# Help me ID this actor...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310 "2012-07-05T14:18:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/1 "2012-07-05T14:18:50Z")
Okay, I am trying to remember this actor’s name - he is baby-faced and kind of weasely looking, he definitely has an American (thinking like New York) accent. He has been in at least one period movie as a gangster/mobster, and played either an angel or a devil once… I know, not much to go on, sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/2 "2012-07-05T14:30:34Z")
[Steve Buscemi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Buscemi)? Hey, it’s a starting point at least. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/3 "2012-07-05T14:40:47Z")
Good guess, but no… younger looking ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/4 "2012-07-05T14:40:49Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > [Steve Buscemi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Buscemi)? > > Hey, it’s a starting point at least. I’ll give you weaselly, but baby-faced? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/5 "2012-07-05T14:43:09Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > [Steve Buscemi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Buscemi)? If your baby looks like Steve Buscemi…\ I was thinking of Bruno Kirby, but the “angel or devil” is a puzzler. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/6 "2012-07-05T14:45:33Z")
Hair color? Approximate era of his movies? I mean, Jason Lee or Shia LeBeouf maybe… ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/7 "2012-07-05T14:45:42Z")
[Ray Liotta](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000501/)? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/8 "2012-07-05T14:52:13Z")
[Rick Hoffman?](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0389069/) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/9 "2012-07-05T14:54:31Z")
[Arnold Stang?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjfx5zvAkdc&feature=related) (skip ahead to 1:24) ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/10 "2012-07-05T15:00:04Z")
Oooh i FOUND HIM - but thanks! I remembered he was in Buffy (show, not movie) - Max Perlich. Thanks all for your help! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/11 "2012-07-08T02:14:10Z")
He looks vaguely familiar, but I don’t know from where: [http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&q=max+perlich&oq=max+perlich&gs\_l=img.3..0l2j0i24l8.476.1723.0.2018.11.10.0.1.1.0.151.949.8j2.10.0...0.0.0\_ohAWwmDMY&biw=1032&bih=806&sei=2ez4T\_3JLpONqQGT5YSMCQ](http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&q=max+perlich&oq=max+perlich&gs_l=img.3..0l2j0i24l8.476.1723.0.2018.11.10.0.1.1.0.151.949.8j2.10.0...0.0.0_ohAWwmDMY&biw=1032&bih=806&sei=2ez4T_3JLpONqQGT5YSMCQ) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-actor/627310/12 "2012-07-08T06:26:42Z")
WTF, I’ll throw in my nomination even if it’s too late and wrong – [Joe Pantoliano](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Joe+Pantoliano%22&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=6Sf5T7fPOs-vqQH7st2LCQ&ved=0CEoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=639).