Unusual favorite roles in movies and TV

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Kirk Douglas as The Villain.

Lee Marvin as Kid Shaleen

Sylvester Stallone as Spats Provalone

Charley Chan as Shanghai Moon

John Wayne in North To Alaka

Willian Powell as My Man Godfrey 

Sean Connery in Darby O'Gill

[Blackwater 53393]

George Carlin in Streets of Laredo!

 

Scatman Crothers in The Shootist 

 

 

[Alpo]

17 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Charley Chan as Shanghai Moon

I believe you mean Jackie Chan

[Alpo]

James Caan as Big Ed Deline in Las Vegas.

Twice during the run of the show people made comments about The Godfather, and he said he had never seen it. One episode he was going to Iran on a Canadian passport made out to Alan Trehearne.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 8/6/2024 at 6:04 PM, Alpo said:

I believe you mean Jackie Chan

OOOOOPS!

 

Would you believe me if said I was just seeing if anyone was paying attention?

 

Didn't think so because I wouldn't buy that either.  .

[J-BAR #18287]

Richard Boone as Cicero Grimes in "Hombre", and John Fain in "Big Jake".

 

Geez, he was a delicious villain!

 

 

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

13 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Richard Boone as Cicero Grimes in "Hombre", and John Fain in "Big Jake".

 

Geez, he was a delicious villain!

 

 

Boone a great villain also in The Tall T, one of the Budd Boetticher movies with Randolph Scott.

[J-BAR #18287]

11 minutes ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:

Boone a great villain also in The Tall T, one of the Budd Boetticher movies with Randolph Scott.

Yes!

 

 I have that Boetticher DVD collection,  probably never get my money out of it, but I love riding my exercise bike while watching those great Randolph Scott movies!!

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

And like Hombre, The Tall T was an Elmore Leonard story (published as The Captive).....

[J-BAR #18287]

9 minutes ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:

And like Hombre, The Tall T was an Elmore Leonard story (published as The Captive).....

Good stories never get old!

 

...Mr. Leonard's "Fire In The Hole" gave us "Justified"!

 

 

 

 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

James Arness in McClains Law 

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

2 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Good stories never get old!

 

...Mr. Leonard's "Fire In The Hole" gave us "Justified"!

 I think that Leonard's stories were made into more movies and TV shows than anyone else's, except maybe Shakespeare"s. Around 25.

Probably because he wrote both great Westerns and crime stories.

A few:

The Tall T; Joe Kidd, 3:10 to Yuma (two movies), Hombre, Valdez is Coming, Last Stand at Saber River, Mr. Majestic, Get Shorty, Be Cool, Jackie Brown [Rum Punch], 52 Pick Up, and several others, including Justified, as JBar said.

Amazingly productive man.

 

 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

3 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

George Carlin in Streets of Laredo!

 

Scatman Crothers in The Shootist 

 

 

 

How 'bout George Carlin as The Conductor on "Thomas the Tank Engine?"  

 

https://i.imgur.com/i9xWl5x.mp4

[Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L]

Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate

 

Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Chief Dan George in almost everything he was in.

 

[Blackwater 53393]

Arthur Hunnycut in ‘bout any movie or tv show he appeared in!

 

Same with Hank Worden!!

[Tooky Slim]

Dennis Hopper in Red Rock West...he was the best psyco villains

[watab kid]

raymond burr [perry mason] as a villan and i cant recall the movie but he was believable 

[DeaconKC]

15 minutes ago, watab kid said:

raymond burr [perry mason] as a villan and i cant recall the movie but he was believable 

Rear Window, and yeah, he was creepy.

Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

4 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Arthur Hunnycut in ‘bout any movie or tv show he appeared in!

 

Same with Hank Worden!!

Now there's a pair to draw to.  Thanks. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Donald Pleasance as Oracle Jones.

[watab kid]

1 hour ago, DeaconKC said:

Rear Window, and yeah, he was creepy.

Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear

wow - thats it , he was creepy , and yes robert mitchum was equally if not more creepy in cape fear , that one gave me a couple bad dreams when my kids were young , 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

2 hours ago, watab kid said:

raymond burr [perry mason] as a villan and i cant recall the movie but he was believable 

 

How 'bout Raymond Burr as American reporter Steve Martin in the 1956 original Godzilla movie, "Godzilla - King of the Monsters!"    

 

 

 

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Robin Williams in "One Hour Photo".

 

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Or John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conquerers".

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

And speaking of Khan..
Ricardo Montalbán in
Star Trek: Wrath of Khan

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

20 hours ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said:

Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate

 

Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd

 

 

Lansbury was so convincing that I had a hard time turning my head around.  She was always such a nice lady.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Raquel Welch as Walks Far Woman.  Very convincing and based on an actual character.

[Smokin Gator SASS #29736]

Javier Barden in No Country For Old Men. The psychopathic killer. My wife doesn't watch many movies but she said he was the scariest person she'd ever seen.

Coincidentally I just read an article about movies with bad killers in them. A group of psychiatrists or psychologists watched 400 movies and identified 125 killers as psychopaths. They concluded that Bardens portrayal was the most accurate of a true psychopath.  For what it's worth.

[Rye Miles #13621]

Leonard Nimoy as Indian John Walking in Gunsmoke

 Also Yellow Bear in Wagon Train

[punxsutawneypete]

Gary Cooper in Sgt. York.

[Cypress Sun]

Murder in Coweta County, a made for tv movie.

 

Andy Griffith as a killer who pistol whips a man to death and Johnny Cash as the sheriff trying to catch him.

I was somewhat shocked that Andy Griffith was a cold blooded killer.

[Sawhorse Kid]

Brad Dourif:  Doc Cochran - Deadwood Series

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

And Fred MacMurray played a lot of villains before My Three Sons  and  various Disney movies.

 

Similar to Lesley Nielson, a movie heavy before the comedies...

[Rye Miles #13621]

4 hours ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:

And Fred MacMurray played a lot of villains before My Three Sons  and  various Disney movies.

 

Similar to Lesley Nielson, a movie heavy before the comedies...

He also played in Caine Mutiny alongside Humphrey Bogart.