Faces: a thread for supporting movie/tv actors whose mugs most of you would recognize, but whose names you'd never know.

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http://www.crazy4cinema.com/Actor/imgs/levy.jpg
"The confused suburban dad."

http://www.aahceleb.com/picture/christinebaranski_003.jpg
"The uptight upper-class bitch."

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"Main character's father who's in the army."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:49 (twenty years ago)

you wouldn't know eugene levy or christine baranski? you're lucky you're european, kiddo.

― send your men of science quick (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:51 (twenty years ago)

FACES!!!11

― teh_kit!!1 has 0 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thequarter.org/issue12/VincentSchiavelli.jpg
"The face."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Hey! It's That Guy!

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Did Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander breed?

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2005/features/theysay/050725/jpiven.jpg
I know he's really famous and been around for years but I always always have to look up his name. I just have a blank spot for his name, even though it's quite a good. memorable name.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

That almost looks like a Botox-ed up Jeremy Piven.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

I mostly know Christine Baranski as the actress who was Joanna Lumley to Cybill Shepard's Jennifer Saunders, what else has she been in?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

I think she's the one they hire whenever a film needs someone to play a cold high society woman. I've seen her in that same role quite a few times, most recently in Marci X.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

She's no Jessica Walter.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

WILLIAM FICHTNER!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.citybeat.com/2000-02-24/tvradio-1.jpg
"The second line Jack Nicholson."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/images/thumb/5/56/152px-Vin.jpg http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2003/images/favourite_moment_3.jpg

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsghi/Media/ironside_michael_early.jpg http://www.geocities.com/cinemorgue2/johnsaxon.jpg

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

More like the third line Jack Nicholson, I dare say Michael Ironside is the second line:
http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsghi/Media/ironside_michael_early.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

xpost, obv

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

It frightens me that I know all of these names without looking them up. What a productive use of neurons. :\

What scares me even more is that I know that Xander Berkeley, next to Dick Miller up there, is married to fucking Debra Winger? WHY DOES MY BRAIN KNOW THIS???

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

http://silentgents.com/OSG31/Campbell01.jpg

http://www.offoffoff.com/film/2005/images/yes2.jpg

http://www.romy.de/lebenswerk/rs-a01.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Xander Berkeley, next to Dick Miller up there, is married to fucking Debra Winger?

I thought he was married to Sarah Clarke that played Nina Myers in 24?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

And Debra Winger was married to Timothy Hutton for a while, but I think not anymore?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

http://crudefutures.typepad.com/crude_futures/files/marshall.jpg

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/Stennis/RayWalston.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

john saxon is great & squirmy in 'mitchell'

my choice for this is peter macnichol - one of the funniest ppl ever

― +++, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

(plz somebody post a pic, preferably as janosz or in addams family values)

― +++, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

That's a weird pic of Shirley Henderson. I like her. She's in the forthcoming Marie Antoniette which I am muchly looking forward to.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Ray Walston was my hero when I was 5.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bunnweb.org/smbunn/hester/uhf/uhf17.jpg
"The generic Asian guy in American comedies."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.starwrecked.faketrix.com/contents/celebs/large-pics/David-Ogden-Stiers.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.angryasianman.com/images/angry/alleong.jpg

"the generic asian guy in american 80s action movies"

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

UK answers to this:

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http://www.dirkmaggs.dswilliams.co.uk/graphics/michal%20fenton%20stevens.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.movie-gazette.com/directory/img/george+kennedy.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Ailsa, you're right! I was thinking of another one of these guys, Arliss Howard.

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/new_line_cinema/birth/_group_photos/arliss_howard6.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nndb.com/people/123/000036015/udo-kier.jpg

http://www.nndb.com/people/707/000024635/negron2-sized.jpg

http://www.thegoonies.com/images/mama.jpg

Another character actress that I can't find a decent photo of: Billie Bird, who was the gun-toting old lady in the Police Academy

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Actually, how many (frequently used) character actresses are out there? I can only think of Anne Ramsey(RIP), Billie Bird(RIP), Edie McClurg, ...

oh yeah, and Zelda Rubenstein:

http://www.photoworld-online.com/pics4/zeldar.jpg

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.robkruyt.com/P/images/P-Winston.jpg

winston rekert, aka tv's 'adderley'

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fast-rewind.com/samary4.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Wait, that really was Jeremy Piven back there, right?

― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

http://www.warnerbros.co.uk/video/img/the_gift/greg_kinnear.jpg

After having seen Little Miss Sunshine I have to add him to the list. I was like, "Hey, it's... er, that guy!", and had to wait for the end titles to remember who he was.

― Tuomas, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://folk.ntnu.no/jonkjeti/Lost/Zeke.jpg

Often facial-haired, usually plays cops/people-of-authority.

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

(btw his name is MC Gainey and he is truly one of my favorite actors, but I didn't know his name until recently - I usually referred to him as "Pink Panty Meltdown" in reference to one of his many great lines in Club Dread)

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/1winstone2-gal-beowulfprem.jpg

― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:40 (seventeen years ago)

http://i33.tinypic.com/2r55mib.jpg

― Kerm, Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:46 (seventeen years ago)

I think the entire population may disagree with Tuomas there.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:48 (seventeen years ago)

OF THE UK> Dur.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:48 (seventeen years ago)

Well, maybe he's a star in UK, but for me he's definitely "Hey, it's that guy!" type of actor.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:50 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.thequarter.org/issue12/VincentSchiavelli.jpg

Yes. I think my friend once referred to him as the the guy whose everywhere but no one knows (or something to that extent.

I remember this was pretty prominent with Ben Stein and David Cross, who both grew out of it.

― This time, or I'll perc you later (mehlt), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

hopefully this will be how danny dyer is remembered in 5 years time.

― mensrightsguy (internet person), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

the guy above was married to the woman who played ms dipesto in moonlighting. i think he died a couple of years back.

― Phonetic Elvis. (stevie), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

His son was Meno Puloos, star of tv's "Voyagers".

― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, Vincent Schiavelli died a couple of years ago, there was even an ILE thread about it.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

lol I thought Ray Winstone was Val Kilmer

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/1winstone2-gal-beowulfprem.jpg http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/m/comic_book_show_171107/val_kilmer_1666257.jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

I've been re-watching Twin Peaks lately, and I can never get over the fact of how Don S. Davis (above) looks like serious cat!

http://coilhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/stargate_sg1_don_s_davis_int_hammond_9.jpg http://www.trigit.net/serious_cat.jpg

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

You should post that on totallylookslike.com.

Liev Schrieber was one of these for me till quite recently.
http://z.about.com/d/movies/1/0/i/5/O/fountainprem10.jpg

― chap, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

Looking at the "British actors playing Americans" thread, I just realized I meant to post a picture of Tom Wilkinson, not Ray Winstone:

http://www.jeffcarnahan.com/photos/20080217-Oscar_Picks/Michael_Clayton-Tom_Wilkinson.jpg

Apparently I've confused them with each other for all these years.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:48 (seventeen years ago)

@chap, cheers: http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=2841159

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 11 December 2008 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

that guy behind dennis quaid

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/1837/horse21fl8.jpg

i dont know why he looks so familiar, hes only been in this and 'the dark knight'.

― ǝɟɟɐzǝɟ (☪), Sunday, 14 December 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

He looks like a cross between Adrien Brody and Crispin Glover in Charlie's Angels.

― Tuomas, Sunday, 14 December 2008 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/C55508~Adrien-Brody-Posters.jpg + http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/030311/171033__willard_l.jpg

― Tuomas, Sunday, 14 December 2008 22:55 (seventeen years ago)

Wasn't he the lead singer of Rialto?

― snoball, Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:00 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/59762d24-776b-4bb6-8662-5e13b12e4c66.JPG

"The snarky clerk/secretary/nurse/etc."

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 09:28 (fourteen years ago)

Oh yeah, looks like she was mentioned by Kingfish way upthread. But I just watched Ferris Bueller the other day, and realized she's the perfect example of this thing.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 09:34 (fourteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Revive.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:07 (seven years ago)

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"The town bum"

― Tuomas, Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:10 (seven years ago)

Posts: a thread for supporting posters/trolls whose mugs most of you would not recognize, but whose names you can't delete from your brain.

― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:32 (seven years ago)

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