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Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2024 2:32 pm
by chickenman62
Shug Fisher was a member of the Sons of the Pioneers along with Ken "Festus" Curtis. He actually appeared on Gunsmoke 22 times.
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2024 3:03 pm
by Paladin
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.
Seems like he played the town drunk on Gunsmoke and he did it well.
Ray
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2024 3:46 pm
by Mumbleypeg
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).
Ken
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:10 am
by Mumbleypeg
Another one. Frank Ferguson was in hundreds of movies and television appearances.
Ken
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 12:00 pm
by OLDE CUTLER
Earl Holliman died yesterday. I remember him for his work in a lot of westerns as well as other movies and tv.
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:54 pm
by peanut740
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.
He was one of the"Sons of Katie Elder"
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 4:35 pm
by Paladin
peanut740 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:54 pm
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.
He was one of the"Sons of Katie Elder"
He had the Earl Holliman Theater in San Antonio for a while.
Ray
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:02 pm
by Mumbleypeg
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.
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:08 pm
by chickenman62
Anthony Caruso played Mexicans, Indians, Italian gangsters and everything in between.
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 8:24 pm
by chickenman62
Here are two more, Dabbs Greer and Karl Swenson.
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Fri May 22, 2026 11:00 pm
by Waukonda
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.
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Sun May 24, 2026 5:59 pm
by LKSKNIVES
Waukonda wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2026 11:00 pm
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.
Good catch Ike,
Being the Maytag repairman for so long allowed him to peruse other things with all of his time.
Steve
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Mon May 25, 2026 3:21 pm
by Mumbleypeg
Karl Otto Alberty. Had a long career with many roles but often typecast as a German army officer.
Ken
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Mon May 25, 2026 10:50 pm
by Runner 4 Knives
James Drury in The Virginian has always been one of my favorites. And who doesn’t like Trampas aka Doug McClure
Re: Favorite character actors
Posted: Tue May 26, 2026 2:17 pm
by Waukonda
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".