# List your favourite character actors (and a film people would know them from) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-favourite-character-actors-and-a-film-people-would-know-them-from/742117 "2016-01-04T01:55:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-favourite-character-actors-and-a-film-people-would-know-them-from/742117/41 "2016-01-07T01:16:26Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > The first person I think of in this regard is Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez in _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)_. Not to mention Calvera in The Magnificent Seven. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-favourite-character-actors-and-a-film-people-would-know-them-from/742117/42 "2016-01-07T04:37:50Z")
> [@Mattie\_Blue](#): > > **Richard Jenkins** Got an best actor Oscar nomination for the wonderful little film “The Visitor”. Luckily that opened more doors and he has been very busy since. I know him… It amazing how he seems to play every major character’s father, including being the dead father in _Six Feet Under_. A lot in common with William Schallert, Patty Duke’s dad. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2016, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-favourite-character-actors-and-a-film-people-would-know-them-from/742117/43 "2016-01-07T04:40:02Z")
> [@Mattie\_Blue](#): > > … **John C. Reilly** A supporting actor Oscar nomination for Chicago. His rendition of Mr. Cellophane was the best thing in that movie IMHO. Probably people will know him from The Perfect Storm, Gangs of New York, Talladega Nights, and most any other Will Ferrell movie. Was also Kevin Costner’s catcher in _For the Love of the Game_, a rather glurgy romance/baseball flick that I still inexplicably watch on occasion. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-favourite-character-actors-and-a-film-people-would-know-them-from/742117/44 "2016-01-07T07:38:47Z")
I have always loved **Wilfred Brimley**. Always the good-natured old coot. I remember him best as the crusty U.S. Attorney near the end of **Absence of Malice**. > [@](#): > > You had a leak? You call what’s goin’ on around here a leak? Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built hisself a boat. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-favourite-character-actors-and-a-film-people-would-know-them-from/742117/45 "2016-01-07T12:13:11Z")
Philip Baker Hall was one of P. T. Anderson’s main go-to guys from way back, having appeared in Magnolia, Boogie Nights, and Sydney/Hard Eight (in which he stars, actually). Most people will probably remember him best as Mr. Bookman, the library cop, from an episode of _Seinfeld_. ETA: > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I have always loved **Wilfred Brimley**. Always the good-natured old coot. Not always so good-natured. Cf. _The China Syndrome_ and _The Firm_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-favourite-character-actors-and-a-film-people-would-know-them-from/742117/46 "2016-01-07T12:31:10Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > (Wilford Brimley\_) > > Not always so good-natured. Cf. _The China Syndrome_ and _The Firm_. Not to mention _The Thing_, one of the few films I recall that had him without his trademark walrus moustache ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-favourite-character-actors-and-a-film-people-would-know-them-from/742117/47 "2016-01-07T14:49:02Z")
> [@Doug\_Bowe](#): > > I’ve always had a weakness for Frank Morgan. He started in silents supporting John Barrymore but would be best remembered as the Wizard of Oz. Yes, I’ll watch anything with Frank Morgan in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-favourite-character-actors-and-a-film-people-would-know-them-from/742117.md?page=2)