Dear god. In the thousands of times I’ve seen that movie, I never caught that. Do you mean 1955?
Edie McGlurg in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles has one scene with just a couple of lines, if I recall correctly. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the movie. I don’t remember the scene being integral to the plot. I do remember “You’re fucked.”
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I’ve always liked Gold Leader: “Stay on target… stay on target!”
Exactly the kind of (non-Jedi) guy you want leading your attack on a giant death sphere.
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How about Porkins, from that same scene?
Porkins has to be one of the shortest-lived named characters in all of film — as measured from the time of his introduction to the time of his death.
Except he’s not (though I originally thought so, too). Fox ad-libbed the name for the bum, and what came out the same as the 1955 mayor’s nickname. In character, you could either take it that Marty knew the bum by nickname, or that he mistook the bum for “Red” Thomas, whose picture he’d seen while in 1955. Either way, the bum doesn’t look anywhere near old enough to have been the guy on the poster in 1955.
Oh, and it’s “Crazy drunk driver.”
It’s the same guy from the very beginning of the film, when three guys go into a saloon, shots ring out, and Tuco comes flying out the window.
There’s also the shopkeeper from later in the movie. Tuco goes in just as he’s trying to close up, puts together a revolver out of the best pieces, tries it out, and then robs the store with the same gun. Was going to nominate him, but I found a clip online and he has a few more lines of dialog than I remembered.
But Chief Broom has one line before that, and many lines afterward.
Marceau in Silent Movie, and “Plastics” are the two I would have suggested.
I first heard the real story just a couple of years after the movie’s release. The short version: Banjo Boy | Snopes.com
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Tim Brooke-Taylor’s scene in the original Willy Wonka movie.
I love this! It’s a classic!
“I am now telling the computer EXACTLY what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!”
This! Exactly what I popped on to this thread to mention. He’s also in the book. I’ve sometimes wondered what that guy’s day looked like…
How about the girl that the old guy saw once, for a minute, in his youth, and yet never a day goes by that he doesn’t think of her? She’s not even onscreen once in the movie, yet she’s famous!
I’ve mentioned her in a thread before, but the teenage daughter of Robert deNiro’s character in Midnight Run. She only has a couple of one-word answers and then a sentence where she tries to give her babysitting money to her dad. Maybe it doesn’t count because from the first time we see her to our last glimpse of her is about three minutes, but I think it’s very memorable.
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Gotta mention Arch Stanton When it comes this Movie.
I think this guy qualifies, it took some good thinking, Ray.
Also Sean Connery in the Robin Hood with Costner only has a couple lines, doesn’t he?
Bill Paxton in the original Terminator.
“Nice night for a walk?”
Maybe this is too much content, but…
The old guy at The Godfather opening party, who is repeatedly rehearsing his little speech to the Godfather, which is all of a couple of sentences, and who never does get it right.
He wasn’t that old. That was Luca Brasi, who appeared in a number of later scenes.
Maybe you’re thinking of the funeral director (he was older) who asks Don Vito for revenge against the men who raped his daughter? He only appears in one very poignant later scene.
You’re right — they could have cut the whole scene. It never appeared in the play. David Mamet wrote the scene for the movie, and (IIRC) specifically for Alec Baldwin.
Well, he’s a no-line character, so Morn would seem to count, even though he appears in nearly every episode of DS9.
Yah.
Nice night to check out post 59.