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Post by jimmalone on Aug 13, 2019 8:46:25 GMT
He's actually quite regarded among the French critics, but at least in my country totally unknown, while I always love to see him: Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Even if he's just in a film for a few moments he will add something of worth and if he has a bigger role he will most of the time be able to present a character with many facets. His performance in Cedric Klapisch's "Un air de famille" might be my Best Supporting winner in 1996.
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 24, 2019 19:48:06 GMT
Not mentioned on MA yet at all.... “He was a dervish of talent,” Katherine Hepburn said of Rene Auberjonois. They co-starred in Coco on Broadway in ’69, for which Rene won a Tony. He was Tony-nom’d 3 other times. Actually in ’69, he appeared in four different Broadway plays - incl Cry of Players with Frank Langella, and as The Fool in Cobb’s King Lear - and filmed his MASH role, his first of five Altman’s he would appear in. So, a prolific theater actor, especially musicals, a cult genre actor for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (173 eps), he was also in 71 eps of Boston Legal - I haven’t seen either. He was in the last play directed by Arthur Penn (Sly Fox revival) in ’04. And he’s still working, showing up in the last few Kelly Reichardt movies. Memorable in Brewster McCloud hysterically turning into a bird, as Faye Dunaway’s flamboyant manager in Eyes of Laura Mars, as a sangfroid vampire in satire My Best Friend is a Vampire, a brilliant bit as the mentor of Frasier in S8E9… And of course as the gullible Sheehan in McCabe & Mrs Miller - I believe he said it was his idea to dress in better clothing as the movie progresses to suggest the luxury of his selling out. Any fans? pacinoyes How is his Night Gallery episode? and if you seen it, is The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (w Bette Davis) worth looking into?
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 24, 2019 20:31:48 GMT
pacinoyes How is his Night Gallery episode? and if you seen it, is The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (w Bette Davis) worth looking into? One of my fave Night Gallery episodes actually - the Night Gallery's with Ross Martin in them are aces imo (there's 2 with him - the other one is with Burl Ives). He's in this with Auberjonois in some ominous back and forth dialog - and it's a old fashioned tale that's quite good in a simple way - good for Halloween - when Serling had control on the episodes they could be really good stuff. The Dark Secret of Harvest Home is way too long and chintzy on production values but Davis is totally into it - it's worth seeing I guess for her and it's really worth seeing for where Ari Aster got all his ideas from. Apparently the book is good but I never read it.......aside from Davis no one else really registers acting wise that I can recall anyway.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Aug 29, 2019 11:55:18 GMT
From the horrified Dan in Mulholland Drive, to the horrifying Smoothie in the brilliant Happy, Patrick Fischler never drops the ball. He might not have a superstar career, but damn if he isn't reliable as hell and when he has a great role, he just soars.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 31, 2019 23:24:46 GMT
Her 76th birthday was earlier this week - so happy belated birthday to a woman of great beauty - and sex appeal - who was often overlooked for her actual acting - Tuesday WeldPlay it As it Lays, Cincinatti Kid, OUATIA, Thief, Who'll Stop The Rain and some great TV stuff too. Underrated actress and in the photo below from Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" album she was unattainable and bewitchingly alluring at the same time.
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Post by hugobolso on Sept 28, 2019 16:06:51 GMT
Micheal Ironside the Jack Nicholson of B movies Shannon Tweed the Meryl Streep of Erotic Thriller
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Sept 28, 2019 18:30:09 GMT
already alluded to this in another thread but Claire Bloom is woefully underrated. She had lots of strong roles in the 60s (including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) but her best and most underrated work was for playing psychic Theo with unclear motivations in The Haunting (1963) opposite Julie Harris. It's unlike anything else I've seen from Bloom (and I wish she had gotten to play more of these kinds of roles). Theo is an emancipated woman who always seems to feel totally sure of herself (and her coded lesbianism) and always in control whenever she's in frame, especially next to the meeker Harris. Her psychic abilities give her immediate sway over the Harris character and she nonchalantly drops menacing hints about Harris's troubled past ("I know you didn't kill your mother"), as if flexing her strength. There's nothing more empowering than knowing the vulnerabilities of everyone else in the room, and Bloom brings that to life brilliantly, with delicious bitchy edge.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 30, 2019 20:20:20 GMT
John Witherspoon passed away yesterday, he was 77. Always a welcome comic relief he popped up in several Eddie Murphy films, Friday, Hollywood Shuffle. He was beloved by that fraternity of actors who appeared in the same films as he did too. RIP
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 30, 2019 21:42:54 GMT
John Witherspoon passed away yesterday, he was 77. Always a welcome comic relief he popped up in several Eddie Murphy films, Friday, Hollywood Shuffle. He was beloved by that fraternity of actors who appeared in the same films as he did too. RIP No matter what role, always made me laugh. RIP. Maybe the Walter Brennan of those types of movies? lol Here's one little scene from Vampire in Brooklyn.... Wes Craven urged him to improvise and you can see him throwin' down here.... "Ever seen a motherfuqqer flip flop on you??"
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Post by Viced on Oct 31, 2019 23:21:16 GMT
Peter Jason... this guy is so under-appreciated that I had to google his name before making this post. John Carpenter regular from like '87-'95, worked with Walter Hill a number of times, and I'd say one of the under-the-radar MVPs of Deadwood... he's hilarious as Con Stapleton. The guy does smarmy incredibly well... always enjoy him popping up in stuff.
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 1, 2019 17:55:06 GMT
David Warner - never talked about on the boards yet - probably somewhat esteemed in the UK, in America I feel like noone knows his name but would recognize him. He's been in two Best Picture winners - Tom Jones, Titanic - and some well known (cult) classics The Omen, Time Bandits, Straw Dogs, TRON, Viced fave Ballad of Cable Hogue, he appears in French Lieutenant's Woman too. He's also worked with Sidney Lumet a few times, John Carpenter, John Frankenheimer, Volker Schlöndorff, Alain Resnais, & Wes Craven - speaking of which he almost got the part of Freddy Krueger so much so he did extensive makeup tests that you can find online. I watched From Beyond the Grave last night where he plays another dire, unnerved character. But...... my favorite, pictured above, is his obedient, eloquent, hilarious role in Little Malcolm ('74 opposite John Hurt) - I post it all the time but his "corduroy" argument is an all-timer must-see, it's on Youtube. Works all three Film/TV/Stage - lotta Shakespeare theatre and his only Broadway outing, a George Bernard Shaw play in '01, he was Drama Desk nom'd. TV - I've seen A Christmas Carol opposite George C Scott, and a great fitful perf in The Blue Hotel, lot others I've N/S include Emmy-nom for Holocaust w/ Streep... Still going at 78/yo, with over 200 IMDb credits........ Any fans?
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 29, 2019 22:34:07 GMT
Welker White - She provides The Irishman with one of it's most tense moments - both times I saw the film the audience gasped. A veteran of several Scorsese films and TV - Law & Order especially - she's a great and memorable Jo Hoffa.
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Post by stephen on Nov 29, 2019 22:38:00 GMT
Welker White - She provides The Irishman with one of it's most tense moments - both times I saw the film the audience gasped. A veteran of several Scorsese films and TV - Law & Order especially - she's a great and memorable Jo Hoffa. It's insane to me that people aren't talking more about Welker White. For all the praise people are lobbing at that phone call scene (which I definitely can't subscribe to on De Niro's end), her grief and panic is absolutely palpable and rings so true, and the scene where she turns the key is the tensest moment of the entire movie by far, despite me having enough historical knowledge to know there was no real danger in that moment. The movie's not aging well at all for me (no pun intended), but White stands out so much in her brief screentime, and the fact that people are talking about Anna Paquin of all people and ignoring White is just . . . just weird, man.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 2, 2020 20:43:12 GMT
A character actor who popped up in major films in small yet pivotal roles - the bribe taking cop in Serpico, the on the take thorn in the side of Robert DeNiro in Midnight Run - Jack Kehoe was a welcome presence for almost 3 decades in American film. In Serpico:
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Post by rhodoraonline on Jan 12, 2020 1:35:06 GMT
I remember once mentioning ROBERT HARDY in one such thread some years ago (it may have been on IMDb, lol). Anyways, you guys know him of course from Harry Potter's Ministry of Magic and as one of the supporting roles in Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility. He was an absolutely terrific lead and character actor in his own right. I fell hopelessly in love with him when I saught out the adaption of my favorite nonfiction James Harriot's "All Creatures Great and Small". Hardy killed it as a senior vet Siegfried who hires James. His younger brother Tristan was also played brilliantly by Peter Davison, who later played Dr. Who. If you're looking for pure fun and laughter some day, most of the episodes are on YouTube and it's an unbridled joy. These two are comic geniuses together!
He's also one of the lauded Churchills.
He was also a great Charles Magnusson in Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes:
A truly underrated genius! Died at 91 some years ago.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 22, 2020 20:12:41 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 18, 2020 11:52:08 GMT
Patricia Hodge - Currently rewatching A Very English Scandal where she pops up as Hugh Grant's mother Ursula. Perhaps best known for UK TV work overall she's the memorable 3rd player in the Irons-Kingsley dual tour de forces in 1983's Betrayal.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 7, 2020 0:04:48 GMT
Keenan Wynn - with almost 300 IMDb credits, he pops up in a bunch of classics, Touch of Evil, Point Blank, Once Upon a Time in the West, Dr Strangelove ("You'll have to answer to the Coca Cola company"). Later on.... Nashville, The Mechanic, Piranha, etc. I remember him in Finian's Rainbow as a racist politician - and I loveeeeee his one scene in The Clock (1945), a 4-min single take as a drunk guy. Also recently saw Shack Out on 101 where he's MVP, gets great dialogue, and comedic moments like teaching Lee Marvin the technique of lifting weights. Haven't seen most of his work, so idk how many if any other gems are in there .
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 25, 2020 16:24:35 GMT
Just read a fascinating interview with the fascinating Julianne Nicholson who most probably know from Law & Order: Criminal Intent but she's popped up a lot in (mostly) indie movies and TV in the last decade - always interesting and unique. Apparently she's in a new Kate Winslet movie TV thing (?).......also when she leaves her hair long she reminds me of Sissy Spacek.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Mar 25, 2020 16:35:59 GMT
Just read a fascinating interview with the fascinating Julianne Nicholson who most probably know from Law & Order: Criminal Intent but she's popped up a lot in (mostly) indie movies and TV in the last decade - always interesting and unique. Apparently she's in a new Kate Winslet movie.......also when she leaves her hair long she reminds me of Sissy Spacek. She's always been a great face in film and TV. I recently saw the Disney Dog survival flick Togo (pretty good), and she was really good in that, supporting Willem Dafoe. I think my favorite performance of hers to date, though was her recurring role on season 2 of Broadwalk Empire's as District Attorney Esther Randolph. She embodied a character on a paper, who could have been a nothing role, with a lot of vigor and determination.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 8, 2020 16:01:05 GMT
Caroline Dhavernas - Not really sure whether to put her here or in the last great performance I saw thread....but she's something of a TV beast with Mary Kills People, Hannibal and I just saw her be kind of brilliant in a Law & Order Criminal Intent (the show is acting staple for me I swear). She's in her early 40s ......nothing on her IMDB page upcoming........come on casting people that's why this girl I see everywhere isn't bigger. Grrrrrrr.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 26, 2020 19:09:20 GMT
Emily Lloyd - Somehow never heard of her before. I just watched her first two movies - and then looked up her Wikipedia - 1987, Wish You Were Here - 16y/o and she's the next big thing, global acclaim, BAFTA nom, she's on Johnny Carson, etc. It's a very good perf, sexy, hilarious, maddening. Then she beats out thousands, including Jodie Foster, for Cookie - from the two writers of Silkwood comes a... father-daughter mob comedy? It bombed, but I think it's underrated and very enjoyable. And she's its lively, again hilarious lead, this time a convincing New Yorker in Susan Seidelman-style 80s punk frill. That punk spirit of her perfs seems to be a real extension of herself, almost consistently impossible to work with, butting heads with costars, getting fired several times, but there seems to be a lot of battling depression and mental illness, which is sad. She turned down Pretty Woman (!) to do Mermaids but then Cher had her fired; She was fired from Husbands & Wives, replaced by Juliette Lewis. She did a few more interesting movies around there that I haven't seen - In Country (she's praised there, playing a Kentucky girl, and beat Winona for the part), Chicago Joe and the Showgirl, Scorchers (opposite Faye Dunaway, a sane set I'm sure), A River Runs Through It. That's about it - 1992 - five years after her breakout. She's still alive at 49y/o and after '92 did some movies here and there but they all seem pretty bad. The Primitives song 'Crash' plays during a Cookie scene - that song takes on greater meaning looking at her career. She's a major what if; a natural charismatic talent, an unaffected actress, who was pretty close to entering the 90s as its biggest star....... Any fans? Thoughts?
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Post by urbanpatrician on May 20, 2020 9:58:52 GMT
Mattsby - Emily Lloyd is definitely an actress I had my eye on. She must've been like Carey Mulligan was in An Education in 1987 with Wish You Were Here. I don't think she was in many other famous movies beyond that one tho, but she was definitely an exciting new British prospect at the time. Reminds me of a young Sarah Miles. (who is positively a divine goddess of a sort) I'm about to get into the 60s with my Best Actress series. That was the breakthrough decade. The sheer amount of new talent in that decade set the foundation for future generations. Actresses were going into new territory. Just probably the peak of all things acting wise occurred in that decade. On that note, let's talk about 50s actresses for a bit? Has anyone here seen any Susan Hayward? Is there anyone? Any microcosm of a soul here? I feel she's so obscure now where in the 50s she must have been known by many people. She's better than Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn, and Bette Davis but nobody takes the time to appreciate her - a true thespian artist who is capable of shedding the melodramatic image of some of her peers who are either 1) stuck in an older diva age 2) too mellow and melo. Her ability to dive deep into the human psyche like in I'll Cry Tomorrow (her masterwork performance) sets her apart, and makes her like a De Havilland in that regard. Last thing I'll say here is.... does anyone kind of forget Deborah Kerr actually did NOT play Lora Meredith in Imitation of Life? I had always pictured and ran through in my head that movie with her as the lead. I forget Lana Turner actually played that part.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 13:13:41 GMT
Anna Massey - daughter of Raymond! - so brilliant. One of the most incredible voices I've ever heard. Are you a fan, sirjeremy ?
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