The 300 Best Character Movie Actors - Always in the Cast but never the Star, 100 Years of Movies. He made his film debut in the 1940s, and has appeared in dozens of films. He is ... Whit Bissell came to Hollywood in the 1940s, and by the time he retired he had appeared in more than 200 movies and scores of TV series. ... From the grand old school of wisecracking, loud and lanky Mary Wickes had few peers while forging a career as a salty scene-stealer. The son of a Georgia minister, Edward Andrews debuted on stage in 1926 at age 12 and by 1935 had landed on Broadway. The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger. He entered movies in 1926 and ... Kenneth Gilbert More C.B.E. Later she attended UCLA with intentions of becoming a pianist, but was bitten by the acting bug and never looked back. Typical of busy character actors, Fiedler made his face (and voice) recognizable to millions. The Lion King is a Disney media franchise comprising a film series and additional media. She was born Edna May Nutter, a child of solid New England stock, on 9th November 1883 in Malden, Massachusetts. The New Edition Story is an American biographical three-part miniseries about the R&B group New Edition, from their rise to fame as a boy band from the Orchard Park Projects of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to becoming a successful adult act.It was originally broadcast on BET from January 24 through January 26, 2017, becoming the network's first scripted miniseries. Drafted into the Navy, he served as a cook in the U.S. Navy during ... Agnes was born of Anglo/Irish ancestry near Boston, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister (her mother was a mezzo-soprano) who encouraged her to perform in church pageants. Born Andrew Vabre Devine in Flagstaff, Arizona, he was raised in nearby Kingman, Arizona, the son of Irish-American hotel operator Thomas Devine and his wife Amy. 1. John Wayne got the role and became the most durable star in Hollywood history, while ... Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens in Mill Valley, California (near San Francisco), and was interested in show business from an early age. The son of an insurance underwriter who represented Lloyd's of London in Ceylon, Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was born in Margate, Kent. Also known for his commanding personality throughout his career, he tackled movies and television in a way no ... Norman Fell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1924. To that end, I have removed many on this list who were known more for their TV work, than in the Movies and added several glaring omissions. Slim Pickens spent the early part of his career as a real cowboy and the latter part playing cowboys, and he is best remembered for a single "cowboy" image: that of bomber pilot Maj. "King" Kong waving his cowboy hat rodeo-style as he rides a nuclear bomb onto its target in the great black comedy ... Harry Morgan was a prolific character actor who starred in over 100 films and was a stage performer. A native of Kokomo, Indiana, Strother Martin Jr. was the youngest of three children of Strother Douglas Martin, a machinist, and Ethel Dunlap Martin. His first big break in pictures came in 1945 when he appeared as Windy the introspective letter-writing G.I. He was one of the few actors to do it all: radio, Broadway, movies, television and cartoons. He decided to stick around (the pay was good), and for some years was a stunt man, horse wrangler, and double for such stars as John Wayne, Gary Cooper ... Alan Hale decided on a film career after his attempt at becoming an opera singer didn't pan out. As a child he worked in the cotton fields. While performing in vaudeville in Kansas City, he ... American character actor who achieved considerable fame in the last decade of his life. He was married to Florence Gertrude Heffernan. But perfect he did -- on stage, film and TV. The uneasy balance between these worlds is soon shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend at the hands of a police officer. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He was a popular stage and radio actor in the 1930's in New York, where he also filmed his first cinema appearances (industrial short features). Her movie career was started with a bit part in the 1946 Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds -- the poor, mostly black neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep school that she attends. Eugene's father had also been a thespian at one time but eventually ended his career as an insurance salesman. He ... Born in Canada, John Ireland was raised in New York. I am now at 250, so any additions from here on out, will be with removing some of the lesser known for ones that people have I have omitted and are worthy of this list.Update 7/22/14 - Since I said I would stop at 250, but I have gotten several comments about additions and found some of my own. Thank to you all.Update 2/6/15 - I haven't been able to get back to this in awhile, but did read all of your comments and concur with most of them. A former song-and-dance man and veteran of vaudeville, burlesque and Broadway, Jack Albertson is best known to audiences as "The Man" in the TV series Chico and the Man (1974), for which he won an Emmy. He started out as an animator for Walt Disney Studios, then worked as a disc jockey and a professional pianist. A grand, well-respected character lead and support of stage, film and television, most people mistakenly think New Zealander Clive Revill is British. A seemingly unlikely stage discovery by no one less than the great Dame Sybil Thorndike of British theater, Herbert moved into movie roles by the early 1950s. The uneasy balance between these worlds is soon shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend at the hands of a police officer. However, the little Glaswegian's ... American character actor of gruff voice and appearance who was a fixture in Hollywood pictures from the earliest days of the talkies. He studied acting at Columbia University, and played many major classical roles onstage. Although this pint-sized actor started out in films often in innocuous college-student roles in mid-30s rah-rahs, playing alongside the likes of a pretty Gloria Stuart or a young, pre-"Oz" Judy Garland, casting directors would soon enough discover his flair for portraying intense neurotics or ... Roddy McDowall was born in Herne Hill, London, England, to Winifriede Lucinda (Corcoran), an Irish-born aspiring actress, and Thomas Andrew McDowall, a merchant seaman. He was an actor, known for The Getaway (1972), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Maverick (1994). Glimpsing even a bent smile from this unending sourpuss was extremely rare, unless one perhaps caught him in a moment of insidious glee after carrying out one of his many nefarious... Rotund comic character actor of American films. He attended and graduated from Brown University and had a short stint as a New York newspaperman, but became interested in acting on the advice of colorful Polish émigré classical stage director ... Jim Backus was born James Gilmore Backus on February 25, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio. (20 September 1914 - 12 July 1982) was one of Britain's most successful and highest paid actors of his generation, with a multi award-winning career in theatre, film and television spanning over 4 decades.At the height of his fame during the 1950's Kenneth More appeared ... Pittsburgh-born and -raised character actor Regis Toomey, of Irish descent, took an early interest in the performing arts and initially studied drama at the university of his home town. His family planned for him to go into the diplomatic service but he liked the idea of acting more. After attending private school he went on to study drama at ... For decades, Dabney Coleman has often appeared as a smarmy, selfish, nervous person, often with money, who is mostly out for himself. Playing Hubbard on the Great White Way brought him the 1953 Tony ... Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, to Ersel (Moberly), a cook, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a barber and tobacco farmer. In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. He worked as a lifeguard at a Miami, Florida, hotel, where he made contacts in the film business. A musician from his youth, he performed from the age of 12 with tent shows, in vaudeville, and with stock companies. Looking much more comfy in overalls than he ever could in a tuxedo, he would find an equally comfortable niche ... English character actor Robert Morley was educated in England, Germany, France and Italy. In Hollywood from shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Sakall began appearing in comedies and musicals, often playing a lovable if ... Actress | During World War II, he was an Air Force tail gunner in the Pacific. He later wrote his own shows, ... Stocky, genial-looking supporting actor Ned Beatty was once hailed by Daily Variety as the "busiest actor in Hollywood".Ned Thomas Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret (Fortney) and Charles William Beatty. Though stage, screen and TV veteran Arthur O'Connell was born in New York City (on March 29, 1908), he looked as countrified as the American Gothic painting or Mom's home-made apple pie. After World War II, Mitchell ... Richard Conte was born Nicholas Richard Conte on March 24, 1910, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of an Italian-American barber. In a 40-year career that spanned Broadway, television and movies, the versatile actor played everyone from sleazy villains to terrifying killers to clumsy comics. Tall, distinguished, aristocratic Louis Calhern seemed to be the poster boy for old-money, upper-crust urban society, but he was actually born Carl Vogt, to middle-class parents in New York City. Donald's sisters were Elizabeth, Ann, Alice (known as Louisa) and Eliza and his brothers were James, ... One Hollywood stalwart whose screen incarnations more than lived up to his name was bald-domed character actor Donald Meek, forever typecast as mousy, timorous or browbeaten Casper Milquetoasts. You have seen at least one these actors in most any picture made since the 1930's. Named "Chill" as an ironic comment on his birth date being the hottest day of 1902. She was 20 when she made her stage debut at the Playhouse in Chicago as the young countess in "The Highwayman". Widely regarded as one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, twice nominated for the Oscar and recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK and US, Ian Murray McKellen was born on May 25, 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, to Margery ... John Williams was a tall, urbane Anglo-American actor best known for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Dial M for Murder (1954), a role he played on Broadway, in Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film, and on television in 1958. Bond grew up in Denver, the son of a lumberyard worker. Colorful character actor of American Westerns. Known to a younger generation of fans as "Col. Sherman T. Potter" on M*A*S*H (1972). He appeared in many of John Ford's movies as well as James ... Enjoyably larger-than-life character actor Hugh Emrys Griffith was born in Marianglas, Anglesey, North Wales, to Mary (Williams) and William Griffith. Tell us what you think about this feature. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This website only serves to provide information as required by the user. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in the 1920s and ... Martin Henry Balsam was born on November 4, 1919 in the Bronx, New York City, to Lillian (Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, a manufacturer of women's sportswear. His bad-guy roles included a stalker who, along with Alan Arkin terrorized a blind Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 cult classic Wait Until ... A golden career was reflected in his name. He was one of those wonderful character actors who would be a crooked judge in one film and a humorous cavalry officer in another. Her performance in the short ... Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. Some like John Goodman and Karl Malden have had top billing, but most of these Stars are known as the "Co-Star", "Second Banana" "With" or "Also Staring" roles. His mother and father were German ... Harry Carey, Jr., had been reliable character actor for decades, mostly in Westerns, before he retired. The fifth of seven children, he was born in the first minute of 1891. Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, The.Hate.U.Give.2018.720p.WEB-DL.XviD.AC3-FGT, https://www.imdb.com/find?q=The Hate U Give (2018). Donald's parents were James Crisp and Elizabeth Crisp, his birth was registered by his mother on 4th September 1882. Born in New York City to a Judge of Special Sessions who was also president of a sewing machine company. He was an actor and writer, known for Spartacus (1960), When Worlds Collide (1951) and Attack of the Puppet People (1958). Devine was an able athlete as a student and actually played semi-pro football under a ... Born in Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo performer when, in 1940, Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California. He received his law degree as a qualified barrister (which in English law tradition is a lawyer who is a ... American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called "John Ford Stock Company." He was the son of Helen (Burk) and John Francis Xavier Jones, and the grandson of Pennsylvania Representative Henry Burk, a Prussian immigrant. After the war, he studied acting and obtained small parts in television and on stage. With the advent of sound, Hale played leads in a few films but soon ... Dub Taylor was born on February 26, 1907 in Richmond, Virginia, USA as Walter Clarence Taylor II. His family moved soon after his birth to San Antonio, Texas, ... John Irwin McGiver came to acting relatively late in life. While there, he was frequently performing on stage with the Carolina Playmakers. Sakall was a veteran of German, Hungarian and British films when he left Europe because of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement. He held B.A. His portrayal of Long John Silver and of Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) created a persona that ... Donald Barry went from the stage to the screen. He stood at 5 ft. 6 in. Paul Fix, the well-known movie and TV character actor who played "Marshal Micah Torrance" on the TV series The Rifleman (1958), was born Peter Paul Fix on March 13, 1901 in Dobbs Ferry, New York to brew-master Wilhelm Fix and his wife, the former Louise C. Walz. I enjoy the comments and the research, so I will continue onto 300. Attended Hamilton Military Academy and turned down an appointment to West Point to attend New York Law School, where his law school classmates included future ... Henry Burk Jones was born in New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At 16, she made her stage debut after quitting school to joined a stock company. In 1950 she went to London for "Larger Than Life", a dramatization of W. ... Missouri-born Jane Darwell was born Patti Woodard, the daughter of William Robert Woodard, president of the Louisville Southern Railroad, and Ellen (Booth) Woodard, in Palmyra, Missouri, where she grew up on a ranch . In 1958 Serge Gainsbourg hit paydirt with the first song from his first album. ... Actor | Grew up on City Island, New York. She was particularly adroit in film parts that ... One of Hollywood's finest character actors and most accomplished scene stealers, Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. He is best known for playing the evil scientist who turned Michael Landon into a half beast in the 1957 cult classic film I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957). She nursed ambitions to be an opera singer, but put it off because of her ... Prolific American character actor of primarily villainous roles. NETFIDA, the world's entertainment feeder. His first Hollywood role was in Mr. and Mrs. North (1942). 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