Your Favorite Supporting Actors

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  1. Hal Pollner

    Hal Pollner Veteran Member
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    This includes Character Actors.
    Mine have always been:

    John Ireland
    Dan Duryea
    Elisha Cook Jr.
    Simon Oakland
    Lee Van Cleef
    Richard Jaeckel

    There are others...
    Hal
     
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    Without Supporting and Character Actors, those in the starring roles would seem dull and without contrast.

    Hal
     
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    Don't forget Walter Brennan (such as in Sergeant York) and Jack Palance (in Shane) - two of my favorite movies.
     
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    Strother Martin
    Jack Elam
    Claude Akins
    John Astin
    Slim Pickens
     
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  5. Hal Pollner

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    Very Good, members!

    Strother Martin was one of my faves, too!
     
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    • Right, Hugh...Walter "Jack" Palance was a real meanie in Shane !
     
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    Also, the "Bad Guys" were sometimes known as "Heavies".
    h.p.
     
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    I was just mentioning Eli Wallach in the Westerns thread.
     
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    Lots of them. I don't recognize most of the new ones.

    Some of the old time ones:

    Burgess Meredith
    Ward Bond
    George Kennedy
    Donald Crisp
    Melvin Douglas
     
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  10. Hal Pollner

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    Hey, yeah, Nancy!

    Hal
     
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