Casting Against Type (“Good Guys” Playing Bad Guys, Comedians doing Heavy Roles, etc.)
Henry Fonda, as cold-blooded killer Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West
Robin Williams - One Hour Photo
Robert de Niro, in Star Dust, Mad Dog & Glory, or Rocky & Bullwinkle, trying to be funny (and failing)
James Cagney as song and dance man George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ernest Borgnine - Marty
Jerry Lewis in the TV series Wiseguy.
Albert Brooks, surprisingly excellent as a cold-blooded killer in Drive
James Stewart is the heavy in After The Thin Man
David Tennant in “Secret Smile” (he played a reprehensible sociopath)
Leslie Nielsen in Airplane! (AFTER ***Airplane!, ***he did mostly goofy comedy roles; prior to that, he was almost always a serious, humorless, staid B-movie actor who specialized playing authority figures)
Casting Against Type (“Good Guys” Playing Bad Guys, Comedians doing Heavy Roles, etc.)
Henry Fonda, as cold-blooded killer Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West
Robin Williams - One Hour Photo
Robert de Niro, in Star Dust, Mad Dog & Glory, or Rocky & Bullwinkle, trying to be funny (and failing)
James Cagney as song and dance man George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ernest Borgnine - Marty
Jerry Lewis in the TV series Wiseguy.
Albert Brooks, surprisingly excellent as a cold-blooded killer in Drive
James Stewart is the heavy in After The Thin Man
David Tennant in “Secret Smile” (he played a reprehensible sociopath)
Leslie Nielsen in Airplane! (AFTER Airplane!, he did mostly goofy comedy roles; prior to that, he was almost always a serious, humorless, staid B-movie actor who specialized playing authority figures)
Carol Burnett on Law and Order SVU. She played an aging Ballerina who killed her four husbands
Casting Against Type (“Good Guys” Playing Bad Guys, Comedians doing Heavy Roles, etc.)
Henry Fonda, as cold-blooded killer Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West
Robin Williams - One Hour Photo
Robert de Niro, in Star Dust, Mad Dog & Glory, or Rocky & Bullwinkle, trying to be funny (and failing)
James Cagney as song and dance man George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ernest Borgnine - Marty
Jerry Lewis in the TV series Wiseguy.
Albert Brooks, surprisingly excellent as a cold-blooded killer in Drive
James Stewart is the heavy in After The Thin Man
David Tennant in “Secret Smile” (he played a reprehensible sociopath)
Leslie Nielsen in Airplane! (AFTER ***Airplane!, ***he did mostly goofy comedy roles; prior to that, he was almost always a serious, humorless, staid B-movie actor who specialized playing authority figures)
Carol Burnett on Law and Order SVU. She played an aging Ballerina who killed her four husbands
Patrick Stewart as the flamboyant and bitchy gay comedic choreographer character in Jeffrey
Casting Against Type (“Good Guys” Playing Bad Guys, Comedians doing Heavy Roles, etc.)
Henry Fonda, as cold-blooded killer Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West
Robin Williams - One Hour Photo
Robert de Niro, in Star Dust, Mad Dog & Glory, or Rocky & Bullwinkle, trying to be funny (and failing)
James Cagney as song and dance man George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ernest Borgnine - Marty
Jerry Lewis in the TV series Wiseguy.
Albert Brooks, surprisingly excellent as a cold-blooded killer in Drive
James Stewart is the heavy in After The Thin Man
David Tennant in “Secret Smile” (he played a reprehensible sociopath)
Leslie Nielsen in Airplane! (AFTER Airplane!, he did mostly goofy comedy roles; prior to that, he was almost always a serious, humorless, staid B-movie actor who specialized playing authority figures)
Carol Burnett on Law and Order SVU. She played an aging Ballerina who killed her four husbands
Patrick Stewart as the flamboyant and bitchy gay comedic choreographer character in Jeffrey
Elijah Wood as Kevin the serial killer in Sin City.