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SacredCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 04:36 PM
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Favorite supporting character in a movie?
I've got to go with Otho in Beetlejuice... He was just hysterically funny to me!
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 04:58 PM
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1. Donkey in Shrek
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 05:00 PM
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2. Ollie in 'The Mist'
:P
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 05:28 PM
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3. Jesus Quintana from the Big Lebowski
"HEY! What's this day of rest shit? What's this bullshit? I dont fucking care! It dont matter to Jesus!"
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:17 PM
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49. John Turturro knocked me out in "Miller's Crossing", too.


He is WAY underrated.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 05:35 PM
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4. Lots of good ones, but Tom Arnold in "True Lies" comes to mind
Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2

I'll think of more and post again later.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 06:56 PM
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9. good choice!
"The guy is a god damn used car salesman! This keeps getting better and better! But we still gotta kill him, that's a given."

:rofl:
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 09:44 PM
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17. Only part of the movie I liked.
Well, except the skin scenes, but I won't admit to that.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 05:41 PM
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5. Brooks from Shawshank Redemption
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 05:55 PM
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6. Cheech Marin in Tin Cup
Romeo: Well, David Simms may be a "soulless robot", but he's a rich, happy, soulless robot... with a beautiful doctor lady girlfried. Besides, how's getting in the Open going to change what she thinks about you?
McAvoy: Well, it'll show her that I'm not who she thinks I am.
Romeo: But you are who she thinks you are!
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 05:57 PM
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7. Othello in "Othello"
Iago's the star, of course.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:55 AM
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30. Self-delete. nt
Edited on Wed May-06-09 02:55 AM by BlueIris
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 05:57 PM
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8. Chief Dan George in "Little Big Man" or "The Outlaw Josey Wales"
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313381/
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 07:01 PM
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10. Cousin Vickie and Cousin Eddie from Vegas Vacation.
They steal the movie.
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 07:09 PM
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11. The Martin Short character in "Father of the Bride"
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:33 PM
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51. "Honk"
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 06:05 PM
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56. "De Chipper Chicken." n/t
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 07:21 PM
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12. A few more - Samwise Gamgee from the Lord of the Rings movies
Chewbacca from Star Wars 4 & 5

Ron & Hermione from the Harry Potter movies.
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triguy46 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 09:12 PM
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13. Rex "Rex-Kwan-Do" in Napolean Dynamite
Edited on Tue May-05-09 09:15 PM by triguy46
<a href="" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 09:18 PM
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14. The mayor in Slither
Hi-fucking-larious.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 09:33 PM
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15. Marty Feldman as "Igor" in Young Frankenstein.
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 09:43 PM
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16. Terri Garr....Veronica "Ronnie" Neary...
in Close Encounters of the Third Kind....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNEM8hy9Nl8


Tikki
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 09:48 PM
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18. Val Kilmer in Tombstone, Martin Landau in "Ed Wood."
Edited on Tue May-05-09 09:48 PM by jobycom
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 10:21 PM
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21. Kilmer, Tombstone. Thread over.
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 12:12 AM
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27. Holliday:"Wyatt Earp is a friend of mine"
"Friend? I got lots of friends."

Holliday: "I don't."


That made the movie.
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Doc_Technical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 10:14 PM
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19. Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Ron Leibman as Paul Lazzaro in
Slaughterhouse-five.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 06:11 PM
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58. You win!
Tuco is the best supporting character ever.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 10:16 PM
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20. I'll end this thread
Kevin Kline as Otto in "A Fish Called Wanda."

It's K-k-k-ken! He's c-coming to k-k-kill me!
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 11:02 AM
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41. Yep!
Won an Oscar for it, too. :)
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 10:21 PM
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22. Ned Logan, "Sexy Beast"
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 11:48 AM
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43. "If I gave a fuck about Don Logan!"
Edited on Wed May-06-09 11:49 AM by Forkboy
Logan goes beyond supporting character. :scared:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db5ptlxx1ZA
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InternalDialogue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 10:23 PM
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23. Hank Azaria as Agador in The Birdcage.
"She work hard for the money, enh-enh, enh-enh..."
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SacredCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 08:09 AM
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34. Oh, yeah- Another really good one! n/t
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 10:24 PM
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24. Harry Dean Stanton
Repo Man

although EVERYBODY was freaking GREAT in that movie!
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 11:18 PM
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25. Claude Raines in Casablanca.
Edited on Tue May-05-09 11:19 PM by Vidar
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mtowngman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-05-09 11:44 PM
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26. De niro as the priest in "Sleepers" n/t
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 12:15 AM
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28. Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall (harry potter)
Edited on Wed May-06-09 12:15 AM by ccharles000
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:38 PM
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52. Richard Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 12:18 AM
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29. Omar Sharif (and Anthony Quinn) in 'Lawrence of Arabia' (nt)
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 09:04 AM
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37. Alec Guinness, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Anthony Quayle, Jose Ferre, Jack Hawkins
O'Toole stood on big shoulders
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:56 AM
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31. Marissa Tomei in "My Cousin Vinny."
I guess. I had a really hard time answering this question.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 04:18 AM
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32. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Luke in Children of Men
yes INDEED :thumbsup:
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 05:36 AM
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33. Just one?
Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight's Tale and Dr Maturin in Master and Commander.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 12:36 PM
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45. good picks
His Chaucer was a lot of fun in that movie.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:13 PM
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48. Bettany does good side kick.
Not only fun, but written and played realistically.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 08:18 AM
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35. Ralph Bellamy in "His Girl Friday"
"He looks like that actor...Ralph Bellamy!"
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 08:54 AM
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36. Thelma Ritter in ANYTHING. nt
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TheCentepedeShoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 06:13 PM
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59. I love her
esp in Rear Window
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 09:04 AM
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38. John Goodman - Raising Arizona. Hell, John Goodman in any Coen Bros. movie
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 09:05 AM
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39. John Tuturro, The Big Lebowski
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Glorfindel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 09:46 AM
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40. Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey
in the "Lord of the Rings" movies. Also Val Kilmer in "Tombstone." Magical performances, both. And it would be a shame to neglect Shirley Knight and Greg Kinnear in "As Good as It Gets."
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 11:04 AM
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42. Teri Garr in "Tootsie"
Edited on Wed May-06-09 11:04 AM by Mad_Dem_X
"A guy named Les is sending you candy?" "Why is he thanking you for a lovely night in front of the fire?"

Absolutely brilliant comedic performance.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 11:51 AM
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44. Brad Pitt in Snatch.
"Fuck it! I'll do the fight for free!"
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 12:38 PM
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46. She's partial to the periwinkle blue, boys.
Great performance.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:52 PM
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53. Could have picked Brick Top just as easily.
:)
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 12:41 PM
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47. Darryl Revok
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edhopper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 01:17 PM
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50. Ned Beatty as Otis in Superman
"Otisberg!?!"
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:15 PM
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54. "OSTISBERG!!??"
"It's amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving."

Hackman certainly deserves mention, total hoot as Luthor.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 04:41 PM
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55. Val Kilmer in Tombstone .......... by far.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 06:09 PM
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57. Bill Pullman in Ruthless People
Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda
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