Name the Actor...

[2jakes]

Name the actor !
Rarely smiled in the films he made in the 40s film noir classics with Bogie.

 

[HanauMan]

I won't spoil the fun by naming him but he was actually a good actor and eventually went 'where no man has gone before'!

 

[HanauMan]

Ok, he is a very young Elisha Cook Jr. who, in later years, played a lawyer defending a certain Capt. Kirk.

I always had a liking for the support actors in many of older films and Elisha Cook Jr. was one of the best. I liked his character better than I liked Bogarts character in the Maltese Falcon.

Talking of support actors, name this one. Again, he played in many movies and should be a well known face, if not name.

Here he is (right), ably supporting the great Jack Palance in the classic Panic in the Streets (1950).

(Hint: he deserves a higher ranking than his name may suggest!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

He refused to name names and told the HUAC in so many words where it could go. He was a hero, not a zero.

 

[OldStrummer]

Who doesn't know Gene Wilder?

How about his co-star?

 

[Benzadmiral]

Talking of support actors, name this one. Again, he played in many movies and should be a well known face, if not name.

Here he is (right), ably supporting the great Jack Palance in the classic Panic in the Streets (1950).

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(Hint: he deserves a higher ranking than his name may suggest!)

That film is the one I point to when people ask what it was like growing up in the French Quarter in the early Sixties. "It looked a lot like that."

 

[Benzadmiral]

Who doesn't know Gene Wilder?

How about his co-star?

Marty Feldman! The last word in Igors!

 

[OldStrummer]

Marty Feldman! The last word in Igors!

Pronounced, "Eye-gor!"

 

[2jakes]

Can you name this balloon-popping actor?

The movie and who was he trying to convince that his plan was perfect ?

 

[HanauMan]

It is Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train. And a young Farley Granger.

Hard to believe that Robert Walker was only about 30 or so in this film as he looks older.

 

[2jakes]

It is Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train. And a young Farley Granger.

Hard to believe that Robert Walker was only about 30 or so in this film as he looks older.

Best known for this role, he died at 32. He suffered from alcoholism and mental illness, which was
exacerbated by a painful separation and divorce from actress Jennifer Jones.

 

[2jakes]

You’ve seen me in Casablanca, The Grapes of Wrath and Shane.
I play character actors with a certain accent.
What’s my name?​

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ John Qualen. Would not have gotten it (if I did get it right) without the "Casablanca" hint. But he looks like "Berger" to me (and I had to look his real name up).

 

[LizzieMaine]

You know this man from just about everywhere. Whenever there was a reporter, a press agent, a petty bureaucrat, an unsympathetic authority figure, or an annoyed face in the crowd, there's a good chance it was this guy. He lived to be 102, and he kept acting to the end of his life.

 

[3fingers]

^^ I remember him from Bewitched, among other things.

 

[2jakes]

Whenever you saw a Gary Cooper or
Jimmy Stewart early film...this character was always around with
a dead-pan froggy voice.

Rare photo of him smiling!

With Harold Lloyd in “Professor Beware” 1938.
A favorite because of the “woody” station
wagon driven by Lloyd.

 

[ChiTownScion]

You know this man from just about everywhere. Whenever there was a reporter, a press agent, a petty bureaucrat, an unsympathetic authority figure, or an annoyed face in the crowd, there's a good chance it was this guy. He lived to be 102, and he kept acting to the end of his life.

Charles Lane.

And despite the fact that his characters were pretty irritating, he was actually a warm and funny guy in real life.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Whenever you saw a Gary Cooper or
Jimmy Stewart early film...this character was always around with
a dead-pan froggy voice.
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Rare photo of him smiling!

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With Harold Lloyd in “Professor Beware” 1938.
A favorite because of the “woody” station
wagon driven by Lloyd.

That would be one of my heroes. Lionel Stander, who not only refused to grovel before the HUAC, he shoved the Constitution down their throat and made them like it.

 

[2jakes]

Began in silent era. Slim and athletic, he found frequent work in westerns
and epics as in "Birth of a Nation" & “Intolerance" by D. W. Griffith.

His unique voice placed him in greater demand when talkies
took over.



Hint: Friar Tuck in 1938!

 

[Fading Fast]

Began in silent era. Slim and athletic, he found frequent work in westerns
and epics as in "Birth of a Nation" & “Intolerance" by D. W. Griffith.
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His unique voice placed him in greater demand when talkies
took over.



Hint: Friar Tuck in 1938!

Eugene Pallette - one of Lizzie and my favorites, but it took the Friar Tuck hint first to jar my memory and, then, I saw the young Pallette in the pic you posted.