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Alan Blumenfeld

Alan Blumenfeld (Born September 4, 1952) is a veteran American character actor best known for his role in NBC's TV series Heroes as Maury Parkman, the telepath father of Matt Parkman played by Greg Grunberg, and as Bob Buss in the telefilm 2gether.

Bruce Glover

Bruce Herbert Glover (born May 2, 1932) is an American character actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of the assassin Mr. Wint in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

Catherine Kellner

Catherine Kellner (born October 2, 1970) is an American character actress, perhaps best known for appearing in Daft Punk's music-video for their song Da Funk.

Cliff Osmond

Cliff Osmond (born Clifford Osman Ebrahim) (February 26, 1937 - December 22, 2012) was an American character actor and television screenwriter best known for appearing in films directed by Billy Wilder.

Diane Shalet

Diane Shalet (February 23, 1935 - February 23, 2006 Palm Springs, California) was an American Broadway and television character actress.

Dody Goodman

Dolores "Dody" Goodman (October 28, 1914 – June 22, 2008) was an American character actress known for her playing the mother of the title character (played by Louise Lasser) on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

Forrest Taylor

Forrest Taylor (December 29, 1883 – February 19, 1965) was an American character actor whose artistic career spanned six different decades, from silents through talkies to the advent of color.

Guillermo Rivas

Guillermo Rivas Rowlatt (December 25, 1927 – March 19, 2004) was a Mexican character actor known for portraying "El Borras" in the Telesistema Mexicano sitcom Los Beverly de Peralvillo (1968–1973).

Jack Norton

Jack Norton (September 2, 1882 – October 15, 1958) was an American stage and film character actor who appeared in 184 films between 1934 and 1948, often playing drunks, although in real life he was a teetotaler.

Long Beach Studios

Long Beach Studios is managed by Jay Samit, a former Sony and Universal executive and Jack O'Halloran, a former boxer and character actor.

Mark Donovan

Mark Donovan (born 12 October 1968) is a Welsh character actor best known for grotesque roles in productions such as Shaun of the Dead, Black Books, In Bruges, and Murder Investigation Team.

Martin Weinek

Martin Weinek (born June 30, 1964 in Leoben, Styria) is an Austrian actor, character actor, wine producer, entrepreneur and entertainer, perhaps best known for his role in the television series Inspector Rex (as Inspector Fritz Kunz).

Newman and Baddiel in Pieces

Albert was an elderly "character actor" (played by Denys Graham) who would occasionally interrupt either of the performers to ask if he could play a role in the next sketch in order to earn money to pay for a dialysis machine for his daughter Sally, whose picture he would look at from within a locket.

Parvesh Cheena

Parvesh Singh Cheena (born July 22, 1979 in Elk Grove, Illinois) is an Indian-American character actor.

Raymond Castellani

He is a former character actor, Skid Row alcoholic, and from humble beginnings in 1987, the founder of the Frontline Foundation, which serves meals to the homeless on the Los Angeles Skid Row.

Robert Sacchi

Robert Sacchi (born March 3, 1941 in Bronx, New York) is an American character actor who, since the 1970s, has been known for his close resemblance to Humphrey Bogart.

Sally Mansfield

Marie Mahder (December 13, 1920 – January 28, 2001), best known by her stage name Sally Mansfield, was an American television character actress; she also had a few small roles in feature films including one with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Second Effort

The film also featured veteran character actor Ron Masak and other members of the Green Bay Packers organization, including offensive lineman Jerry Kramer.

The People Next Door

Set in Covington, Ohio, The People Next Door starred Jeffrey Jones, previously regarded as a character actor, as cartoonist Walter Kellogg, a man whose imagination was so vivid that many of the things which he imagined materialized immediately.

Tim McIntire

Tim McIntire (July 19, 1944 – April 15, 1986) was an American character actor, probably most famous for his portrayal of disc jockey Alan Freed in the film American Hot Wax (1978).

William Frederick Knight

He is a character actor of sorts, often cast in the role of a wise old man, such as in Ghost in the Shell (as Daisuke Aramaki), The Big O (as Gordon Rosewater), Paranoia Agent (as the old man), and Eureka Seven (as Kuzemi, one of the three Sages).

William J. Humphrey

In the late silent era, Humphrey, with other original Vitagraph actors such as Florence Turner, Maurice Costello, and Flora Finch, was kept on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer payroll for expert playing of character roles.


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Andrew Földi

During the next two decades, Foldi established himself as a character actor of the first rank in opera houses throughout Europe and the U.S., among them La Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Zurich Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, Cincinnati Zoo Opera and Santa Fe Opera.

Ashwini Kalsekar

She is married to film and television character actor Murali Sharma.

Ben Piazza

A prolific television and film character actor, Piazza is perhaps most widely recognized as the wealthy restaurant patron in The Blues Brothers from whom John Belushi offers to purchase his wife and daughter.

Bocaue, Bulacan

Pro basketball player Billy Mamaril and pastor and two-time presidential candidate Eddie Villanueva are also from the town, as is Lauro Delgado, a former veteran character actor of Premiere Productions in the early 1950s, '60s and late '70s.

Chubby Oates

Chubby Oates born Arthur Oates (23 December 1942 – 10 November 2006) was a Cockney clubland comic and character actor.

Cornelius Rost

In 1959 Rost's story was the subject of a six-part television adaption, starring the German character actor Heinz Weiss.

Dan Duryea

He also appeared twice on the big screen with his son, character actor Peter Duryea, in the low-budget Westerns Taggart (1964) and The Bounty Killer (1965).

Daniel Wells

Danny Wells (born 1941), Canadian movie and television character actor

De Lancie

John de Lancie, character actor best known for his role as recurring guest star Q on the various Star Trek series

Dick Israel

Ricardo Vizcarra Michaca (Born 10 December 1949 in Porac, Pampanga, Philippines), popularly known as Dick Israel, is a notable Filipino character actor who played mostly villain and sidekick roles in practically most of Filipino movies.

Emil Meyer

Torben Meyer (Torbin Emil Meyer, 1884–1975), Danish character actor

Everett Glass

Everett Glass (23 July 1891 – 22 March 1966) was an American character actor who appeared in more than eighty films and television shows from the 1940s through the 1960s, including Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and episodes of Adventures of Superman, Lassie, and Perry Mason.

Florence Meyer

In 1939, Meyer married the Austrian character actor Oskar Homolka (1898–1978).

François Sully

:Note: The "François Sully" credited in The Foreman Went to France (1942) was British character actor Francis L. Sullivan.

Hermann von Dechend

His daughter Susanne (1859–1929) married the Prussian army officer Hugo von Kathen (1855–1932), while his granddaughter Adelgunde Margaret Beatrice von Dechend (1911–1983) was the wife of the Welsh character actor Hugh Emrys Griffith (1912–1980).

Jack Rice

A versatile character actor with an extenisve resume both in motion pictures and television, He appeared in the films Son of Flubber (1963), That Touch of Mink (1962), Ransom'!

Jaro Fürth

Fürth would transition to the era of sound film with ease, and would become a notable character actor throughout the late 1920s and 1930s, appearing in such films as Georg Wilhelm Pabst's drama Diary of a Lost Girl opposite American actress Louise Brooks and Karel Lamač's 1931 film adaptaion of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, opposite Czech actress Anny Ondra.

John F. Landry

John Francois Landry is a British character actor born in Nairobi, Kenya.

Josef Sommer

Though a much-respected and lauded thespian of more than one artistic medium, performance-wise, this seasoned character actor got the chance to play a rare leading role—opposite the titular-titled, eponymous character played by Sylvia Kristel—as a film noir-esque detective in the quirky, little-seen, tiny cult horror-comedy Dracula's Widow from 1988, a role that Sommer truly appeared to have relished, as reflected by his creatively colorful and enthusiastic performance.

Joseph Kerrigan

J. M. Kerrigan, character actor who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Kenne Duncan

Kenne Duncan (February 17, 1903 – February 5, 1972) was a Canadian-born B-movie character actor.

Mary Maurice

She, Russell Bassett, Sarah Bernhardt, W. Chrystie Miller, Ruby Lafayette, Kate Meek(b. 1838), the veteran character actor Matt B. Snyder and Harold Lloyd regular Anna Townsend were the eight oldest people working in film during the 1910s.

Marya Carter

She was married to Steve Ihnat, a character actor best known for playing Fleet Captain Garth of Izar in the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy".

Maurice Manson

Maurice Manson (January 31, 1913, in Toronto, Canada – September 21, 2002) was a character actor who appeared in several film and Broadway productions.

Mike Fink

In 1955, Mike Fink (as portrayed by character actor Jeff York) appeared in two episodes of the Davy Crockett miniseries of ABC's Disneyland opposite the popular Davy Crockett (portrayed by Fess Parker).

Mr. Edwards

Victor French, a close friend of series creator Michael Landon and a character actor who had acted in several television westerns beforehand, portrayed the role throughout most of the series run.

MyAnna Buring

She attended secondary school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman, with her childhood friend Stegath Dorr, who is a character actor and a prolific horror filmmaker.

Nat Jackley

In the final decades of his career, he became a character actor in such films as 1956's Stars in Your Eyes and 1984's The Ploughman's Lunch.

Norman Coburn

Norman Coburn (born 6 April 1937 in Sydney) is an Australian television character-actor, notable for his roles primarily in soap operas, most especially his long standing role as Donald Fisher in Home And Away but also for films.

Operation Bikini

While Operation Bikini was nominally a World War II war movie, it shared a number of cast members — Avalon, Jody McCrea, and Eva Six — with American International's Beach Party (soon to become a franchise), and thrown into the mix were character actor Jim Backus, former screen heartthrob Tab Hunter, and Gary Crosby (son of Bing).

Poul Reichhardt

Besides his many popular roles Reichhardt also, mostly on stage, emerged into a respected character actor (Biff and later Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Archie in Osborne's The Entertainer, several Shakespeare roles).

Prithvi Zutshi

Prithvi Zutshi is an Indian film and television character actor who is best known for his television roles of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Pradhanmantri (TV Series),Apaharan,Sahara One's Haunted Nights.

ReelHeART International Film Festival

1st Place Feature Film: Encounters, UK, Pat Kelman, Director, Jonty Reason, Producer on behalf of Pittot Films NB Directorial debut of well-known British Character actor Pat Kelman ("Lighthouse", "The Odyssey")

Return to Green Acres

This movie was the final acting performance of character actor Frank Cady, who played Mr. Drucker, the Hooterville general store proprietor, who was featured concurrently on both Green Acres and the sister CBS sitcom from which it was spun off, Petticoat Junction; Cady died in 2012.

Richard Stang

(Stang’s first cousin, the respected character actor Arnold Stang, was also born in Brooklyn, in 1918.)

Robert Gerringer

Robert Gerringer (May 12, 1926-November 8, 1989) was an American character actor perhaps best known as Dr. Dave Woodard on the soap opera cum cult TV series Dark Shadows, a role he played during 1967.

Saurabh Dubey

Saurabh Dubey is an Indian film and television character actor who is best known for his television roles of Jawaharlal Nehru in Pradhanmantri (TV Series),Apaharan,Kairi — Rishta Khatta Meetha.

Spectreman

The English dubbing was co-written and performed by character actor Mel Welles, who is best known for his performance in the original film version of "The Little Shop of Horrors".

The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street

British character actor Arthur Treacher lent punctilio to the proceedings, with commentaries from guest performers.

The Lateness of the Hour

Familiar character actor John Hoyt (1905–1991) frequently portrayed intellectuals, including a number of mad scientists (1958's Attack of the Puppet People).

The Living Christ Series

Character actor Lawrence Dobkin also appeared in the series, and Will Wright, perhaps most famous for appearing as Ben Weaver on several episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, was somewhat incongruously cast as Herod.

The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down

It was sung by an off-screen chorus with occasional lines sung by veteran character actor Sterling Holloway who provided the voice of Pooh.

Todd Karns

Todd Karns was the son of Mary Fraso and character actor Roscoe Karns.

Tom Thurman

Thurman began his role as director with a documentary on the late Kentucky character actor Warren Oates in 1992.

Tony Steedman

Tony Steedman (21 August 1927 - 4 February 2001) was an English character actor, perhaps best known for roles in British TV drama series of the 1970s and 1980s and for his role as Socrates in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Weinek

Martin Weinek (born 1964, Leoben), an Austrian actor, character actor, wine producer, entrepreneur and entertainer

William Walling

Will Walling, character actor in 1920s films, sometimes credited as William Walling