# Too-Cool-For-School guy in HTC commercials

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-cool-for-school-guy-in-htc-commercials/691214>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 20, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-cool-for-school-guy-in-htc-commercials/691214 "2014-06-20T15:48:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-cool-for-school-guy-in-htc-commercials/691214/1 "2014-06-20T15:48:19Z")

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Who is that guy?

I wanna say Gary Oldman, but I wouldn’t think he would shill cell phones, but he just sounds SO much like him.

Does anyone know who the guy actually is?

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**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-cool-for-school-guy-in-htc-commercials/691214/2 "2014-06-20T15:50:23Z")

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> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#):
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> Who is that guy?
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> I wanna say Gary Oldman, but I wouldn’t think he would shill cell phones, but he just sounds SO much like him.
> 
> Does anyone know who the guy actually is?

It’s, uh, [Gary Oldman](http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/25/5548044/htc-one-m8-ad-has-gary-oldman-says-blah-blah-blah).

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**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-cool-for-school-guy-in-htc-commercials/691214/3 "2014-06-20T15:53:18Z")

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Well shit look at that.

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**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-cool-for-school-guy-in-htc-commercials/691214/4 "2014-06-20T17:34:00Z")

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And he is getting to be an old man. It’s definitely Commissioner Gordon.

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-cool-for-school-guy-in-htc-commercials/691214/5 "2014-06-24T04:14:40Z")

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I think it would have been incredibly entertaining if he had tried to be a phone pitchman during the phase of his career when he was known for playing one completely deranged motherfucker after another. I think he might have been surprisingly effective. I would definitely buy a phone from Agent Stansfield … in the hopes that he would not execute me.