Character actors you hate!

That Albert Nobbs fella.

Charles Coburn

Nedra Volz, who seemed to always be brought on to say, “You jive turkey!’ Insufferably cute old lady.

Nancy Fox. Fuck her.

Barry Fitzgerald, memorably dismissed by Pauline Kael as "full of Gaelic shenanigans."

Jack Elam. I never knew which eye to look at.

Don Knotts.

[quote] Jack Elam. I never knew which eye to look at.

I take it you don't like to watch Watch What Happens Live on Bravo.

Glen.

LOL R8. The wonky eye is the least of Andy Cohen’s problems.

Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel.

r6, did you not bother to see you had been beaten to the punch already at r1?

Sorry: I meant r9, not r6.

Ed Wynn. Never liked his schtick much.

A contemporary one: Fisher Stevens

Sandra Bulldyke

Fisher Stevens produced “Tiger King.“

So we’re probably not getting Michelle Pfeiffer as Carole Baskin in the movie version.

Favorite character actors

Thank you for your service R18. I appreciate a poster like you in every thread. The Related Thread Troll is a commodity in any thread.

All the “comic drunks”: Foster Brooks, WC Fields, Red Skelton, etc. Annoying AF.

I [italic]hated[/italic] Red Skelton as a kid. My parents watched his variety show. The stupid faces, the sad clown routine - yuck.

Alice Ghostley

Comedy doesn't age from one generation to later generations very well, r21.

I remember being astonished when I showed my students Young Frankenstein when we were reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and they didn't think Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, or Madeline Kahn were very funny.

Are you crazy, R2? Charles Coburn was a horrible person, but a wonderful actor.

(Ok so I had to look up his name) Jack Guilford. I thought he was so annoying in the Sophia’s wedding two parter (one of my least favorite episodes), and I’ve seen him in a couple of other things like All in the Family — didn’t care for him there, either.

Ward Bond. Victor McLaglen. Harry Carey. And other regulars in John Ford’s menagerie.

Seems all they do is bark at each other and get drunk and fight a lot. In picture after picture.

Can’t believe they actually made a living doing that.

(Not to mention Everybody’s Darling, John Wayne, Who made swagger into an institution.)

William Frawley

[quote]Comedy doesn't age from one generation to later generations very well....

[quote] I remember being astonished when I showed my students Young Frankenstein when we were reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and they didn't think Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, or Madeline Kahn were very funny

Interesting point, R23: things that don't age well and comedy.

It's my internal explanation for why I don't like a lot of comedy, figuring I was too old or too young for: Mel Brooks films; Airplane; Monty Python; Tootsie and Victor/Victoria and The Birdcage; The Dick Van Dyke Show; Arrested Development; George Carlin ... I "got" the humor (not that that was difficult), it just had no resonance as comedy (Brooks) or the delivery was so antiquated (Carlin) or it was just thinly amusing (Arrested Development).

R9, I am fairly new to Datalounge and have seen this gag a few times since and, it never fails to amuse me. I know it's silly and insubstantial, but when it comes to Meryl and Glenn, I can only imagine them as the Margo Channing/Eve Harrington, the Madeline Ashton/Helen Sharp, the Nomi Malone/Cristal Connors, and numerous other pairings I can't remember right now.

Oh the scenarios I could imagine! But I'm somewhat drunk and have some gay interracial scenes online I need to revisit, so I'm out.

(Oh, but R10, finding Andy attractive, like hold-him-facedown-in-the-mattress-while-I-fuck-the-everloving-shit-out-of-him, played a lot in my attraction to him. It was really nothing else on my end for a time.)

R24, Coburn was a high up member of the White Citizens' Council, as well as a sexual predator with the starlets on the sets of all his films. Fuck Charles Coburn.

Walter Brennan was a decent character actor (though hardly deserving of three Oscars--that's what led the Academy to remove extras from the rolls of voters--Brennan started as one and his cronies voted for him), but he was a virulent, outspoken, and unspent ant racist--reportedly, when the death of MLK was announced, he did a happy song and dance on set. Vile.

Irwin Charone. You know you're a bad actor when you're too cheesy on "Here's Lucy."

^^^ Pic I meant to link.

Charlotte Rae and Agnes Moorehead......their voices were so irritating and their delivery of lines was completely bizarre.

R34 Your taste is your business, but most critics consider Agnes Moorehead one of the great film actresses of the sound era. Her work for Orson Welles would itself provide strong support for that assertion.

Rae was wonderful in the first half of her career. She stayed too long with "Facts of Life" and did become shticky on it.

William Devane. I don't really hate any character actor, but I guess he would be someone creepy, IMO. This photo is supposedly from "Family Plot," which I liked.

R34 Marion Lorne should be added to your post!

Kathleen Freeman. Mainly because she was in all of those annoying Jerry Lewis movies and I don't really like his films without Dean Martin.

Yes, R31, Walter Brennan was scum too. I do take some comfort in knowing that his death from emphysema was painful and slow.

Who the hell are these people?

OP was bit by a dead bee!

Cheapskate R19, you thank me and then don't even give me a W&W.

Yes, OP. I loathe the insipid, inauthentic, hate-filled fascist Walter Brennan more than just about anyone else. Three fucking Oscars just because the craft people liked giving the finger to the studios. And Brenna dancing a jig and whooping with joy when he heard JFK was shot.

R41: sassy or truly that dumb?

Gale Gordon

Jeannette Fucking Nolan.

I'd use her to beat Walter Brennan to a pulp.

Peter Ustinov, who never actually played a role in his life, constantly putting on the same tired, so-wise, arch-but-indifferent pose that he thought was erudite and interesting.

No one better mention me.

I have sufficient and WILL cut a bitch

God how I used to hate Jeffrey Tambor with the passion of a thousand suns! I started to come around with Larry Sanders , then Arrested Development. Now that I know he’s a perv I’m back to hating him again.

Bruce Greenwood. I hate that I want to suck his dick.

Phil Davis - the British Gary Busey

Dan Hedaya

Off the top of my head, Steve Buscemi, Paul Giamatti, John C Reilly, Jack Palance, Hal Holbrook, Wilford Brimley, Christopher Walken, Oliver Platt.

Celeste Holm.

Walter Brennan has THREE Oscars

How many do you have OP?

That's what I thought CUNT

I FUCKING Hate this character actor

It's even worse when he plays a woman.

Yup. Like it or not, Walter Brennan was a veritable Oscar MACHINE!

The current character actor I HATE is Larry David. I just can't look at him. He should take his money and go away.

Judy Greer gets on my last nerve.

Oscar #1 Come and Get It

(with crazy Frances Farmer)

Oscar #2 Kentucky

with that whore Loretta Young

Oscar #3 The Westerner

With big dicked Gary Cooper

R47 Is Tambor a perv cuz he's attracted to the trans, or because he gave massages and kisses to the trans?

I forget these things ... like the meaning of life.

Pipe down, Tru.

Kate McKinnon

Eric Blore and Franklin Pangborn. Classic Hollywood's "go-to" pansies.

Lol R49. Spot on.

This godawful person. She hasn't changed her hair style or makeup since 1977. Every single thing about her is terrible. And a rabid Trumpster.

Olympia Dukakis

R65 There was a thread about Carrie a year ago or so. A few people mentioned meeting PJ in the past and that she was quite nice. Someone mentioned something about a Facebook or some social media video of PJ celebrating Trump's election.

I'll never understand the appeal of Jon Lovitz.

Is Steve Coogan considered a character actor? I can't stand him.

People disparaging Kathleen Freeman, Franklin Pangborn and Eric Blore?!?!?!,

All three absolute treasures!!!

Just lay off Edward Everett Horton and Charlie Ruggles.

Well, I have to go sit down and cry a little....

Christopher Walken. I'm supposed to like him, but I don't. He is such a weird looking man and I can never accept him as anyone other than Christopher Walken.

He does always play himself R71.