020 1:59:15 GMT
jervistetch Thanks for putting a name on that  very familiar face !
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