Who are some (...or all) of your favorite character/supporting actors?
Please make a comprehensive or a cursory list of your favs, or just drop a name...or just drop a few, or write an in depth essay about one or more of them...whatever you like.
Put as much or as little thought and effort into it as you feel like. Not meant to be a quiz or a chore.
But I often think about how important character actors are to the films we love (or however we feel about those films). I also regret that maybe...probably they don't get the due attention nor all the recognition they deserve.
I'll start by keeping my mentions to two. But there are so many.
Ian Holm. Wow. Soooooo many excellant roles. I may have first really noticed and really appreciated Iam Holm when I saw him play Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot in Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).
And there's From Hell, one of my favorite films. I've read and heard complaints about his casting. But I love him as Sir Willam Gull,
. Of course it's not just he who makes his performance so brilliant in this but also the whole team like the set designers, costume, the lighting, the way his eyes change color in such a subtle but amplifying way and so much more!
Maggie Smith. I haven't read the Harry Potter books yet, but I love the movies. And I love Maggie Smith playing Professor Minerva McGonagall. She's also brilliant playing Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey and also playing Constance, Countess of Trentham in Gosford Park.
Who else you got? I know there are tons more brilliant character/supporting actors who deserve more lovin.
Please make a comprehensive or a cursory list of your favs, or just drop a name...or just drop a few, or write an in depth essay about one or more of them...whatever you like.
Put as much or as little thought and effort into it as you feel like. Not meant to be a quiz or a chore.
But I often think about how important character actors are to the films we love (or however we feel about those films). I also regret that maybe...probably they don't get the due attention nor all the recognition they deserve.
I'll start by keeping my mentions to two. But there are so many.
Ian Holm. Wow. Soooooo many excellant roles. I may have first really noticed and really appreciated Iam Holm when I saw him play Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot in Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).
And there's From Hell, one of my favorite films. I've read and heard complaints about his casting. But I love him as Sir Willam Gull,
also known as Jack the Ripper
Maggie Smith. I haven't read the Harry Potter books yet, but I love the movies. And I love Maggie Smith playing Professor Minerva McGonagall. She's also brilliant playing Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey and also playing Constance, Countess of Trentham in Gosford Park.
Who else you got? I know there are tons more brilliant character/supporting actors who deserve more lovin.
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