{"id":9685,"date":"2006-05-11T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T23:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/05\/11\/character-actors.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:26:02","slug":"character_actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/11\/character_actor.html","title":{"rendered":"Character actors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone’s list of ten character actors who should be in every film<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So I’m looking at this, appalled that I don’t recognize a single name …<\/p>\n

… except … <\/p>\n

Hmmm … Gary Cole<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Then I realize where I saw him before — going through my Crusade<\/a><\/em> collection<\/a>, where Cole played Captain Matthew Gideon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And then, checking out the IMDB listing for him … good Lord, he’s been in a ton of stuff, from Office Space <\/em>to American Gothic <\/em>(Sheriff Lucas Buck) to Kim Possible <\/em>(Dr. Possible) to The West Wing <\/em>(VP Bob Russell). <\/p>\n

Huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone’s list of ten character actors who should be in every film. So I’m looking at this, appalled that I don’t recognize a single name … … except … Hmmm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9348,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/sayonara_mako.html","url_meta":{"origin":9685,"position":0},"title":"Sayonara, Mako","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Jul-06 9:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"Mako, one of the dozen Oriental character actors that probably anyone could recognize (by face or voice) has died at 72. 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