Please refer to Your Top Ten Favorite Character Actors (which is still in progress) for the basis for this first poll. This is step three in the process of narrowing the list down to the SDMB’s favorites.
Those actors mentioned more than once in that thread are:
It’s interesting that even though all these people had multiple mentions in the preliminary thread(s) that only these have gotten more than one vote here.
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Harry Dean Stanton 3 21.43%
David Strathairn 3 21.43%
JT Walsh 2 14.29%
Voters: 14. You have already voted on this poll
I realize it’s early but it’s still a surprise. If we are to carry the high-vote-getters on to subsequent vote-offs, this could be a problem.
A lot o’ people don’t realize what’s really going on. They view life as a bunch o’ unconnected incidents ‘n things. They don’t realize that there’s this, like, lattice o’ coincidence that lays on top o’ everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinkin’ about a plate o’ shrimp. Suddenly someone’ll say, like, “plate,” or “shrimp,” or “plate o’ shrimp” out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.
I assume it is acknowledging Harry Dean Stanton as a charade actor since he starred in Repo Man. Or since Tracey Walter actually said the line maybe It was a complaint you missed one.
I voted for Ciarán Hinds - never saw him bad in anything, from Excalibur to The Sum of All Fears to Munich to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - but I wish I’d been able to vote for M. Emmet Walsh, dammit.
I feel the same way about several others. The limitations on number of votes was to try to narrow down the list. I see now that that was short-sighted so I’m thinking of more in the way of multiple-choice poll or polls. There’s just too many names to do that neatly.
