Distinctive walks

That’s what I was going to say. I heard somewhere once that she developed her distinctive walk by cutting the heel of one high heeled shoe shorter than the other. I can’t remember where I heard it though, and I have no idea if it’s actually true.

John Mahoney
Martin Crane on Frasier. It’s weird seeing him not limp when he’s in other roles.

Not a real person (I don’t think) but I keep having the mental image of that old R. Crumb Keep On Truckin’ character interfering with the walks of real people in my mind’s eye.

Festus! I’m commin Marshall Dillon!

That reminds me of a Next Generationdrinking game I once read the rules of. If memory serves, you were supposed to take a drink each time Riker walked as if he were trying to knock down an imaginary door with his forehead.

Meg Ryan has a weird walk - it’s kind of masculine and duck-like. It’s really noticeable in the movie French Kiss where she’s trudging around Paris.

William Peterson.

In jeans and boots in To Live and Die In LA it was perhaps the most pronounced pidgeon-toeing I’d ever seen.

Not to mention bow-legged.

John Elway. He walks (Still does) like he’s straddling a sawhorse.

Morticia Addams. Mainly because of the dress.

I am the first to mention Hugh Laurie’s House.:confused:

So it would seem. Odd, eh?

Wonder if Billy Barty should be mentioned…

Richard Gere. He sort of… glides.

On the subject of gliding, Kathleen Freeman as “The Penguin”, Sister Mary Stigmata.

Then, don’t watch me walk. I never noticed that Ralph walks on his toes…but I do. Familial trait, it seems; my mother and my niece do it, too.

Indeed!

For some reason I’m just now thinking of Walter Brennan.

Does anybody know for sure if Piper Laurie has/had a limp? The one she had in The Hustler was deliberate, but I think I remember almost every role of hers either involving a limp or their working hard to disguise it. Just curious.

Mini Me?

The more I think about Julia Roberts, mariposalabrown, the heavier that clunking seems. Graceful as a penguin. (Just to bring this post full circle!)

Edie Brickell, of New Bohemians fame.

When they had their one hit (“What I Am”), I remember seeing the video on MTV, and getting quite the crush on her. When the New Bohemians played on David Letterman, I made sure I watched that night. After they performed, Edie walked over to sit down and talk with Dave. Her gait was…well…un-ladylike. She took these huge strides, and walked like she was wearing hunting boots that were three sizes too big for her feet.

Let’s not forget the Ministry of Silly Walks.

We haven’t; see post #2. :slight_smile:

That’s who I thought of right away–I saw Nights in Rodanthe and thirty years later, he still has that little hip swagger thing he had in Breathless.