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Character Actors With Only One Stand Out Role

There are hundreds of minor character actors who had long careers but never made much of an impression on the general public. They mostly walked into frame, delivered their lines and vanished from memory, little more than background noise.

Now and then one of them would deliver a memorable performance and strike enough of a chord to ensure that every time the movie is brought up, people would recall the actor, even if they cannot remember his name or anything else he may have done in his career.

I don't mean someone like Harold Russell, who only made five films over a lengthy period, but actors who consistently labored for years, or decades, and never hit that high mark again.

Thomas E. Jackson
He has 188 credits but I'll always remember him as Sgt. Flaherty whose every word dripped venom in Little Caesar. Always glad when he shows up in a movie, but he never again achieved that acid edge in his voice.

Gerald Hamer
He racked up 34 credits between 1935 and 1966, but I'll be hard pressed to recall any of them except his excellent shape shifting performance in The Scarlet Claw.





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Possibly Ben Johnson. A stalwart performer who put in an outstanding performance as Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show.

Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses.

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Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses.

I think more people would remember him (and quite fondly) for WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. So, more than only ONE stand out role. And that's just for feature films, not television--where he worked quite frequently.

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Dwight Frye as Reinfield in DRACULA or as Fritz in FRANKENSTEIN (technically, that is two, so that may just eliminate him).

Not sure if he would count, because he was much more well known, but Strother Martin in COOL HAND LUKE certainly stood out.

Seiji Miyaguchi as the invincible Kyuzo in SEVEN SAMURAI (he did appear in other Kurosawa films, but nowhere near as his famous samurai role).

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Joe Mantell in Marty where he gets a famous line: "So what do you feel like doin` tonight, Marty?" Of course, he has another famous line, "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." but I`m not sure people associate that line with Joe.


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James Stephenson in The Letter

Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train

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James Stephenson is an excellent choice.He really was fantastic in The Letter.

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I don't know whether she would be considered a character actress (especially since I've seen only about three or four of the films she was in), but she certainly wasn't a star:

Martha Vickers in The Big Sleep, an excellent performance. Not only is she overt about her open sexuality but she subtly lets us know the girl parties with drugs, not just alcohol.

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The average person probably couldn't tell you where else they saw Margaret Hamilton, but they'll never forget her wicked witch in The Wizard Of Oz.

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Oh, I loved her when she delivered that well-deserved smack to Bonita Granville in THESE THREE.
I read somewhere that it was a real whack, not a pulled punch.

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The wonderful Ruth Donnelly, who was usually given very minor roles, but gladly she played a more relevant one in A Slight Case of Murder, in which she was hilarious.


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Jean Hagen in Singin' In The Rain.

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Jules Munshin in On The Town. He easily held his own with Kelly and Sinatra, but never hit those heights again.

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Though he had a storied career as a cameo actor, I think Shemp Howard (yes, Shemp Howard) stood out as the bartender at the Black Pussycat Café in WC Field's "The Bank Dick."

Gert Frobe as Goldfinger and in Those Magnificent Men In their Flying Machines - but I guess that is two.

Emile Meyer in Shane.

Richard Jaekel in Sometimes a Great Notion.

John Dierkes in The Red Badge of Courage.

F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus.

Sheldon Leonard as the bartender in It's A Wonderful Life!.

Clu Gulager in The Killers

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Abner Biberman as the Guru's son in GUNGA DIN (and Eduardo Ciannelli as his dad too)

John Qualen as 'Muley' in GRAPES OF WRATH ("And that's what makes it our'n -- bein' born on it and workin' on it and dyin,' dyin' on it.")

H.B. Warner as the wise 'Chang' in LOST HORIZON

The appropriately named Donald Meek as whiskey drummer 'Peacock' (from Kansas City, Kansas) in STAGECOACH

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-Mike Mazurki....Challenge To Be Free 1975

-Strothers Martin....Sssssss 1973




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Mazurki certainly "stood out" in the classic films noir Murder, My Sweet and Night and the City. He's far more renowned for those films than Challenge to be Free.

As for Srother Martin, one of the legendary scene-stealers, I'm sure you could do a lot better than a low-budget horror film...

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As for Strother Martin, one of the legendary scene-stealers


And how! During the filming of FOOLS' PARADE, star Jimmy Stewart (well aware of Martin's tricks from previous films they made together), was doing a scene with him during which Strother is holding a pad, a pencil, and a ball of string.

Stewart went over and told director Andrew McLaglen: "Ol' Strother there can have that pad, and he can hold on to the pencil -- but there ain't no way in hell he's keepin' that ball of string!"



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Strother Martin is famous for his leap-off-the-screen characters in "Cool Hand Luke" ("What we have here is failure to communicate") and "The Wild Bunch." He is more of a cult figure than a character actor with few stand-out roles.

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Vince Barnett as Tony Carmonte's incompetent secretary in Scarface (1932)


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Joe Spinell as Gazzo in the ROCKY films.

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Re Joe Spinell: I thought he stood out more in The Godfather II. "Yeah, da Corleones had a lotta buffahs!"

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Peggy Cass as Agnes Gooch in AUNTIE MAME

Good One

Good one, Rollo.


How's about Frederick Kerr as the elderly Baron Frankenstein in the 1931 Frankenstein? (In his case it's due in large part to his not having much longer to live.)

Not well known, but excellent: Murray Kinnell as Putty Nose, the Fagin-like corrupter of youth in The Public Enemy.

Louis Mason as the heartbroken, demoralized Okie in the camp scene in The Grapes Of Wrath after telling the story of his small child's death from starvation.

To move over to serials, Charles Middleton's Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon series. I know the actor's face and voice well, and he appeared in dozens of films, though I've never seen him so prominently featured as he was as Ming.

Jack Lambert appeared in all kinds of films over a period of more than twenty years, is probably best remembered as troublemaker and loose cannon Dum Dum Clarke in the 1946 The Killers.

Richard Erdman gave a superb, realistic performance as one of the prisoners in the 1953 Stalag 17, and a pivotal role it was. When I first saw the film on Saturday Night At The Movies I couldn't believe that Erdman was so obscure.

To get really obscure here: Douglas Spencer, for years Ray Milland's stand-in at Paramount, always had a lively career as a character actor, and is far and above best known for his key role as Scotty in the 1951 Thing From Another World.

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Mary Astor – “The Maltese Falcon”

William Duell – the Congressional Custodian in “1776” and, on TV, Johnny the Shoeshine informant in “Police Squad.”

Brenda Marshall in “The Sea Hawk”

John Litel – Carson Drew in the 1940s Nancy Drew film series

Mona Washbourne – Mrs. Pearce in “My Fair Lady”

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Alice Pearce -On the Town

Gwen Welles -Nashville

Lynn Carlin -Faces

Re: Mary Astor

I think that Mary Astor is becoming more and more remembered for her work in The Kennel Murder Case, and in Little Women.

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Am a bit surprised to see Mary Astor listed as a "Character Actor"... she had many starring roles during her long career. She was the female lead in many a film.

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I think that most of her films that people could come up with off the top of their heads would be supporting roles. Her Oscar was in support of Bette Davis. After "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) and "Across the Pacific" (1942), most, if not all, of her remaining 22 credits - through 1964 - were supporting.

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May be semantics but are "supporting role" and "character actor" really the same? Here's why I think not..

Many big name actors play "supporting" roles in their careers but they are not then considered to be "character actors" as such. The vast majority of "character" actors don't break out to play leads or even large supporting roles.

Isn't that what this thread is about ? Character actors we particularly remember for "one stand out role". Margaret Hamilton as the Witch being a prime example. Elisha Cook in Shane and Maltese Falcon come to mind.
Terrific character actors like the oft mentioned Strother Martin did get leads but often in the like of the infamous Ssssssss and still they are really extended "character" parts.George Kennedy is a "character actor" who became well known and continued in the supporting category but remained a "character" type.

Anyway ... it may be just semantics and definitions...


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Yes, Byrdz, and especially in the studio age and just after. Some major stars began as character actors, going back to Lon Chaney and Victor McLaglen, then Wallace Beery, Humphrey Bogart and many others afterwards, through Jack Palance and Lee Marvin and Rod Steiger.

Then there are those who rather teeter on the edge of character actor and star, especially those who had careers on the stage prior to appearing in movies. I think of Walter Huston. Some much beloved (or "beloved") character actors enjoyed modest starring careers on the side, as it were: Claude Rains, Thomas Mitchell and Charles Coburn.

Then there are stars who became character actors as they aged, such as Harry Carey and Charles Bickford. Some cases are quite unique, such as that of Broderick Crawford, a modestly successful character player "catapulted" into stardom, and an Academy award in the bargain, only to slip back into character parts in a relatively short period of time.

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Largely semantics and interpretation of the terms.

Wiki Definition time :
"A character actor or actress is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters. The term, often contrasted with that of leading actor, is somewhat abstract and open to interpretation. In a literal sense, all actors can be considered character actors since they all play "characters", but in the usual sense it is an actor who plays a distinctive and important supporting role."

"A character actor is a supporting actor skilled at playing distinctly unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters, such that they are "almost unrecognizable from part to part, and yet play many, many roles convincingly and memorably."


As such I see Mary Astor as a lead actress who played mostly leading or supporting roles and not the "typical" character parts.

Ben Johnson as a character actor who got to play a few supporting but still character parts.

Teetering on the edge of a sometimes fine line as once they (Bogart / Cagney type stars) became "stars" they may have become supporting but not really "character" actors as described in the second definition. Lesser lights in the Cinema Firmament could more easily return to their "character" roots.

"Abstract and open to interpretation" pretty much sums it up for me.







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Mary Astor won an Oscar for her superb performance in THE GREAT LIE and was excellent as the mother of 5 Smith children (including Judy Garland) in MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS. She was also warmly maternal in LITTLE WOMEN (1949).

Mona Washbourne won accolades for her touching performance in STEVIE (1978).

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Scatman Crothers in The Shining

Andy Devine in The Man who shot Liberty Valance

Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif in One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest.

Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein

Jane Darwel in The Ox Bow Incident

What the hell Eli-Tuco?


Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif in One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest.


Eli-Tuco - I got a big laugh out of your post. To say that the only standout roles in the careers of Danny De Vito, Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif were in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is as laughable as it is ludiocrous, and paints you as either chronically ill-informed or as senile and stupid as the CFB's infamous elderly wino and serial reporter snsurone.

Perhaps you haven't heard of them or seen them, but actor/ director/producer Danny De Vito - who has been nominated for six Golden Globes (winning for TAXI) and five Emmys (wining for TAXI has co-starred, or played large supporting roles, in the likes of L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, THE RAINMAKER, MAN ON THE MOON , BATMAN RETURNS, TWINS, RUTHLESS PEOPLE, THROW MOMMA OFF THE TRAIN, JACK THE BEAR, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, ROMANCING THE STONE, THE JEWEL OF THE NILE and GET SHORTY as well as starring in the smash hit TV series' TAXI and IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA (now in its 14th season). He has has had one hell of a successful career as a director, a producer and a star.

Three-time Emmy award winner Christopher LLoyd co-starred in BACK TO THE FUTURE, BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 11 and BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 111 - three of the biggest box office success's of all time, as well as co-starring with Danny De Vito in the aforementioned TV series TAXI.

Brad Dourif - who received an Oscasr nomination for his performance in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, starred as Hazel Motes in John Huston's brilliant screen version of Flannery O'Connors WISE BLOOD, c-starred in RAGTIME, had major roles in MISSISSIPPI BURNING, HEAVEN'S GATE, EYES OF LAURA MARS and David Lynch's DUNE, played the voice of Chucky in the lucrative CHILD'S PLAY movies, co-starred in ALIEN RESURRECTION, played Sheriff Lee Brackett in Rod Zombie's successful remake of HALLOWEEN, played Wormtongue in THE LORD OF THE RINGS movies and co-starred - as Doc Cochran - in the outstanding, critically acclaimed Cable-TV western series DEADWOOD, co-starred in Dario Argento's TRAUMA and played a major character role in Spike Lee's JUNGLE FEVER.

Danny De Vito is a star, and Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif are extremely successful, well known character actors who have had lengthy and varied careers.

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Herbert Mundin-- in many films, but probably best-remembered for his touching performance as Much the Miller's son in "The Adventures of Robin Hood."

Gavin Gordon-- many small parts, but stands out as Lord Byron in "Bride of Frankenstein." He played the lead opposite Garbo in "Romance" in 1930, but quickly went into character actor work, or played second leads.

Lionel Belmore as the Burgomaster in "Frankenstein;" E.E. Clive as the Burgomaster in "Bride of Frankenstein."

Onslow Stevens-- a dependable smart-part actor-- excellent as the lead, Dr. Edelman, in "House of Dracula." He is the center of the film, and gives a wonderful performance.

Jessie Royce Landis-- as Cary Grant's mother in "North By Northwest." She is a riot in that film-- and in real life, only a few years older than Cary.

Ian MacLaren-- played very small roles in a number of 1930s movies, but was a standout as Lt. Osborne-- known as "Uncle"-- in "Journey's End." On the basis of that wonderful performance, he should have had bigger parts and a better career.

Frank Reicher--so many movies, most memorable as Captain Englehorn of the "Venture" in "King Kong." "Kong" defined so many careers, including stars Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot.

Ona Munson-- an all-purpose actress who achieved immortality as Belle Watling in "Gone With the Wind"-- and unfortunately found herself typecast forever after in similar parts. Butterfly McQueen, Laura Hope Crews, and many others in this film also had career-defining roles in it.

Norman Lloyd-- a wonderful actor, I think most notable for his role as the German saboteur hanging off the Statue of Liberty in "Saboteur."

Lots of actors had some of their best-ever roles in Orson Welles movies, starting with "Citizen Kane"-- Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, Paul Stewart, etc. Dorothy Comingore is remembered only for her role in this.

Keye Luke and Victor Sen Yung as No. 1 and 2 sons in Charlie Chan films. Both actors were good in other movies-- Sen Yung in "The Letter," Luke as Mr. Wong, etc., but they stand out with Charlie.

Dennis Price-- had many second-lead and character parts, but was unforgettable as Louis, at war with the D'Ascoynes in "Kind Hearts and Coronets."




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I like your choices, Pitcairn. Another one that just came to mind: Angus Lennie as Ives, the impatient little Scots fellow who leaps rather than waits in The Great Escape.

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He's a great choice, telegonus-- a very touching performance. Another film with career-defining roles-- for character actors and stars. I know whenever I see McQueen, Garner, Attenborough, Pleasance, James Donald, Coburn, and Bronson, I immediately think of this film.

Escapes & Mockingbirds

Thanks, Pitcairn. While I'm at it,--and still awake at this ungodly hour--I feel compelled to mention a Great Escape actor whose performance I find touching also,--and it might seem like an odd one on the surface--Hannes Messemer as the camp's kommandant (sp?), Von Luger. His facial expressions, his eyes especially, tell the viewer that this is a man doing a job he doesn't like for a government (the Third Reich) he doesn't care for, and yet I don't think he ever comes out and says as much. There's compassion in the man's face, and Messemer conveys his character's mute ambivalence beautifully.

Before going: another great performance by an actor not well known that helps sell the movie: James Anderson's as the hateful Robert E. Lee "Bob" Ewell in To Kill A Mockingbird. The man steals every scene he's in and is scarier than most movie monsters. Worse yet (or better,--for the actor, I mean)--we can see his chip on the shoulder insecurity, his meanness and hate coming not from rational thought but ignorance. Apparently the actor himself had a few things in common with the character he was playing, and doing a grand job of it too. I've seen Anderson do good work in other films, and he had more range than one might think, but nothing he did can top his baleful performance as Bob Ewell.

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Good call on Mr. Messemer, telegonus. I think there is a last scene of him, after the escape, when he is being taken away? To the Russian front, by the Gestapo-- at any rate, to a place worse than the camp. I seem to recall that same look in his eyes-- that he isn't a willing party to the actions of the Third Reich, and he understands that his fate is to lose in the end.

An actor in another military movie springs to mind-- Philip Ober-- who gave two memorable performances in his career. First as the mean, bullying CO in "From Here to Eternity"-- he unsuccessfully pressures Montgomery Clift into boxing again-- while, in a form of divine justice, his wife Deborah Kerr cheats on him with Burt Lancaster. Second as Lester Townsend, the guy who gets stabbed at the U.N., falling into Cary Grant's arms just as reporters'cameras go off, recording the whole thing for the police, public, and bad guys, and setting Grant off on the run in "North By Northwest." Those are two pretty iconic roles, especially the latter one-- which only lasts for about two minutes. Mr. Ober was married at that time to Vivian Vance of "I Love Lucy" fame, and appeared on that show a few times. According to imdb, he at different times had careers in advertising and with the U.S. Foreign Service/Embassies-- perfect real-life Central Casting.



The Turk

Philip Ober was a fine actor, had a mixed career. He was also in,--though hardly iconically--the Don Knotts comedy, my favorite of his, The Ghost And Mr. Chicken . That was a funny, atmosphere picture which went to show there was still life on the Uni back lot, feature film life, I mean, as late as 1966. A nice picture of small town Middle American life, at times strangely reminiscent of The Music Man (maybe it's the feeling of innocence), that makes it, for some of us, nostalgic as well as funny.

Worth a mention: Al Lettieri, who appeared in some decent films in his too short career, as the conniving, two-faced Sollozzo, known as the Turk, in The Godfather. His use of urbanity can really get under your skin, especially in the light of the way he snarls when he takes down Big Luca. Speaking of which, I think it's fair to say that ex-professional wrestler Lenny Montana earned a kind of screen immortality as Luca Brasi in that film. Like Lettieri, his use of his face was noteworthy, and his image overall lingers in the mind long after the movie is over.

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I think that there is always a bit of poignancy when a character actor or a bit-part player gets the role of their lives towards the end of their life. Two examples below.

KATIE JOHNSON flitted on and off screen for all of her career in bit parts. Then just be fore she dies she gets the plum role of Mrs Wilberforce in 'The Ladykillers' (1955).

ANNE RAMSAY got Oscar-nominated for playing Danny De Vito's mother in 'Throw Mamma Off The Train' in her very best role. And then she too dies.

DARWIN JOSTON - "Got a smoke?"

Darwin Joston - who died of cancer in 1998, made his television debut in 1967 after appearing in various New York stage productions for about five years. He didn't have much of a career. But in 1976 he starred in John Carpenter's incendiary cult classic ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, delivering a tough, witty, unforgettable performance as Napoleon Wilson, the Death-Row bound convict who makes a stand (alongwith Austin Stoker - as Lt. Ethan Bishop, Laurie Zimmer - Leigh, and Tony Burton - Wells) when a Los Angeles gang lay siege to a nearly deserted police station in the dead of night.

Darwin Joston's Napoleon Wilson in ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 was destined to be the rugged actor's one starring role, and boy did he deliver the goods. I first saw this tense, exhilirating film - a virtual remake of Howard Hawks' RIO BRAVO which also pays homage to classics like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST and RED RIVER, in Cape Town in 1978 (when it was unbanned in South Africa) and I have never forgotten the movie and Joston's marvelous, one-of-a-kind performance. Who can ever forget his famous line: "Got a smoke?"

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In my situation, days are like women - each one's so damn precious, but they all end up leaving you. - Darwin Joston as Napoleon Wilson in Assault on Precinct 13.

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Timothy Carey in The Killing

Richard Mulligan in Little Big Man

Patrick Magee was used very well by Stanley Kubrick in Barry Lyndon and Clockwork Orange

James Gregory in The Manchurian Candidate

Chief Dan George - in 2 - Little Big Man and Outlaw Josey Wales

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R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket



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Great responses, everyone. They read like a curtain call for a lot of unsung and forgotten character actors.

Has anyone mentioned

Philip Dorn as the Father in I Remember Mama

Stanley Ridges as the Jekyll-Hyde Professor/gangster in Black Friday.

Robert Cornthwaite as Professor Carrington in The Thing From Another World

Ann Savage, the hitchhiker from Hell, in Detour

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Great call on Robert Cornthwaite. His performance as Carrington is so strong on the basis of it one might have predicted a major career for the actor, not the sub-Whit Bissell one he had.

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Robert Cornthwaite as Professor Carrington in The Thing From Another World


I am utterly kicking myself for not thinking of Robert Cornthwaite!


Wilfrid Brambell as Paul McCartney's grandfather in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT.

Ann Doran as James Dean's mother in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.

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Unless I blinked and missed it: Ernest Thesiger as Dr. Praetorious in Bride Of Frankenstein

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Lee Strasberg in Godfather 2. For years he taught acting and finally showed us what he could do with a small role.

Chuck Connors: Best known for his heroic, single father, farmer/gunfighter role in TVs "The Rifleman", he was cast against type as the cowardly bully in "The Big Country".

Cathy Burns, so good in "Last Summer", made one more movie then dropped out of sight forever.
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