Actors and/or Actresses you miss

Popbumper · #1 06-16-2011, 08:47 PM

In some of the threads today folks were discussing "cheesy old songs that were their favorites"...which got me to thinking about old movies.

This is not a movie thread per se, but one which asks "what actor and/or actress did you enjoy seeing in film(s), and that you miss now"? (name one from the top of your head).

The only criterion I ask is that:
1) They are still living but are no longer active in film
2) Name two or three films they were in that you enjoyed
3) Tell what their role(s) were/who else well known they starred with

My choice:
Rutger Hauer - a consummate powerful figure, seems he was not in films long but he was very believable and captured his characters well.

Films I enjoyed seeing him in:
a) Ladyhawke (as a medieval warrior/with Michelle Pfieffer)
b) Nighthawks (as a terrorist/with Sylvester Stallone)
c) Blade Runner (as a ruthless genetic experiment/with Harrison Ford)

Have Fun!

Chris

EBodious · #2 06-16-2011, 08:50 PM

i miss naomi watts. i look for her each nite in my bed, but seem to miss her every time.

why naomi? why are you so elusive?

EagleMoon · #3 06-16-2011, 10:34 PM

I can think of lots of them. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne, William Powell, Spencer Tracy...to name a few. They just don't make actors like they used to, unless they're British.

American actors seem to be mostly interested in how they look, rather than how well they can act. And that goes for the entire entertainment industry, especially in the last 10 years.

Bob Lee (QSC) · #4 06-17-2011, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Popbumper

My choice:
Rutger Hauer - a consummate powerful figure, seems he was not in films long but he was very believable and captured his characters well.

Films I enjoyed seeing him in:
a) Ladyhawke (as a medieval warrior/with Michelle Pfieffer)
b) Nighthawks (as a terrorist/with Sylvester Stallone)
c) Blade Runner (as a ruthless genetic experiment/with Harrison Ford)

Look for "The Soldier of Orange." That was a very good one.

fhm555 · #5 06-17-2011, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Popbumper

...My choice:
Rutger Hauer...

Not a big Rutger Hauer fan here, although he did his part in making Blade Runner one of my all time favorite flicks, but his best, or at least the best I've ever seen him, was in Blood Of Heroes.

It took real fuzzy nutz to be a Jugger.

Ursus Tyrannus · #6 06-17-2011, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Popbumper

1) They are still living but are no longer active in film

My choice:
Rutger Hauer

Dont count the big man down yet...

YouTube - ‪Hobo With A Shotgun (2011) - Unrated Trailer [HD]‬&rlm;

I cant wait!

Besides, hes been in like 30 movies, 5 made for TV movies and guest spots on a number of TV series since 2000 alone. Granted a lot of those movies were international markets (he does live in the Netherlands) but the majority were starring roles and the dude was in The Rite, Batman Begins and Sin City and he was Kurt Barlow in the 2004 Salem's Lot.

Not that I'm Hauer fan boy or nothin.

Ursus Tyrannus · #7 06-17-2011, 02:48 AM

Oh yea...

Phil Hartman

He had a lot of small roles in movies but it was his work on SNL, The Simpsons, and News Radio that made me a big fan.
He had so many years ahead of him, one can only wonder at at how many great roles.

Big_Daddy · #8 06-17-2011, 06:03 AM

Chris Farley. There wasn't enough Farley material that he left us.

SNL (Chris Farley's dating guide with Tom Arnold = priceless)
Black Sheep
Dirty Work
Billy Madison
Beverly Hills Ninja
it goes on and on.

Also, John Candy. Uncle Buck is definitely in my top ten.

Phalex · #9 06-17-2011, 06:17 AM

Pee Wee Herman.

Jim Nazium · #10 06-17-2011, 07:38 AM

He's a comedian, not an actor, but how about Dave Chapelle? His show was f'ing hilarious, and I think it was only on for two seasons.

I'm Rick James, b!tch.

Darth Handsome · #11 06-17-2011, 07:46 AM

I bawled like a baby when John Ritter died. No one made me laugh like that guy did. No one.

bigtexashonk · #12 06-17-2011, 08:11 AM

Zero Mostel - The Producers w/Gene Wilder

Clark Dark · #13 06-17-2011, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Nazium

He's a comedian, not an actor, but how about Dave Chapelle? His show was f'ing hilarious, and I think it was only on for two seasons.

I'm Rick James, b!tch.

LOL...yeah but Dave was in Con Air, and Half Baked and Robin Hood, men in tights too, made me laugh so hard in The Nutty Professor when he said that Prof. Clump was on that new diet, "slim slow"

powderfinger · #14 06-17-2011, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Popbumper

1) They are still living but are no longer active in film

Bill Murray (no longer active in films that are actually funny)
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2) Name two or three films they were in that you enjoyed

Stripes
Where the Buffalo Roam
Ghostbusters

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3) Tell what their role(s) were/who else well known they starred with

Witty, dry humored private in the Army (Harold Ramis, John Candy, Judge Reinhold)
witty, dry humored version of Hunter Thompson (Peter Boyle)
witty, dry humored ghost hunter (Dan Akyroyd, Ernie Hudson, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigorney Weaver)

Popbumper · #15 06-17-2011, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by powderfinger

Bill Murray (no longer active in films that are actually funny)

Stripes
Where the Buffalo Roam
Ghostbusters

Witty, dry humored private in the Army (Harold Ramis, John Candy, Judge Reinhold)
witty, dry humored version of Hunter Thompson (Peter Boyle)
witty, dry humored ghost hunter (Dan Akyroyd, Ernie Hudson, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigorney Weaver)[/quote]

Don't get me started, I'll quote almost all of Caddyshack for you.....which to me was his BEST role, as Carl Spackler. Bill was my absolute favorite (as far as comedies). On the other hand, he has recently been seen in Lost in Translation and Zombieland - not really funny films as you said.

Chris

powderfinger · #16 06-17-2011, 09:06 AM

Bill Murray is definitely my favorite comedy actor of all time. His cameo in Zombie Land was clever and pretty funny. Broken Flowers was ok.

But Lost In Translation, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Royal Tennenbaums is all trash.. BORING trash.

Popbumper · #17 06-17-2011, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by powderfinger

Bill Murray is definitely my favorite comedy actor of all time. His cameo in Zombie Land was clever and pretty funny. Broken Flowers was ok.

But Lost In Translation, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Royal Tennenbaums is all trash.. BORING trash.

It's a shame because now he is being utilized for more serious roles; I guess to draw more people the comedian edge has to be a "younger face" nowadays. Remember Bill's early serious effort - "Razor's Edge" - and how bad it bombed?

Lost in Translation was interesting - I'll give it that. Not a great film, kind of a sad and downtrodden overtone.

Darth Handsome · #18 06-17-2011, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by powderfinger

Bill Murray is definitely my favorite comedy actor of all time. His cameo in Zombie Land was clever and pretty funny. Broken Flowers was ok.

But Lost In Translation, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Royal Tennenbaums is all trash.. BORING trash.

I really liked Lost in Translation. I bought their friendship & I thought she did a great job of showing how lonely those characters were.

powderfinger · #19 06-17-2011, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Darth Handsome

I really liked Lost in Translation. I bought their friendship & I thought she did a great job of showing how lonely those characters were.

I tried to like that movie. It was just too boring and slow paced for my tastes, really. I did like the scene where Bill was singing Elvis Costello at karaoke though.

Darth Handsome · #20 06-17-2011, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by powderfinger

I tried to like that movie. It was just too boring and slow paced for my tastes, really. I did like the scene where Bill was singing Elvis Costello at karaoke though.

Low key, certainly. But I was never bored. The characters spoke to me more than they did you, I suppose.