Favorite character actors
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Shug Fisher was a member of the Sons of the Pioneers along with Ken "Festus" Curtis. He actually appeared on Gunsmoke 22 times.
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Seems like he played the town drunk on Gunsmoke and he did it well.chickenman62 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 2:32 pm Shug Fisher was a member of the Sons of the Pioneers along with Ken "Festus" Curtis. He actually appeared on Gunsmoke 22 times.
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Saw one of my favorite character actors in The Big Sleep on TCM yesterday. Elisha Cook Jr. had a 60+ year career in film and television in all sorts of roles, from psychopathic gangsters to westerns and comedies. Probably best know for his roles as a gangster gunman in 21 film noirs (he played Sidney Greenstreet’s smarmy psycho gunman “Wilmer”, in The Maltese Falcon for example).
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Another one. Frank Ferguson was in hundreds of movies and television appearances.
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Earl Holliman died yesterday. I remember him for his work in a lot of westerns as well as other movies and tv.
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He was one of the"Sons of Katie Elder"OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 12:00 pm Earl Holliman died yesterday. I remember him for his work in a lot of westerns as well as other movies and tv.
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He had the Earl Holliman Theater in San Antonio for a while.peanut740 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:54 pmHe was one of the"Sons of Katie Elder"OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 12:00 pm Earl Holliman died yesterday. I remember him for his work in a lot of westerns as well as other movies and tv.
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OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 12:00 pm Earl Holliman died yesterday. I remember him for his work in a lot of westerns as well as other movies and tv.
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Anthony Caruso played Mexicans, Indians, Italian gangsters and everything in between.
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Here are two more, Dabbs Greer and Karl Swenson.
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I was watching an Andy Griffith episode and kept trying to place one of the guest actors. I did a search and it was Jesse White. In addition to movie and television series appearances, he was also the "Maytag repairman" for 21 years.
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Good catch Ike,
Being the Maytag repairman for so long allowed him to peruse other things with all of his time.
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Karl Otto Alberty. Had a long career with many roles but often typecast as a German army officer.
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James Drury in The Virginian has always been one of my favorites. And who doesn’t like Trampas aka Doug McClure
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I was checking out an old Clark Gable movie on TCM, and Thomas Mitchell was in the cast. I don't think that he has been mentioned here, aka "Uncle Billy".
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