Tonight a bunch of us were talking about favorite actors (actresses???) and someone brought up William H Macy. We were kind of ho hum and then he told us his favorite WHM movies:
Fargo
Magnolia
Thank You for Smoking
Boogie Nights
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Pleasantville
Seabiscuit
Radio Days
Mr. Holland’s Opus
The Cooler
Wag the Dog
Benny & Joon
Cellular
The Client
Shadows and Fog
Ghosts of Mississippi
A Civil Action
Sahara
Mystery Men
Not a bad collection.
Who else that you wouldn’t think of has a good catalogue?
Threads Michael Caine will never be mentioned in for $500, Alex.
I came in to add Tim Robbins, because I adore him in everything I’ve seen him in, except well, he has definitely had some crap along the way, although I bet he was great in all of them.
John C. Reilly. With his recent string of ‘dumb guy’ movies like Talledega Nights, Walk Hard and Step Brothers, people forget the amazing number of quality movies he’s been in:
A Prairie Home Companion (2006) … Lefty
The Aviator (2004) … Noah Dietrich
The Hours (2002) … Dan Brown
Chicago (2002) … Amos Hart
Gangs of New York (2002) … Happy Jack Mulraney
The Perfect Storm (2000)…Dale ‘Murph’ Murphy
Magnolia (1999) … Officer Jim Kurring
The Thin Red Line (1998) … Sgt. Storm
Boogie Nights (1997) … Reed Rothchild
Dolores Claiborne (1995) … Const. Frank Stamshaw
The River Wild (1994) … Terry
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) … Tucker Van Dyke
Hoffa (1992) … Pete Connelly
Out on a Limb (1992) … Jim Jr.
Shadows and Fog (1991) … Cop at Police Station
State of Grace (1990) … Stevie McGuire
Days of Thunder (1990) … Buck Bretherton
We’re No Angels (1989) … Young Monk
Casualties of War (1989) … PFC. Herbert Hatcher
After parsing the title more carefully, I see that my disappointment at the lack of sex and wonderful bodies in this thread was entirely due to my own misguided expectations…
In the spirit of the OP, however:
I was going to mention him. He’s a good singer, as well!
Oh, and any time we have a thread like this I have to mention Bryan Cranston, he has more range in Malcolm in the Middle then a lot of actors have in the entire career.
John Goodman, thanks in large part to the Coen brothers, has been in a surprisingly good number of movies. I think Jennifer Jason Leigh gets overlooked as an actress who is in a lot of good movies.
Actually, no “surprises” ever come up in these threads. People with large bodies of good work aren’t surprises at all. They’re “actors” as opposed to “movie stars” but they’re all well-known to most movie-goers.
