Clu Gulagers death inspired this thread

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Have you all ever been watching an old show or movie and its standard fare, and everyone is doing what you expected acting wise, and then a character shows up and no one fucking told him or her??

Like someone just walked into the movie from a class with Marlon Brando on subverting acting expectations? I don’t nessecerily mean ‘method’. You can do what Im talking about and not be a method actor.

Well there are two I can think of off the top of my head.

Clu Gulager in his first film The Killers…I always felt Clu brought a level of unpredictability and entertainment to any role he played. Including stuff like Return of the Living Dead.

And Jack Palance in Shane…we spend the whole film watching a …good…film. Standard 50’s acting. Then Jack shows up and its like he just walked in from 1968.

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IMDb page.

Most recent credit is a very minor figure in Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood. Tarantino does that a lot.

Did an episode of Beavis and Butthead. When you have such a long and varied career are credits like I’m Gonna Git You Sucka and Tapeheads considered unusual?

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I always got him mixed up with Richard Jaekel.

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Whenever I see Jaeckel…the only way I can differentiate him from people like Glenn Corbett, is to remember that Jaeckel was in The Dirty Dozen.

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I’d never confuse Glenn Corbet with Richard Jaekel. I’d confuse him with George Maharis. (Actually, I wouldn’t do that either, I’d just say “Oh, it’s Zephram Cochrane”.)