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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 25, 2024 11:23:20 GMT -5
I'm also reminded of actor Raymond Burr. Many of his early roles he played a menacing gangster type. His best evil character was in Hitchcock's 1954 Rear Window. Once the TV show Perry Mason began in 1957 it all changed for him Raymond Burr has a pretty good role as the heavy in Borderline, with Claire Trevor and Fred McMurray.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 25, 2024 12:48:17 GMT -5
I'm also reminded of actor Raymond Burr. Many of his early roles he played a menacing gangster type. His best evil character was in Hitchcock's 1954 Rear Window. Once the TV show Perry Mason began in 1957 it all changed for him Ramen burger has it pretty good role as the heavy in Borderline, with Claire Trevor and Fred McMurray. Ramen Burger? Sounds like a weird fusion cuisine restaurant.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 25, 2024 13:01:01 GMT -5
I found it interesting to see Stewart Granger, in The Wild Geese, after seeing him in swashbucklers, like The Prisoner of Zenda and Scaramouche, as well as stuff like King Solomon's Mines. In The Wild Geese, he is a merchant banker who funds a mercenary force in a mission to rescue a deposed leader, in Africa, before a rival can kill him. He is heavily invested in mining concerns and the current dictator has nationalized their interests, so he wants the mercenary leader, played by Richard Burton, to get the deposed rival out, before he is executed, to then build a revolution around him and regain power and control of the mines. He then uses the mission as a negotiating tool with the current government and signs new agreements, then sells out the mercenaries, by ordering their extraction aircraft to leave them behind. They then have to fight their way out of the country and get to a small airstrip, with a DC-3 that can fly them across the border, before government troops can catch them. Granger is suitably oily and has a 6 ft stick up his backside, acting the ultra-conservative City financial baron, even to the point of intimidating a mafia don into dropping a contract on one of the mercenary officers, who murdered a "family" (in both sense of the word, in crime circles) member who conned him into delivering drugs. He threatens to use the newspapers he controls to make operations impossible, due to the publicity, unless they drop the contract. The boss agrees to avoid the headache and because the kid's operations were unsanctioned.
You can't wait for Granger to receive justice, in the film, especially with some of the things that happen, along the way.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 25, 2024 13:48:50 GMT -5
Ramen burger has it pretty good role as the heavy in Borderline, with Claire Trevor and Fred McMurray. Ramen Burger? Sounds like a weird fusion cuisine restaurant. Oops! I’ve been walking dogs at the rescue and running errands this morning and somehow it came out “Ramen Burger” in the rush. That’s supposed to say “Raymond Burr.” It’s fixed! But now I’m hungry for a Ramen Burger!
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 25, 2024 13:54:31 GMT -5
There are a few actors I only recall seeing in heroic roles: Dirk Benedict, Don Johnson and Peter Graves come to mind. I’d like to see any villainous roles they’ve played. Peter Graves is the Nazi snitch in Stalag 17. The POWs beat him up when they find out he’s been planted in the barracks to spy on them for the Nazis who run the camp.
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 25, 2024 22:29:37 GMT -5
Interesting that none of you have mentioned Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd.
Not exactly Mr. Wholesome Q. Niceguy.
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Post by berkley on Sept 26, 2024 0:07:20 GMT -5
One example of an actor playing against type that I only came across just now while looking up something else is A Man Called Sledge in which, to quote the wikipedia page, James Garner stars "in an extremely offbeat role as a grimly evil thief".
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