All absolutely accurate, and I’d just like to add that if
you find old-time actors hot, you’re also going to be looking at a lot of:
Or:
you know, i know people normally balk at additions to their posts, but this hits a both magical and super-obscure sweet spot that, as a one-time old hollywood fan, i can say is true 😂
Try finding early Bogart films.
“Secondary Gangster”
“Primary Gangster”
“Mean Gangster”
“Sad Gangster
“Inexplicable Vampire”
Trying to find Charles Dance roles:
“Menacing old man with good dialogue”
“Menacing old man with bad dialogue”
“Obstructive bureaucrat”
“Morally ambiguous bureaucrat”
“Whiny old man in a wig”
“Oh look, he is not an antagonist this time!”
Obscure British Actors
Harry Potter and the Cameo on That One Episode of Foyles War
Villain in Piss Poor American Action Film
The cop that has a week left on the force who dies motivating the hero to…I didn’t actually watch the rest of the movie to be honest
Starring role in TV series erased by the BBC because they ran out of storage
Supporting part in Made for TV musical adaptation of novel that probably should never have been adapted as a musical
Minor part in six hour mini series starring Richard Chamberlain
Lead in Italian Horror movie only obtainable by finding a gnome in the forest and making unwise promises to him
Actually good movie that has been re-recorded so many times that is like watching a white moth fluttering around in a bright light
Small part in a movie that has the exact same name as another movie that came out the same year and you keep getting the wrong one…
Art film
Made for School’s Programming
Villain in anti-drugs propaganda film made by Interpol as part of community service
It’s hard to stop thinking of more:
MGM Musical (1951) as Relative with a Middle-European accent
Classic Courtroom Drama (1957) as Solicitor only there to introduce the Barrister who’s the actual important character
Up the Siege of Troy (1959) as “Patsy” Patroclus
Hammer Gorefest (1968) as Aged Villager
Numinous Britcom (1982-3) (cancelled midway through second series) as Possibly supernatural commercial traveller
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