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Who are your Favorite Character Actors?

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3/5/08 at 2:12pm
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Re: Who are your Favorite Character Actors?

How about Will Ferrell? He plays basically the same character in every movie, but still makes me laugh every time.
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3/5/08 at 2:46pm
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Re: Who are your Favorite Character Actors?

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Originally Posted by JohnRice
That's too bad Rich. Clarkson is not anly a fine actress, but she's in a lot of good movies. Check out Far from Heaven (which also has Celia Weston, another of my picks) The Station Agent and Pieces of April for starters.

John,

Thanks for that. I have not seen any of those three films.

One character actor I'd like to mention is Leo McKern. He played a variety of roles but is perhaps best known for playing off-beat bad guys.

My guess is he is best known as playing Number 2 on the ground-breaking and influential series The Prisoner or the head of a religious sect in The Beatles romp Help! McKern had a glass eye which (somehow) allowed him to look a touch menacing in dramatic roles and a bit goofy in comedic roles. He also had a great voice and did a lot of work in commercials and a lot of British TV.

My favorite role of his was one of his earliest, in the lower budget film, TIME WITHOUT PITY. The role was both over-the-top and scary.
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