Call This Guy's Agent
by horn-5 | Public
Discuss the poll here.
If you were a casting director, whose agent would you call first.
While best know as the grandfather in The Waltons television series, his movie roles ranged from playing Wyatt Earp to an Indian Chief to a convict to a lawyer....none of which resembled anything smacking of type-casting.
Possibly the King of Quirkey Characters, most of which had quirks within quirks, and most of which were shuffled off to Buffalo about half-way through the film.
Blustery and his opinions wre usually out-of-sync with what was going on, but plugged right on in a damn-the-torpedos appointed course.
Okay, name another Hungarian actor who could get away with playing an Asian detective.
He never had a communications problem, albeit those around him didn't always gets his message.
His alligator-mouth usually overloaded his hummingbird-butt but he was the master of the brazen-bluff...even after his pair-of-treys hand had had been called.
His quiet under-playing of such diverse characters, ranging from Nazi-inspired rulers of African jungles to Fu Manchu to a Kiowa war chief just added to their menace.
No matter how small the role and accent-present, he had the ability to bring a (usually unwritten ) depth to his characters.
A late-comer to films, he could play killers, sheriffs, gangsters, priests, politicians and doctors, sans chewing the scenery or bumping into the furniture, in a presence-noted manner.
No surprises regarding the intent and purpose of his characters , but using a wooden arm as a pegboard for darts puts him on this list.
If Jeff Corey is not available , call Royal Dano's agent.
Need a dog-kicking henchman? Get Elam. Need a klutzy sidekick in an A-feature western. Get Elam.
Could swing from the highest mountain (Grapes of Wrath) to the bottom of Gower Gulch (Billy the Kid vs. Dracula).
An Italian gangster, a Jewish father and the voice of a papa mouse? Get this guy.
Stoolies, weazels, gabby cabbies or a cross-dressing sidekick, Stone left nothing unturned. Plus he was real short and short-leading men didn't have to stand on a box to look him in the eye.
Very few actors could play a guy who hates oil-can displays at a service station.
Not hard to find an actor who can play a redneck, but hard to find a redneck-actor who can play a redneck who hates tattoos. "Cannonball" Taylor could.
A BA degree in drama from Temple University and then studying drama with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg didn't hurt him any.
Get me that guy who played a dead man and didn't crack up while Lee Marvin sang Happy Birthday to him.
Owner of one of the two saddest faces in films...the other one belonged to Droopy the Dog.
The names you never remember with faces you never forget list was created for Beamont's Justin McQueen.
Coleman's characters did not recognize nor practice political correctness.
A supporting-cast member who was capable of carrying the film on his own.
Brimley and another former-stuntman friend Richard Farnsworth, made a bit they had been doing for years---hummimg Name That Tune---and made it one of the many highlight scenes in "The Natural."
Won best-supporting actor Oscar for "A Thousand Clowns (1965)".
Still working now after 40-plus years as one of the best good-ol'-boys even when his good ol'boy shows up with an agenda that may not be good.
Do not, under any circumstances, try to outwit him. He can read your mind.
