Your Favorite Character Actors

[JackBauer]

Carl Winslow!

Al Powell dammit!!

 

[mister Lennon]

I think that a character actor is an actor who could play any role. People like Schwarzennegger couldnt be a character actor because they play the same role in every movie.

Willem Dafoe could be a character actor. Gary oldman too. John Hurt too. Alfred Molina too.

 

[thealiasman2000]

I'll try to group them.

Best evil villains:

-Christopher Lee

-Bela Lugosi

-Boris Karloff

-Lon Chaney

-Lon Chaney Jr.

-John Carradine

-Brad Dourif

-Jack Nicholson

-Gary Oldman


Best wacky, noisy, stereotypical black guys:

-Eddie Murphy

-Chris Rock

-Chris Tucker

-Martin Lawrence

-Will Smith

-the Wayan Brothers

Best action heroes:

-Will Smith

-Sylvester Stallone

-Arnold Schwarzenegger

-Vin Diesel

-The Rock

-Jean-Claude Van Damme

-Steven Seagal

-Bruce Willis

-Dolph Lungrend

Best insane martial artists:

-Bruce Lee

-Jackie Chan

-Chow-Yun Fat

-Jet Li

Best mobsters:

-Robert DeNiro

-Chazz Palmintieri

-Joe Pesci

-Joe Viterello

-James Gandolfini

Best sexual fantasies:

-J.J. North

-Sharon Stone

-Nicole Kidman

-Daryl Hannah

-Anita Eckberg

-Kate Beckinsale

-Pamela Anderson

-Anna Nicole Smith

-Heather Graham

 

[The Chairman]

Jack Nicholson
Al Pacino
Robert De Niro
Gary Oldman
Tim Roth
Johnny Depp
Bill Paxton
John Goodman
John Turtorro
Willem Dafoe
Steve Buscemi
Michael Beihn
Brad Dourif
Eric Stoltz
James Woods
Sean Penn
Kevin Bacon
Chris Penn
Ozzie Davis
Alan Rickman
Wayne Knight
Christopher Walken
John Leguizamo
Jim Broadbent
Michael Rooker
Christopher Lloyd
Will Patton
John Hurt
Alfred Molina
Meryl Streep
Sigourney Weaver
Michelle Pfeiffer

 

[mister Lennon]

Sorry, the question of the thread is about what actors could play any character or what actors are better in some kind of role( gangster, villain, action hero, etc)?

 

[Eddie Dean]

Gary Oldman
Tim Roth
Brad Dourif
John Malkovich
Morgan Freeman
Sam Rockwell
John C. Reilly
Geoffrey Rush

 

[The Chairman]

Some more favorites:

Sam Neill
Lance Henriksen
John Malkovich (thanks for reminding me, Eddie Dean)
Christian Bale
Billy Crudup
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Brian Cox
Jeff Bridges
Jeff Daniels
Ray Liotta
Vincent Schiavelli
Claude Raines
Anthony Hopkins
Bob Hoskins
Timothy Spall
Tim Curry
Geoffrey Rush (again, thanks for reminding me, Eddie Dean)
Ian Holm
Sean Bean
Hugo Weaving
Ewan McGregor
Michael Clarke Duncan
Tom Hanks
Sally Field

 

[Asr]

Some of my faves:

- Joe Pantoliano
- Gary Oldman
- Liam Neeson
- Tom Wilkinson
- Woody Harrelson
- Willem Dafoe
- Ed Harris
- Ed Norton
- Kevin Spacey
- Sean Bean
- Charlize Theron
- Famke Janssen
- Naomi Watts
- Joan Allen
- Catherine Zeta-Jones

 

[Assassin32]

Tom Sizemore.

 

[AdamTheWatchmen]

I want to make a movie with David Keith and Keith David so you could have a really wicked poster... HAHAHAHHAA

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

where the hell is the love for Reginald VelJohnson?!

I guess Urkel obliterated it.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Johnny Depp.

 

[thealiasman2000]

But the prizse HAS To go to Mike Myers.

Most actors can do one,perhaps two characters each. Myers can play half of the cast of a movie all by himself.

 

[mister Lennon]

Alec Guinnes or Peter Sellers could do the same.

 

[BizarroAids]

Greg Kinnear
Gary Oldman
Bruce Davidson
Will Patton
Hank Azaria

 

[Danger Mouse]

But the prizse HAS To go to Mike Myers.

Most actors can do one,perhaps two characters each. Myers can play half of the cast of a movie all by himself.

So can Eddie Murphy. But I wouldn't categorise him as a character actor.