Have A Seat On The Casting Couch

[cmort666]

Richard Boone as Grimes in 'Hombre'. Gads what a mean _____!

Richard Boone as the villain in "Big Jake". He was sort of an affable Anton Chigurh.

 

[cmort666]

Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men". He was so emotionlessly menacing, he made Schwarzenneger's "Terminator" look like Stewart Smalley. He was more like the lions in "The Ghost and the Darkness" than most conventional movie villains.

 

[cmort666]

And speaking of another movie sociopath, Robert Mitchum in "Cape Fear". He's right up there with Heath Ledger as the "Joker".

 

[Alnamvet68]

Lon Chaney, Jr in "The Wolf Man".

 

[feralmerril]

Jack palance in shane

 

[jframe]

Henry Fonda in "Once Upon a Time in the West". Such a surprise to see him playing a bad guy. Joe Don Baker in the original "Walking Tall". What actor today could potray a rough, tough Tennessee sheriff so convincingly? Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in "Tombstone". And, don't forget, Larry Hagman as the lovable J.R. Ewing in the original "Dallas" TV series.

 

[rwsmith]

Richard Boone

Has anyone mentioned Richard Boone as Paladin?

CW

I would say Richard Boone as Grimes in 'Hombre'. I don't think I've ever seen a meaner sucka.

 

[semperfi71]

Jack palance in shane

Agree-A-Mundo...he did not have to say much, he did not have to "act": he oozed lethality.

Supposedly he was afraid of the buckskin horse he was riding in the movie. That is why he slowly re-mounts in the scene at the farm house where he first meets Shane. He was afraid the horse would throw him...again...as it already had. So as he slowly remounted he looked extra sinister while wholly unplanned to be so.

Supposedly he was also new to horses and therefore not an accomplished rider. They tried several scenes with him riding the Buckskin into town at several different paces. All of them belied his "tenderfoot ways" a-horseback. Finally they did the scene as it appears in the movie. Jack and the Buckskin at a slow trot or it might have been a low canter. It appeared Jack looked like he knew what he was doing and it as a "take". As well again it made Jake Palance (Wilson) appear sinister without any real acting.

 

[rwsmith]

Joe Don Baker

Henry Fonda in "Once Upon a Time in the West". Such a surprise to see him playing a bad guy. Joe Don Baker in the original "Walking Tall". What actor today could potray a rough, tough Tennessee sheriff so convincingly?

Joe Don Baker looked a heck of a lot more like the real Buford Pusser than Bo Svenson ever could. Why in the world did they pick Svenson for that part?

 

[mjr]

I liked Woodward's role as the ex-CIA guy who helped out people who were being bullied. What was the name of that show?

The Equalizer. Available through Netflix.