The best movies for bad actors.

[Damien01]

Ok, being a great Richard Lynch fan, I was thinking of his better movies and then I do remember he did Bad Dreams (which could be his greatest picture at the time) and was thinking of other "Bad" actors that got a break thru in the movies. I'm talking about 4 star megahits... Say what... Think of it...

Richard Lynch... Bad Dreams

Chuck Norris... Code of Silence*

Charles Bronson... Death Wish

Jack Palance... City Slickers

John Saxon... Nightmare of Elm Street

Peter Cushing... Star Wars

Christopher Lee... Lord of the Rings

Sure most of those actors played in many great earier films but I talking about the mega hit movie...

The only true questionable on my list is Chuck Norris, his only movie to be given 4 stars that I know of is Code of Silence... even thou he is known for being in Missing in Action, and "USSR's most talked about movie" Invasion USA...

What do you think... :D

[Fearless Freep]

Lance Henrickson in "Aliens"

FWIW Charles Bronson was in "The Magnificent Seven" and Jack Palance was in "Batman"

For what it's worth, I don't consider most of those actors as 'bad actors', they just spend a decent amount of time in some...questionable movie career choices



Post Edited (06-03-03 15:24)

[Damien01]

Slightly agree... but whatever the case is that they have gone a long way to get a mega hit or to be in a 4 star movie...

As for Bronson... Sure he was in "The Magnificent Seven" "The Great Escape " and "The Dirty Dozen" but I think people will think of him more from "Death Wish" then any other movie. (I do think his movie "The Stone Killer" and "10 to Midnight" are some of his better movies too... but that is me)

As for Jack Palance I havent seen Batman in years and dont recall his character... But I do remember the oscers seemed to kiss his feet from City Slickers... (Its kind of funny when you think of it)

[The Burgomaster]

And don't forget Bronson's REALLY early stuff, like HOUSE OF WAX and MACHINE GUN KELLY . . .

[alandhopewell]

And don't forget Bronson's REALLY early stuff, like HOUSE OF WAX and MACHINE GUN KELLY . . .

     How about JACK NICHOLSON in THE RAVEN, CRY-BABY KILLER, and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS?

[The Burgomaster]

As for Bronson, I watched him in another early role over the weekend:  MASTER OF THE WORLD, with Vincent Price.  Bronson seemed to devolve from a "serviceable," "decent" actor to a hack once he got mixed up with Golan and Globus and directors like Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson (although, some of their Bronson features were okay before they started churning them out on a production line).  Bronson was fine in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE GREAT ESCAPE, MASTER OF THE WORLD, BREAKHEART PASS, ST. IVES, and some other features.  Stuff like DEATH WISH 3 and ASSASSINATION sunk his credibility.