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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 21, 2018 1:30:38 GMT
Mary Wickes re-created her stage role of 'Nurse Preen' in THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER for the film version. And she did it again for a 1972 Hallmark Hall Of Fame production with Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Joan Collins, Marty Feldman and Edward Andrews. I really loked Mary in 'Postcards from the Edge'. |
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 21, 2018 1:40:59 GMT
I think Claude Rains is the best of the character actors, but one of my favorites is Jerome Cowan. Miles Archer in The Maltese Falcon and the D.A. in Miracle on 34th Street and so many more films and TV shows.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 21, 2018 2:33:20 GMT
Another Western indispensable .. well.. mostly western Royal Dano "... undoubtedly one of the best, most quirky and striking character actors to ever grace the big and small screen alike in a lengthy and impressive career which spanned 42 years."  72 Feature Film credits / 119 TV ! Man of the West (1958)  Trivia mini-bite: Dano did the voice of the audioanimatronic Abraham Lincoln for Walt Disney's Hall of Presidents for both Disneyland and Disney World. |
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Post by teleadm on Mar 22, 2018 18:29:19 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 22, 2018 18:51:14 GMT
Remembering him particularly as Kate Hepburn's dad in WOMAN OF THE YEAR
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 22, 2018 22:37:46 GMT
Myron Healey IMDb Link "American actor and occasional screenwriter. One of the most frequently seen heavies in films and television programs of the 1950s, his name is nevertheless well known only to buffs. Occasionally he played minor leads and sympathetic characters, but his stern good looks and rich deep voice made him a memorable villain, particularly in Westerns."  .jpg)  For the recent military service thread. During World War II he joined the US Army Air Corps and was a navigator and bombardier, flying many bombing missions over Germany. MH: Another in my collection of dastardly dudes and villainous varmints remembered from my yoot.! 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 22, 2018 23:14:55 GMT
Whit Bissell IMDb link"Whit Bissell came to Hollywood in the 1940s, and by the time he retired he had appeared in more than 200 movies and scores of TV series. Bissell specialized in playing doctors, military officers and other authority figures. On television he was a regular on Bachelor Father (1957) and The Time Tunnel (1966). He also served on the Screen Actors Guild board of directors for 18 years and represented the actors branch in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board of governors."  .jpg) seems there's also a special thread for Whit : imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/94330/whit-bissell-great-character-actor
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 10, 2018 0:21:37 GMT
...another (though obscure) character actor favorite was Ernest Thesiger.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 10, 2018 2:34:32 GMT
...another (though obscure) character actor favorite was Ernest Thesiger. "Although he made nearly 60 films in a 50-year acting career, it is for the two he made with director James Whale that Ernest Thesiger will be best remembered."   |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 10, 2018 17:20:31 GMT
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