Uncle Leo & Josey Wales. Hello.

[StevenGuthmiller]

Another of my favorite character actors from more recent years is Barry Pepper.

 

He played sniper, private Daniel Jackson in "Saving Private Ryan", Dean Stanton in "The Green Mile", Joe Galloway in "We Were Soldiers", and Lucky Ned Pepper in the 2010 Coen Brother's remake of "True Grit".

 

 

 

Steve

[StevenGuthmiller]

One more favorite of mine is Michael Pena.

 

Ignacio in "Gone in 60 Seconds", Daniel in "Crash", Omar in "Million Dollar Baby", Jesus Martinez in "The Lincoln Lawyer", Gordo in "Fury", and Trevino in "The Mule", just to name a few.

 

 

 

Steve

[StevenGuthmiller]

If we want to talk about weird cameo appearances, how about Keith Richards in "Pirates of the Caribbean-At worlds End". 

 

Or, if you really want to get obscure, when Monty Python's "The Life of Brian" was about to start production, and the studio was about to pull the plug on the whole project, George Harrison, who had read the script and liked it, donated 4 million dollars of his own money to get it back on track.

Apparently, Harrison can be seen briefly in the movie, in a crowd, wearing a red turban.

 

 

 

Steve

[jaftygas]

12 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

Another of my favorite character actors from more recent years is Barry Pepper.

 

He played sniper, private Daniel Jackson in "Saving Private Ryan", Dean Stanton in "The Green Mile", Joe Galloway in "We Were Soldiers", and Lucky Ned Pepper in the 2010 Coen Brother's remake of "True Grit".

 

 

 

Steve

He also played Bill W in when love is not enough. Dr Bob and Bill W founded Alcoholics Anonymous. Barry Pepper is a great actor.

[Lunajammer]

21 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

Another of my favorite character actors from more recent years is Barry Pepper.

And a real, genuine, salt of the earth guy.

I had the pleasure to hang with him a little while when he visited Fargo for the showing of Billy Crystal's Roger Maris movie "61*." Crystal, Bob Costas and several cast members presented the film a few years ago. After the movie, a few celebs hung out to meet and greet. By late in the evening, only a handful of people remained in the theatre and Barry Pepper was one of them. With nothing left to do and no place to go, he just sat around visiting til whenever because he enjoyed the company.

And it was not all about him. He was curious and inquisitive about the rest of the gathered folks. He was quick to laugh and comfortable with strangers.

[StevenGuthmiller]

1 hour ago, Lunajammer said:

And a real, genuine, salt of the earth guy.

I had the pleasure to hang with him a little while when he visited Fargo for the showing of Billy Crystal's Roger Maris movie "61*." Crystal, Bob Costas and several cast members presented the film a few years ago. After the movie, a few celebs hung out to meet and greet. By late in the evening, only a handful of people remained in the theatre and Barry Pepper was one of them. With nothing left to do and no place to go, he just sat around visiting til whenever because he enjoyed the company.

And it was not all about him. He was curious and inquisitive about the rest of the gathered folks. He was quick to laugh and comfortable with strangers.

That's great information!

It's good to know that some of our favorite celebrities are just regular folks, and not narcissistic creeps like so many of them can be.

 

I haven't seen "61" yet, but I'll have to find it.

Especially since I work at the Roger Maris Cancer Center.

 

 

 

 

Steve

[thatz4u]

Wayne Brady was in the Heat of the Night, 1993, as Henry Ulmer, well acted

[BeakDoc]

Here’s a quirky nugget that I think might fall somewhere in this category. The man who wore the motion capture suit and whose movements and body type would end being the CGI Gollum in the LOTR trilogy was none other than Iggy Pop.