My related comment - https://hexbear.net/post/223137/comment/2843226. It's about the character actor Leon Rippy.
I wanted to mention an actor with an "old-timely" bio but I had no hope of remembering his name without google. I remembered he was in a movie (that I didn't remember the name of) by a director (I didn't remember the name of). I watched the director's commentary and he said he cast Rippy in the small role of the lawyer because he said something very roughly like "Rippy had a memorable look" and "his teeth weren't perfect". My other clues were that the there was a "cowboy" who drives a pickup (never rode a horse) and he likes opera.
I was thinking of The Life of David Gale directed by Alan Parker. Pointless trivia - Kevin Spacey plays the lead role of a professor who is against capital punishment but he's accused of murdering his wife. It's sort of amazing how many "I'm not at all what I seem" roles Spacey played over the years. He must have been in creep heaven while performing them.
Anyway - I love character actors. They're awesome.
I remember watching that. He’s accused of the murder and gets the death penalty then when he’s executed the big reveal is that she killed herself and they did it on purpose to prove that the death penalty kills innocent people. Pretty dumb since we already fucking know that it kills innocent people, that people don’t know this isn’t the thing stopping it from being abolished.
I saw a tweet “they don’t make white guys like Paul Newman anymore”. Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, and James Dean were heartthrobs but did not look like each other at all.
You’re right about actors like Peter Lorre. Can you imagine Jack Nicholson getting casted today as a leading man?
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My related comment - https://hexbear.net/post/223137/comment/2843226. It's about the character actor Leon Rippy.
I wanted to mention an actor with an "old-timely" bio but I had no hope of remembering his name without google. I remembered he was in a movie (that I didn't remember the name of) by a director (I didn't remember the name of). I watched the director's commentary and he said he cast Rippy in the small role of the lawyer because he said something very roughly like "Rippy had a memorable look" and "his teeth weren't perfect". My other clues were that the there was a "cowboy" who drives a pickup (never rode a horse) and he likes opera.
I was thinking of The Life of David Gale directed by Alan Parker. Pointless trivia - Kevin Spacey plays the lead role of a professor who is against capital punishment but he's accused of murdering his wife. It's sort of amazing how many "I'm not at all what I seem" roles Spacey played over the years. He must have been in creep heaven while performing them.
Anyway - I love character actors. They're awesome.
I remember watching that. He’s accused of the murder and gets the death penalty then when he’s executed the big reveal is that she killed herself and they did it on purpose to prove that the death penalty kills innocent people. Pretty dumb since we already fucking know that it kills innocent people, that people don’t know this isn’t the thing stopping it from being abolished.
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I saw a tweet “they don’t make white guys like Paul Newman anymore”. Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, and James Dean were heartthrobs but did not look like each other at all.
You’re right about actors like Peter Lorre. Can you imagine Jack Nicholson getting casted today as a leading man?
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