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That Guy Came upon one of the most useful sites on the Internet: Hey! It's That Guy! What a great idea, compiling a bunch of character actors most of us have seen and recognize from movies and TV over the years but have no idea what their names are. Of course, my favorite Mako is on the list. And like Mako, quite a good number of these guys are dead. Some of these people are probably a little too famous to count. Curtis "Booger" Armstrong is a bit of a stretch as one of That Guys. Who doesn't know Curtis Armstrong as Booger? Same with Clint Howard, Ron Howard's uglier but just as prolific brother. James Cromwell is also pretty famous; as Zephram Cochrane in Star Trek and the farmer in Babe. "That'll do, pig." Giovanni Ribisi? He's played how many retards in how many movies? Too many if you ask me. It's amazing, as someone who has watched a lot of TV and movies from the 60's to the present, how many of That Guys I can place from stuff I've seen. For example, Ronny Cox was Dick Jones of OCP in Robocop. He was also the President in that shitty Captain America movie from the early 90's. Donald Moffat was the President Harrison Ford yelled at in Clear and Present Danger. "How dare you, sir!" Pat Hingle was Commissioner Gordon in four Batman movies. Vincent Schiavelli was the head of the Red Triangle Gang in Batman Returns. I could go on and on. Some of these guys have had incredibly prolific careers spanning decades as guys who you recognize but never placed their names. James Hong is pretty incredible: he has 297 IMDB listings. And he's still alive and working. You know who lucked out? Terry O'Quinn. He got off this list probably for good thanks to Lost. If I have one particular favorite from this listing of That Guys who isn't Mako, it's gotta be Jack Elam. Now, there was a good looking man. It was driving me nuts trying to remember where I knew him from until it hit me: He was the crazy, slobbering drunk doctor in Burt Reynolds and Dom De Louise's ambulance in Cannonball Run. Ah, Cannonball Run, they don't make 'em like that anymore. For a googley-eyed weirdo, he was incredibly employable. His career lasted almost fifty years. The only google-eyed celebrity that comes even close to his career is the Cookie Monster and Cookie's really only been on one show. There'll never another quite like Jack Elam, unfortunately.
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