Supporting actors whose names you can never remember

[DaveCinzano]

Ronny Cox.

see 5 posts above yours

 

[Mrs Magpie]

This thread is driving me mad...I keep picturing the stalwart supporting actors of British Films and cannot for the life of me think what they're called...
AAARRRGGGHHH!

 

[Ryazan]

I know. I was in reference to it smartarse. Just mentioning his films, the genius of Verhoven.

Robocop was one of the best satires of corporate greed and social decay of the 80's.

 

[DaveCinzano]

This thread is driving me mad...I keep picturing the stalwart supporting actors of British Films and cannot for the life of me think what they're called...

like who?

 

[jeff_leigh]

That guy who was in Memento, he played a guy who lost his memory and his wife was a Diabetic and ended up giving his wife too much insulin and killing her, seen him on the TV recently on CSI or Law and Order

 

[DaveCinzano]

guy pearce?

anyway, here's one:

max perlich

saw him last night in 'georgia', never seen it before, but it was rather good, with jennifer jason leigh the fucked up younger sister of c&w star mare winningham, and perlich rather spiffing as jjl's chap.

he also was in 'rush' with jjl, and 'drugstore cowboy', 'blow', big budget dogs like 'cliffhanger' and 'maverick', he was in 'homicide: life on the street' and featured in the pilot of 'the shield', he was even in 'ferris bueller's day off', susanna hoffs vehicle 'the allnighter' and arliss 'pvt cowboy' howard's not-quite post-'full metal jacket' breakthrough movie, 'plain clothes'...

big up the max!

 

[jeff_leigh]

guy pearce?

no he was the main star in memento, i'm talking about when pearce remembers he worked for an Insurance company and this guy had lost his memory and was trying to claim medical insurance for his condition, middle aged guy going bald

 

[DaveCinzano]

back to dirty martini's original premise, uk tv drama stalwarts...

geoffrey hutchings - most recently niticable as screw's husband bobby hollamby in 'bad girls'... spotted him as a bank cashier in 70s series 'raffles' the other day, he's also served time in 'casualty', 'holby city', 'kavanagh q.c.', 'the royal', 'heartbeat', 'juliet bravo', 'cracker', 'midsomer murders', 'bergerac', 'peak practice' etc etc

he was also the father of the schoolgirl john cleese gets to drive him in 'clockwise'...

 

[Melinda]

This thread is ace. There is an actor who I always notice when he pops up in movies. I remember watching him in a movie when I was a kid but couldnt remember it. I knew it was named after an unusual animal or something. So I was like Dragonhead... Donkeyhead... Then I remembered I saw him in Friends and Deep Blue Sea, and went straight to imdb. The movie was ZEBRAhead and the actor is Michael Rapaport!

 

[DaveCinzano]

no he was the main star in memento, i'm talking about when pearce remembers he worked for an Insurance company and this guy had lost his memory and was trying to claim medical insurance for his condition, middle aged guy going bald

gotcha...

*scratches head*

i can picture him right now

usually plays slightly anal people...

 

[DaveCinzano]

...in fact i've already mentioned him (post #15) - stephen tobolowsky!

 

[tobyjug]

Jack Elam

 

[jeff_leigh]

...in fact i've already mentioned him (post #15) - stephen tobolowsky!

yeah thats him, remember this scene in Memento:

Sammy Jankis: [after being electrocuted] What the fuck?
Doctor: It's a test, Sammy.
Sammy Jankis: [flipping him the bird] Test this, you fucking quack!

 

[tonywild2001]

Is this the right place to ask questions ? Like does anyone know the name of the actress who plays Trisha Taylor in Eastenders ?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Is this the right place to ask questions ? Like does anyone know the name of the actress who plays Trisha Taylor in Eastenders ?

cathy murphy

 

[haggy]

warren oates and dean stockwell and michael j pollard are my faves. i love these guys, but whenever they turn up i wriggle for half hour trying to remember their names...

 

[jeff_leigh]

i used to always confuse Frank Vincent ( the guy who always seems to get battered by Joe Pesci) and Dennis Farina (the guy Travolta smacked in Get Shorty)

 

[nino_savatte]

Sam Kydd: unsung hero of British screen

 

[marty21]

harry andrews...

 

[tonywild2001]

Cheers

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Sam Kydd: unsung hero of British screen

I could have named him, no probs....

 

[AverageJoe]

How about this guy? 93(!) films including From Dusk Til Dawn, all the Spy Kids films, Desperado, Heat, and Con Air. Surely the ultimate supporting actor!

Danny Trejo

 

[AverageJoe]

How did I manage to kill this thread...?

 

[isvicthere?]

Um, you know, er.... that bloke, um..... wossisname?

 

[Major Tom]

Can't remember his name - but I saw him once in Charing X Station right after I'd seen him in a Ken Russel's "Lair of the White Worm"

 

[DaveCinzano]

Can't remember his name - but I saw him once in Charing X Station right after I'd seen him in a Ken Russel's "Lair of the White Worm"

Paul Brooke - who is still alive, it seems

 

[bluestreak]

that fella. you know the one, who was in all the films, the one with the nose. and the bird with the teeth. i saw her in all sort of things. she's great. is she alive?

 

[bluestreak]

also, fine archival bump Cinzano.

 

[DaveCinzano]

that fella. you know the one, who was in all the films, the one with the nose. and the bird with the teeth. i saw her in all sort of things. she's great. is she alive?

Yootha Joyce?

 

[DaveCinzano]

also, fine archival bump Cinzano.

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