Your Favorite Character Actors (pre-poll data gathering)

L. Q. Jones
Dub Taylor
Ken Lynch
R. G. Armstrong
John Vernon

Victor Wong or as I like to call him, “every Asian man who has appeared on camera since 1975-ish who wasn’t Al Leong until Ken Jeong started acting”

and Al Leong

and Austin Pendleton

The Culpepper Cattle Company, Electra Glide in Blue and Five Easy Pieces?

American Graffiti, White Lightning and The Culpepper Cattle Company?

The Hustler, High Plains Drifter and Jeremiah Johnson?

Mako

James Hong

Philip Seymour Hoffman, before he became a big name.

Dan Duryea

Jim Beaver (played Ellsworth in Deadwood; presently in Justified)

Stephen Root (of Office Space fame)

And one of my all time faves: Chief Dan George

You folks are coming up with some great ones. I’m going to alphabetize the current offerings to make it easier to think of others who should be considered.

That will take a little while so keep going with the list.

And thanks!

David Strathairn
Chris Cooper
Tom Wilkinson
Frances McDormand
Catherine O’Hara

The Godfather, The Getaway and Mr. Majestyk?

Oh, my goodness! No mention of Warren Oates?

Dick Miller
Tracey Walter
William Sanderson

Hermione Baddeley
Byron Foulger
Ian Wolfe

As of Post #30 here’s the list so far:

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Danny Aiello
R. G. Armstrong
William Atherton
Hermione Baddeley
G.W. Bailey

Joe Don Baker
Jim Beaver
Ward Bond
Neville Brand
Walter Brennan

Wilford Brimley
Jim Broadbent
Clancy Brown
Kathy Burke
Steve Buscemi

Lee J. Cobb
Olivia Colman
Steve Coogan
Elisha Cook Jr.
Chris Cooper

Brian Cox
James Cromwell
Tim Curry
Sammy Davis Jr.
Bruce Davison

Dale Dickey
Charles Durning
Dan Duryea
Buddy Ebsen
Jack Elam

Richard Farnsworth
Pam Ferris
William Fichtner
Tommy Flanagan
Byron Foulger

Michael Gambon
Chief Dan George
Stefan Gierasch
Walton Goggins
John Goodman

Richard E Grant
Billy Green Bush
Richard Griffiths
Philip Baker Hall
Dan Hedaya

Philip Seymour Hoffman
James Hong
Bo Hopkins
Michael Ironside
Gregory Itzin

Zeljko Ivanek
Richard Jaeckel
David Jason
Ken Jeong
Ben Johnson (2)

L. Q. Jones
Robert Knepper
Al Leong
Al Lettieri
Peter Lorre

John Carroll Lynch
Ken Lynch
Mako
Eddie Marsan
Strother Martin (2)

Chistopher McDonald
Frances McDormand
Bruce McGill
Stephen Merchant
Dick Miller

Tony Mordente
Rita Moreno
Robert Morley
Burt Mustin
Kathy Najimy

Bill Nighy
Warren Oates
Donald O’connor
George O’hanlon
Catherine O’Hara

Gary Oldman
Bill Paxton
Austin Pendleton
Ron Perlman
Johnathan Pryce

Claude Rains
James Rebhorn
Stephen Root
William Sanderson
Wallace Shawn

J. K. Simmons
Maggie Smith (2)
Tucker Smith
Joe Spinel
Harry Dean Stanton (2)

David Strathairn (2)
Robert Strauss
Mark Strong
Dub Taylor
Stephen Tobolowsky

Lee Van Cleef
John Vernon
Eli Wallach
J.T. Walsh
M. Emmet Walsh

Ray Walston
Tracey Walter
Mary Wickes
Tom Wilkinson
Mark Williams

Ian Wolfe
Victor Wong

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I count 112. Can we get 200?

George Kennedy

Dan Ackroyd

Paul Fix
Richard Jaeckel
Ward Bond
William Bendix

God’s Little Acre, The Naked and the Dead, The Green Berets

Jack Warden
Martin Balsam
E. G. Marshall

(Really, everyone from 12 Angry Men except Henry Fonda fits this bill.)

Allan Melvin
Vito Scotti
Jesse White

John Hawkes

Two more:

Laird Creggar
Garret Dillahunt

Henry Silva