Ugly actors.. lets talk about them

Wes R said:
Everyone says Ron pearlman is a great guy. They do joke that he'd growl at the voice director while recording stuff for the fallout games as there is so much to do.
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I was thinking of adding Ron to my first list, because when i was young you only saw him coverad with makeup as he was in beauty and the beast
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or in The name of the rose.
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Wes R said:
Everyone says Ron pearlman is a great guy. They do joke that he'd growl at the voice director while recording stuff for the fallout games as there is so much to do.
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So much to do?! Are you kidding me? All he has to do is say "War....war never changes" and then whistle all the way to the bank. ;)
 
Solo4114 said:
So much to do?! Are you kidding me? All he has to do is say "War....war never changes" and then whistle all the way to the bank. ;)
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and also talk at the end credits.....multiple end credits...Good,bad, in between...he does them all.
 
You want an ugly guy who had a great career...Charles Bronson, he was just a few pock marks away from being Danny Trejo, yet married Jill Ireland one of Hollywoods ethereal beauties, and of course we can all name a buttload of movies he did. But Handsome? No way.

Brain Thompson, the Go-To guy for an alien in Star Trek. He lives on the Oregon Coast near Haystack Rock, writes poetry, is a devoted family man, and is quite intellectual. He was also the guy in Alien Nation James Caan kicked in the nuts to no effect.
 
Ted Cassidy also in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. A couple of top 40 hits and an album to his name too.

Jack (Volodymyr) Palance, was it the boxing or was it bailing out of a burning plane during the war? Whatever it was the face definitely had character.

If you can twin an interesting face with good acting skills you have a winning double as far as I'm concerned. Just a pitty the general consensus now a days is the exact opposite in most cases.
Most movies today remind me of being a kid watching my sister play with Barbie and Ken.
If an actor is to bring any gravitas to a role I'm definitely not going to be sold by any lines coming from a man-boy. I want a lived in face, one that exudes experience before I take 'em seriously.

There was an actor I was going to mention, always played villans from about the seventies to the 80's. If I remember rightly he had some scar tissue to his face from what could have been burns and very fair to greying hair. A most interesting actor but for the life of me I can't remember his name (I want to say Charles somebody for some reason but not sure).
 
I've always loved Edward James Olmos. His pock marked face was perfect for the role he played in BSG. A very distinguished man indeed.
 
NoTsOsErIoUs said:
There was an actor I was going to mention, always played villans from about the seventies to the 80's. If I remember rightly he had some scar tissue to his face from what could have been burns and very fair to greying hair. A most interesting actor but for the life of me I can't remember his name (I want to say Charles somebody for some reason but not sure).
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I immediately knew you were talking about Richard Lynch from your description. Great character actor who did a lot of television work in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, almost always playing a heavy. And, yes, the scars are from being burned in 1967 (he allegedly set himself on fire after taking LSD).

Lynch (any many of the actors mentioned in this thread) is what has become known as a "that guy"--very talented character actors whose faces you've seen time and time again but, for whatever reason, never knew their names.
 
Richard Lynch played a bad guy in a 2 parter STNG episode. Another one is Anthony James, from his first appearance as the murderer in "In the Heat of the Night" to the Assassin who sings along with Priscilla Presley in the shower in one of the Naked gun Movies, this guy has always been a go-to Villain. Michael Ironside also.

Lynch and James to my Recollection played good guys only once in each of their careers. Lynch (Also the bad guy Chuck Norris kicks the snot out of in Invasion USA), Played an Immortal in the Highlander TV Series, who started as a baddie, but turned good, when during Vietnam, a group of Children were killed due to his actions.

Anthony James played Garrick, an alien who could walk through walls etc. during a 2 parter of Buck Rogers. He turned against the bad guys and helped stop an antimatter reactor from detonating on Earth.

Michael Ironside has played a few good guys, but is usually The Heavy.

Let us not forget the late Brion James, usually a villain, but occasionally a good guy like in Steel Dawn, and The 5th Element, one of his last movies.
 
I think they fall into the category of "merely average." Average people can often be made to look uglier than they are, but can also clean up nice. Even if you put Richard Lynch in a spiffy suit, he's still Richard Lynch. ;) He's also laughing all the way to the bank.
 
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