Was recently watching a show on netflix and J.K. Simmons popped in. He is rarely a leading man but such a great character actor in so many shows and movies. Another one of my favorites is Stephen Root who was the judge in Justified, the crazy guy in office space and lots more. There are a lot of these guys or gals that really make the show. Bruce Dern is another great one. I am always using imdb when watching a show wondering where I have seen this or that actor before.

Who and what roles have you guys appreciated?

Way, to many to pick one

Gabby Hayes would be amongst them.

Andy DeVine

Clancy Brown is a good one.

Eddi Rochester Anderson.

Gary Oldman and complete list is too long but Slow Horses, Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy, the Fifth Element and Lawless show a bit of his range.

Alan Arkin was great too!

Yeah Clancy Brown is a good one. He was great in Shawshank and loved him in the canceled HBO series Carnivale.

Michael Rooker is a good one.

This guy was a good one too. Brion James. Was in a ton of stuff from the 70s until his death. A lot of B movies but some big ones too. Sometimes with a goatee. He was instantly recognizable but no one ever knew who he was.

Elisha Cook, Strother Martin, Ben Johnson

sumthing 'bout Jennifer Anniston

Yes she prob voted for brandon

Yanick Bisson Murdoch Mysteries

Bruce Dern as the bad guy in any western

Claude Rains - Jack Palance - Basil Rathbone - Sam Elliot

Harry Dean Stanton.

Even when he is the main character, he is still a character actor.

Sycamore

Karl Urban has been good in too many movies to mention, agree with Stephen Root, and Gary Oldman is in a class by himself, IMHO.

Old70

He was great in the John Wayne movie "The Cowboys "

I remember him I. Eddie Murphy’s Nick Nolte’s “48 Hours” and “Another 48 Hours”. He played a cop buddy of Nick Nolte’s and ended up being the bad guy that was trying to kill Eddie Murphy’s character in both films.
And in lots of other good movies in the 80’s and 90’s.

My two favorite character actors of all time would have to be ole Ben Johnson and Ward Bond.

Stefan Gierasch was good. Del Gue in Jeremiah Johnson, the mayor in High Plains Drifter, the principal in Carrie, many others.

Lee Marvin was great on The Man That shot Liberty Vallance

Stephen Lang

Steven seagull

I like Carlnuut Yambokr

Burton Gilliam
He's been in a couple of the dealers I've worked at
with his vehicle in for service.
Really nice dude. Not a stuck up a hole at all.
He did infomercials for one place I worked at
all decked out in chaps and the cowboy garb
talking about how great the place was
I'm pretty sure he was the first one to fart in
the blazing saddles bean scene

John Qualen
Jane Darwell
More recent, Helena Bonham Carter

Jack Elam---------Those eyes---Great in every western

Michael Biehn.

Mr. Krabs




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Tom Skerritt,,,,

Alan Rickman
Tom Hardy
Joel Edgerton

Benicio Del Toro as Alejandro Gillick in the Sicario movies. Not sure how he didn't win an Oscar for that role. I guess too violent.

Burt Lancaster . Valdez is coming, awesome. Robert Duval .

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probably hear that song all night now, even though I didn't click on the video.

I always liked Arthur Hunnicutt. He was in one of my favorite Twilight Zones, and a bunch of Westerns.

Didn’t he play Johnny Ringo in Wyatt Earp?

JFC some ypu boomsticks, Character acto.... oh nevermind.

Jack Elam

Ben Johnson, Dub Taylor, Harry Carey Jr., Charles Bronson. Walter Brennan, Ron Jeremy.

Steve Buscemi

Never in my life read Walter Brennan and Ron Jeremy in the same sentence . I like it !

Yep, and Hicks in Aliens, and Reese in The Terminator.

LT James Curran too. He's good.

I'm also a fan of Robert Patrick. Good dude, actually is part owner of a Harley dealership and rides a lot, active with his fans too.

John Carradine.

Christopher Lloyd is great this is one of my favorite clips of his from a movie called Nobody. Pretty good movie

Yule Brenner played a good villain in the Ten Comandantes.

Just how big was Walter Brennan?

Katheryn Winnick

Lagertha.....

I like the ones with big blossom s

THIS!!!!!!!

And don’t forget Slim Pickens

John Malkovich

My wife call him old Walleye!!

Yeah,

I was wondering if I had to look up the definition for some folks and post it here.

Cliff Arquette

I've watched JJ and HPD a hundred times and I never noticed...I see it now.

Scott Glenn is a good one

Anthony James. Unforgiven, High Plains Drifter, Culpepper Cattle Co. etc.

Don’t forget Val Kilmer.

He's iffy for this list, he has had his share of leading roles.

Has anyone said Gene Hackman? Maybe even Robert Duvall. I swear, they are in about everything in some form or fashion.

Bruce McGill. He's played bad guys and good guys. He played D Day in Animal House.

Victor McGlaglen
Ward Bond

How about Marjorie Main aka Ma Kettle and a host of supporting roles?

From the Golden Age of Hollywood....................

Claude Rains, also had some starring roles.

Thomas Mitchell.

Guy Kibbee

Alan Hale Sr.

Edward Arnold

Charles Bronson

“ I’ll be your Huckleberry, Say when”

Steve Buscemi is another great one. Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers utilized him to great effect along with many other great supporting actors in their films. Harvey Kietel, Walton Goggins, William H. Macy were all pretty good.

Levon Helm - Coal Miner's Daughter, The Right Stuff, Fire Down Below, etc


Pretty good here and elsewhere -

R.G. Armstrong, Jay C. Flippen, Peter Lorre, Robert Wilke .... and so many more great character actors.

L.W.

Jack Elam

Jack Elam

Hattie McDaniel

Edward Norton

Richard Boone

Gene Hackman

Jack Palace

A number of English actors / The Cruel Sea incl Jack Hawkins

Michael Caine

Lee Van Cleef

Lead actor and supporting young man actor Breaking Bad

I don't think many of the respondents know what a character actor is...

R. Lee Ermey played some good parts. Boys in Company C, Siege of Firebase Gloria, Full Metal Jacket, Mississippi Burning, Sommersby etc.
RIP Gunny!

Ron

Edward Norton and Daniel Day Lewis

Oh, and Ben Foster. 30 days of Night and Lone Survivor to name a few

Best Ever.

They do not.

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