Wire Actors in other things

Couldn't find any previous mention of Burrell as the guard in the psychiatric prison in Silence of the Lambs.

No one seems to have mentioned Chad "Cutty" Coleman in The Expanse.

Bubbles in the Charlize Theron beer commercial

Most beer commercials have bubbles, tbrr

Clarke Peters rocking a not entirely unconvincing English accent in His Dark Materials.

Peters actually lived in London in the 70s and 80s, and in 1986 played a pretty despicable (but mostly silent!) pimp in Neil Jordan’s Bob Hoskins-classic Mona Lisa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swlUtEkXZ0

I just saw Wendel Pierce as Willy Loman on the West End stage in London - in a production that did nothing to change my opinion on the hokey 'Why you I oughta' qualities of that particular play and of stage acting in general. Still it was either that or pay 70 friggin' quid to watch West Ham play Leicester City.

wire actors in the wire: thx to a canny xmas present from my sister's boyf i am just abt to start watching the wire for the first time!!

ex editor of the wire watches the wire while listening to wire

I think "mark s finally watches the wire" deserves its own thread

Wendel Pierce also in a rather hopeless role as Alfre Woodard's husband in Clemency, but for a change it's good to see a male actor in the supportive/anguished spouse role.

tombot otm

can i fill the new thread with gifs from CATS (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr0A7TofowE

jellicle cops

Even though I'm the one who revived this thread I've never seen The Wire either!

come round to mine i now have it on DVD

So I hear.

Come round my yard I've got The Shield seasons 1 - 6 on't betamax!

Paul Ben-Victor (Spiros Vondas / Vondopoulos) as one of mob lawyer Christopher Walken's sub-goons in True Romance (alongside a pre-fat, pre-bald, pre-Sopranos Gandolfini )

I'm sure it's been posted before, but I did a literal spit-take when I showed my daughters Trapped in the Closet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNeITqRV3VQ

Domenick Lombardozzi (not-entirely-ethical Baltimore cop Herc) as a New York cop getting paid off with Britney Spears tickets in the first two minutes of Phone Booth (2003).

Rawls is on The Boys

There's a bit in the oral history book where Andre Royo (i think) mentions losing a job because they had cast Michael K. Williams in another role and didn't want two Wire actors in their movie because then people would compare it to The Wire.

Wonder what the record is for Most Wire Actors in a Single Film or TV Show is, post-The Wire. The Walking Dead had Cutty, D'Angelo and Carver, though I can't recall if Carver overlapped with the other two.

Damages season 2 had Rawls, Freamon and the newspaper guy from season 5. Clearly trying to be as complicated as the Wire and failing.

xp henry -- yes, they did overlap, but then two of them died soon after iirc

The question would be: as members of an ensemble cast, or in terms of appearances throughout the duration of a show? Like, if we're talking appearances, the winner would probably be something like CSI whatever or Criminal Minds or Supernatural or one of those long running killer/monster of the week shows.

Sadly I can't find a picture of Prez with soul patch and sensitive world-music fan hat as seen in Singles.

― joygoat, Friday, July 10, 2009 3:54 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just found this out today.

https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/21515218/1118full-singles-screenshot.jpg

caught bubbles in the slight but kind of cool and effective sci-fi Prospect the other day. "bubbles!" i said.

City on a Hill (Showtime): Rawls as Rawls, but a District Attorney arguing a case in front of Judge Phelan who plays Judge Phelan but with a Bahston accent

That's amazing.

Prez also turned up as a lothario poet/guitar teacher in Saint Frances (it's a good film too, on Netflix).

Such a long time since I saw this, I barely recall Prez's character, it's frightening how much the guy on the far left looks like Keir Dullea tho'.

I'm sure this is old news but Chris Bauer has a role in For All Mankind. I knew that he wore a fat suit when he played Sobotka, but damn, I didn't realize just how trim he is till I saw him on FAM.

Isiah Whitlock is in Gremlins 2 as a firefighter for about half a second.

― EDB, Saturday, July 11, 2009 8:51 AM

Dudes. DUDES.

https://i.imgur.com/Y7Nn9SA.png

Hizzoner Glynn Turman, Mayor Clarence Royce, was the science teacher in the first Gremlins!

whoa!