Underrated Character Actors

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:45 am

I don't know if you technically call PBH a character actor, but to me he is severely underrated. I always dig his appearances. Paul Thomas Anderson seems to have a hard-on for him as well.

Philip Baker Hall

aleph · Post by **aleph** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:33 am

Just from his turn as the library cop on Seinfeld alone makes him one of the best. "I got a flash for ya, joyboy!"

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:38 am

giancarlo esposito, he was estoban in that movie fresh and the black detective in usual suspects and numerous other movies, he's a sick actor wit a wide acting range, he can play damn near any character like samuel l jackson and viggo mortenson

A Kid · Post by **A Kid** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:43 am

Giancarlo is that dude..."workin for Esteban, b!!!!"

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:52 am

Buggin' Out made him GOAT status brohams.

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:08 am

A Kid wrote:Giancarlo is that dude..."workin for Esteban, b!!!!"

ha ha, and you know this, "i'm workin for esteban b", ha ha, no question

and the bit were estaban is breaking down the diffrence between shottin(selling) brown and shottin rocks to fresh and estaban gives it about how the crack games too violent and then he breaks it down about the brown game "the competition is unconfrontational , the clientele is peace loving, you can grow old and be the man until your 50's & 60's and the best thing is you don't have to pay no taxes, an then you can retire yourself to somewhere in miami or sumthin", ha ha, that shit was crazy, that brother was breaking it down like he was breaking down the science on general motors or sumthin, or ford, he was breaking down that science, ha ha, crazy shit

and the bit when fresh trys to get esteban to hire chuckee to work for him and esteban gives it, "why should i hire you" and chuckee says "because i got them dope moves, i buz them dope moves", ha ha, that was funny shit, that chuckee brother was funny man, crazy and estaban tells him to go make himself a coke or pepsi or sumthin, ha ha, thats a sick movie

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:50 pm

Elias Koteas

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:56 pm

never knew who giancarlo was before but i remember both those performances. his obsession with fresh kid's sister is creepy.

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:06 pm

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:21 pm

^Cooper killed his role in The Town

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:25 pm

i'm really glad to see shannon go from super underrated to actually getting recognition and good parts. him and casey affleck (also finally coming into his own) got the 'weird dead eye 1000 yard stare' acting on lock

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:18 pm

recently got caught up with Justified and it would be pretty easy to make a compelling argument for anyone who guest-starred in an episode of that, but Stephen Root and Alan Ruck are especially phenomenal in everything they're in

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:24 pm

If they ever do a Nirvana movie, Ruck should play Novoselic,

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:39 pm

EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:never knew who giancarlo was before but i remember both those performances. his obsession with fresh kid's sister is creepy.

yeah no question, when he asked fresh if his big sister is a freak was kinda feisty and creepy at the same time

PopeyeJones · Post by **PopeyeJones** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 5:35 am

Sankofa wrote:^Cooper killed his role in The Town

Yeah he did. So many great character actors in The Town, fwiw.

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:30 am

i'm gonna have to cop this 'the town' movie on pirate, i heard slaine's in it too, the reviews on tv seem to be good for it aswell, see how south boston gets down, ha ha

A Kid · Post by **A Kid** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 9:26 am

does Phillip Seymour Hoffman count? he kinda plays similar chacters but he can go from jolly weird guy to rage-filled ready to rip a head off..

cant forget the homie William H Macy

Funkdoobiest · Post by **Funkdoobiest** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:40 am

Elias Koteas reminds me a lot of a younger De Niro

Stanley Tucci (if he counts)

Luiz Guzman

Bob Gunton

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:28 am

william defoe is a next good character actor, from a army guy in 'platoon' to cia guy in 'clear & present danger' to counter feit forgery gangster in 'to live & die in la' to drug lord in 'once upon a time in mexico', to commercial blockbuster comic book movies like 'spiderman', that brother gets down and he does it wit authenticity and skill, yes surr

Funkdoobiest · Post by **Funkdoobiest** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:31 am

Surely Dafoe cannot count as underrated.

PopeyeJones · Post by **PopeyeJones** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:39 am

Funkdoobiest wrote:Surely Dafoe cannot count as underrated.

Certainly can when people are listing Guzman, PSH and William H. Macy. Throw in John Malkovich and Christopher Walken and you have a nice list of the most celebrated character actors.

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:27 pm

Liev Schreiber, how the dude's not a movie star is beyond me.

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:15 pm

Keith David is the man. It seems like he's in pretty much every movie.

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:38 pm

Sankofa wrote:Liev Schreiber, how the dude's not a movie star is beyond me.

Agree completely. He fucking kills everything.

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 4:17 pm

Blockhead wrote:Keith David is the man. It seems like he's in pretty much every movie.

keith david is a good underated actor, but he hasen't done that much roles outside from doing thugged out characters, thugged out brothers, you get what i'm saying and don't get me twisted, he does them roles wit perfection, og status, but what wide range of roles has that brother been allowed to do or chosen to do other than those types, maybe i'm missing some of his movies, because i can only think of 'the thing' and thats it

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 5:28 pm

Gregg Henry

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 6:08 pm

LONDON! wrote:
Blockhead wrote:Keith David is the man. It seems like he's in pretty much every movie.
keith david is a good underated actor, but he hasen't done that much roles outside from doing thugged out characters, thugged out brothers, you get what i'm saying and don't get me twisted, he does them roles wit perfection, og status, but what wide range of roles has that brother been allowed to do or chosen to do other than those types, maybe i'm missing some of his movies, because i can only think of 'the thing' and thats it

Something About Mary?

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:38 pm

Philaflava wrote:
LONDON! wrote:
Blockhead wrote:Keith David is the man. It seems like he's in pretty much every movie.
keith david is a good underated actor, but he hasen't done that much roles outside from doing thugged out characters, thugged out brothers, you get what i'm saying and don't get me twisted, he does them roles wit perfection, og status, but what wide range of roles has that brother been allowed to do or chosen to do other than those types, maybe i'm missing some of his movies, because i can only think of 'the thing' and thats it
Something About Mary?

that film wit cameron diaz, ben stiller & matt dillon?

if it is, i can't remember him in it, damn, i mean i saw that film on tv time ago, i'll just have to wait for it to come on tv again, its not the type of film i'd buy from hmv or sumthin, but it was decent and funny in places, thats what i remember anyway, ha ha

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:31 am

I'm pretty sure Ben Stiller is a fan and used for some of his movies too.

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:41 am

Philaflava wrote:I'm pretty sure Ben Stiller is a fan and used for some of his movies too.

thats probably why i've missed these varied roles keith david's done, because other than 'meet the parents' and 'something about mary' and not really into stiller's type of comedy's, so my bad, its good to see heads are up on keith david's top notch acting game and giving him them checks you know