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Post by Rufus-T on Dec 3, 2021 22:26:20 GMT
Rob Reiner's mother Estelle Reiner born in 1914, but didn't start acting in minor roles during the early 1980s. She was most famous for her one-liner scene in When Harry Met Sally.  |
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Post by teleadm on Dec 3, 2021 22:38:04 GMT
 The old lady in The Ladykillers 1955, unfortunately she passed a away two years later, Katie Johnson
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Post by teleadm on Dec 3, 2021 22:51:00 GMT
Margaret Rutherford was virtually unknown to the rest of the world until she played Madame Arcati 1945 ( Blithe Spirit)  |
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Post by Rufus-T on Dec 3, 2021 23:42:15 GMT
Mama Corleone, Morgana King, was mainly a singer before her film career. She did not make her film debut until The Godfather. She was in her early 40s then. Seriously, I thought she was much older than that. Kudos to the make up.  |
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Post by Ollie Vander on Dec 4, 2021 17:02:44 GMT
Scatman CrothersJazzman, composer, occasional tv actor and uncredited character actor in feature films, Scatman became more visible when in his 60s with noteworthy appearances in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and The Shining.  He did many voice characterization in television animated programs when in his 70s.
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Post by marianne48 on Dec 4, 2021 20:21:08 GMT
Eva Le Gallienne was a renowned stage actress with a 60-year career in the theater, but appeared in only a few TV productions of plays and two feature films in the 1950s. Her third movie, Resurrection in 1980, earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the age of 82.
Reizl Bozyk also had a 60-year stage career, in Yiddish theater. Her feature film career consists of two titles, the second in a memorable role as Amy Irving's grandmother in Crossing Delancey in 1988, when she was 74.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 4, 2021 20:52:50 GMT
Might Charles Durning qualify?
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Post by Ollie Vander on Dec 4, 2021 21:23:55 GMT
Might Charles Durning qualify?
Sure. why not .. plenty of room for some of the younger folks ... especially as talented as Mr.Durning. "WWII veteran, dance instructor and diversely talented stage & screen actor were all inclusions on the resume of this perpetually busy US actor who didn't get in front of the cameras until around the time of his fortieth birthday. ... " It's a always a surprise to read of his dancing abilities !
"He really got noticed by film fans as the sneering, corrupt cop "Lt. Snyder" hassling street grifter 'Robert Redford' in the multi award winning mega-hit The Sting (1973)." He was 50 by this time !
Cool CD quotes: "I was in the business ten years before the actors began to notice me. Then it took another five years before the agents and producers noticed me. Five years after that, the public found me. And five or six years later, the critics took note." : James Cagney is probably the reason I became an actor. I think I learned much of what I know about acting from watching James Cagney movies. When people ask me, I tell them I didn't go to school. I learned directly from Cagney."
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Post by london777 on Dec 4, 2021 23:48:40 GMT
I'm not saying they weren't around, but Freeman and Dench were "unknowns" to the masses until their more mature years. I do not see anything about "the masses" in the thread title. What have they got to do with an artist's "blooming"? Many of the artists cited as having "bloomed" have remained unknown to the masses and, in some cases, even to film fans throughout their careers. How many of "the masses" could pick Ann Ramsey, June Squibb, Burt Mustin, Judith Lowry, Estelle Reiner, Morgana King, Eva Le Gallienne, or Reizl Bozyk out of a lineup or name a single film in which they appeared? Artistic "blooming" and achieving mass popularity are two totally separate things. Indeed there are many fine actors who take on roles in mass-appeal films because they are getting past serious acting and want a relatively easy big payoff. Judy Dench as been esteemed as a film actress since Four in the Morning (1965) written and directed by Anthony Simmons (and established as a theatre star around the same time). No-one will think she has bloomed any further by taking a part in a Bond film.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 5, 2021 4:43:59 GMT
Scottish actor Finlay Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968). He was 54 years old when he made his screen debut in The Old Man (1931). Working in English productions and Hollywood, his final film role was in Vendetta for the Saint released in 1969. Several films in which Currie appeared were nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture...
As James Gray in The Edge of the World (1937) Director Michael Powell's first major film project.
His most famous film role, among many distinguished performances.... the convict, Abel Magwitch, in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946)
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Post by Ollie Vander on Dec 5, 2021 5:02:12 GMT
Cyril Delevanti A character actor with a lengthy career that began in 1931 when he was 42 years old. Most of his movie roles were uncredited bits. He appeared primarily in serials and 'B-horrors', for which dignified English gentlemen were continuously in demand as undertakers, coroners or townsfolk. and then The Night of the Iguana (1964), as Deborah Kerr's elderly grandfather Nonno - 'the oldest working poet in the world' - for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. He was 75 but looked MUCH older (as he had done throughout his career)
Once I saw him in Iguana, I have always enjoyed spotting him in his "bit parts" and many TV appearances .
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 5, 2021 6:21:18 GMT
Our very own Australian born star Robert Greig (December 27, 1879 – June 27, 1958) Having moved to America in the 1920s Greig became a prolific character actor, often cast as the dutiful butler, he appeared in 100 films between 1930 and 1949... At 51 years old he debuted with his first screen credit as Hives the butler in Animal Crackers (1930) pictured below...  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 5, 2021 6:56:33 GMT
Maurice Moscovich was 64 when he made his screen debut playing Esdras in the crime drama Winterset (1936). Moscovich was born in Odessa in 1871, he emigrated to the United States in the late 1890's. With his distinctive accent he portrayed mostly wise and friendly old men, appearing in 14 films often with a Jewish background. Notably he played shopkeeper Max Rubens in Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) and art dealer Maurice Cobert in Love Affair (1939). His final film role before his untimely death in 1940 was Mr. Jaeckel in Chaplin's The Great Dictator, pictured below... 
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Dec 5, 2021 7:58:00 GMT
They say, characters actors don't really work until they are in the 40s. Though she studied acting as a youth, Thelma Ritter raised her children before returning to work at 45...late for a female actress.  |
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Post by Ollie Vander on Dec 5, 2021 15:49:15 GMT
Wilford Brimley (1934-2020) His first acting roles were in the '60s as a riding extra/stuntman in westerns. At that time he used the name Anthony (Tony) Brimley. First credited film roles were in The China Syndrome and The Electric Horseman (1979) IMO most definitive role was as 'Well's in Absence of Malice 
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