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Post by bravomailer on Sept 3, 2017 16:36:05 GMT
Joe Spinell – Godfather 1 and 2, Taxi Driver, Rocky....  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 3, 2017 16:39:31 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 3, 2017 16:40:38 GMT
Joe Spinell – Godfather 1 and 2, Taxi Driver, Rocky.... A lotta buffers there, Bat. He advised Rocky to invest in condos -- but Rocky never uses them. |
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 3, 2017 16:51:28 GMT
Spinell offs Moe Greene and later takes away Tessio's roscoe in Godfather 1, before singing at the Kefauver Committee hearing in the sequel. That's where he memorably refers to the Corleone family's use of "buffahs".
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 3, 2017 16:57:54 GMT
I assume that, like me, you spotted him in the Julius Caesar image. Noteworthy film appearances include Sweet Smell Of Success (sans hairpiece) as Leo Bartha, the columnist Sidney Falco attempts to blackmail into printing a "blind item" smear, and North By Northwest (with hairpiece) as the intelligence official who observes about Roger Thornhill's predicament, "It's all so terribly sad, why is it I feel like laughing?" |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 3, 2017 17:01:40 GMT
Doghouse6 RE: Julius ... yep ! Here's Lawrence Dobkin with "rug" 
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 3, 2017 17:56:39 GMT
It works the other way sometimes: I recognize names in the closing credits but have no idea who they were in the film.
Val Avery
Ted de Corsia
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 3, 2017 18:04:06 GMT
...a few, but sorry no pics:
Henry Kulky
Tor Johnson
Dennis Hoey
Jerry Colonna
Michael Ripper
Lucien Littlefield
Frank Faylen
Vince Barnett
Kathleen Freeman
Jack Lambert
Wallace Ford
John Anderson
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 3, 2017 18:14:04 GMT
John Douchette once played my uncle (by marriage). Canon City (1948) (pronounced “Canyon City” – the city has since officially added the tilde over the “n” in Canon) is a noir semi-documentary-style drama, with filming on location in Colorado where a massive 1946 prison break took place in the eponymous city, location of the State Pen. The convicts who escaped fanned out over the area and invaded several homes in an attempt to hide and get transportation out of the area. One of the homes invaded was that of the Bauers, George and Mary Lou (John Douchette and Eve March) and their small children, Myrna and Jerry. Mary Lou Bauer was my father’s younger sister. Myrna and Jerry are my first cousins. They were paid for the use of their true names and story. Although the movie version of their ordeal is fictionalized and the escapee (Scott Brady) is turned into a good/bad guy, the script is essentially factual.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 3, 2017 18:22:31 GMT
Ladies allowed?  Lurene Tuttle, prolific radio ("Effie" in Sam Spade) and television actress, whose generally sunny personality also enlivened many films, among them: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (as Cary Grant's patient but weary secretary) Niagara (as the wife of Don Wilson's Nabisco executive) Sweet Smell Of Success (displaying her "bored sophisticate" side as Mrs. Bartha, wife of the previously-mentioned Lawrence Dobkin, who spends evenings with him at nightclubs poring over the Racing Form for $2 bets, which she describes to him as "Compensation, Leo, for the marginal life we lead.")Psycho (as the chirpy Mrs. Chambers, wife of Fairvale sheriff John McIntire) |
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Post by kijii on Sept 3, 2017 18:25:24 GMT
Bat,
Could you tell me how to post faces again....I forgot.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 3, 2017 22:58:35 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 3, 2017 23:22:57 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 3, 2017 23:35:31 GMT
mikef6SUPER story about John Doucette. Scarey but soooooo cool ! Thanks for the share !  MYRNA with the Cat  Could not find image with Doucette 
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Post by gunshotwound on Sept 4, 2017 0:20:45 GMT
Olan Soule 
Henry Brandon 
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Bethel Leslie 
Madge Blake 
Abraham Sofaer 
Leo Gordon 
Harry Ellerbe 
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Post by MiketheMechanic on Sept 4, 2017 0:23:25 GMT
These go waaaayyyy back....  Inez Courtney   Edward J. Nugent   James Murray  Noel Francis  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2017 0:25:58 GMT
gunshotwoundYootha Joyce was the only one I didn't remember ever seeing. Yootha = joy in Maori. Cool ! Nice collection.
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Post by gunshotwound on Sept 4, 2017 0:41:20 GMT
Vernon Dobtcheff 
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 4, 2017 0:55:36 GMT
I agree that women actors have been a bit neglected (I included Margaret Wycherly in my first post here) so here are a few select faces: Cora Witherspoon  Spring Byington  Beulah Bondi  Cleo Moore  Patsy Kelly  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 4, 2017 2:21:41 GMT
Unsung, anonymous...  ...Stanley Ridges. Equally at home as rigid military officers, sage doctors, knowledgeable lab technicians, officious bureaucrats, lawyers and other professional types, he could always put a subtly different complexion to each: authoritative here, subservient there; arrogantly obtuse or quick on the uptake; trustworthy or sinister. And occasionally, he had the opportunity of a showier-than-usual role in a prestige picture such as Each Dawn I Die, The Sea Wolf, Sergeant York or To Be Or Not To Be (in which he played the real Prof. Siletsky, contributing to the laughs even when appearing as a corpse alongside impersonator Jack Benny). His truly shining hour came in 1940 by way of a rather silly Universal "B" variation on Jekyll & Hyde, Black Friday, in which he inhabits the dual roles of meek, dithery and absent-minded college professor George Kingsley and brutal gangster Red Cannon, managing easily to steal the entire picture from titular stars Boris Karloff (who effects the change by transplanting the dying Cannon's brain tissue into the injured Kingsley) and Bela Lugosi. Overlook the nonsensical way in which a decade of age physically drops away from Kingsley when the Cannon portion of his brain takes over, and simply marvel at the best display of versatility Ridges was ever granted in a single picture...and the way in which he runs with it. |
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