Actors who showed up in one scene and stole the movie

[Miles Archer]

Saw this on a Website this morning. One of the actors they named was Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross.

Who says you need top billing to be the star of the movie? Sometimes, you watch a flick and you walk away delightfully entertained by a bit part cameo, and that’s all you remember.

Check out these examples below. They only had maybe 10 min in the entire film, but they own those minutes and elevate the movie into something great.

Gotta earn that coffee. It’s for closers only.

http://thechive.com/2018/05/30/actors-who-showed-up-in-one-scene-and-stole-the-movie-18-photos/

YOUR picks?

[Zoonart]

1. Christopher Walken - TRUE ROMANCE

also... Gary Oldman- TRUE ROMANCE

[Miles Archer]

2. Yeah, that movie was epic. Walken and Oldman were both brilliant.

James Gandolfini's scene with Patricia Arquette was beyond brutal.

[Callmecrazy]

17. The greatest monologue in history...

[mr_lebowski]

28. I love that this was the first perf mentioned in the thread ... Walken & Hopper

Cause it's exactly what I was gonna give for my answer ...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

3. More than one scene... Neil Patrick Harris in the Harold and Kumar movies

He was great in those movies.

[bronxiteforever]

4. Judy Dench as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love

Oscar win for 8 minutes but wow.

[Guilded Lilly]

5. Sean Connery in Kevin Costner version of Robin Hood.

I love Costner. (Always will) But suddenly he seemed like he was a 19 year old kid in this scene!
Robin Who???

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Michael Parks in Kill Bill II

[sharp_stick]

7. Matt Damon in Eurotrip

Scotty Doesn't Know. A criminally underrated raunchy comedy.

[Initech]

15. Matt Damon was also in Thor: Ragnarok.

[NewJeffCT]

18. Damon is also in Deadpool 2

small role as well.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. Jack Nicholson cameo in BROADCAST NEWS.....

Very scene stealing to say the least.

[Ohiya]

9. Marcel Marceau....

In Mel Brook's Silent Movie

[global1]

10. Charles Grodin In The Movie "Dave".....nt

[shanny]

30. +1

[First Speaker]

11. Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider...

...that made him a star..."you know, this used to be one hell of a good country"...

[Dave Starsky]

12. Jar-Jar Binks in Star Wars Episode III

I burst into tears when he appeared at Padme's funeral. Really powerful stuff.

[Leith]

13. Patrick Stewart in Robin Hood Men in Tights

But I like the song'n'dance scene the best.

And Blinkin. He was funny.

[Initech]

14. Stan Lee as the strip club DJ in Deadpool!

"You can't buy love but you can rent it for 3 minutes!"

[Initech]

16. Danny Trejo in Anchorman

[Brother Buzz]

19. Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore

[NewJeffCT]

23. That's the scene everybody remembers from that movie

The Price is Wrong Bob...

I couldn't tell you anything else about that movie.

[jmowreader]

20. Steve Martin in Little Shop of Horrors

[Beartracks]

32. Yessssss

[sarge43]

21. Gene Hackman, Young Frankenstein

[DFW]

36. Definitely!

That was my pick as well.

Although Ned Beatty in "Network" was one hell of a strong contender:

[TuxedoKat]

22. Rutger Hauer in Bladerunner

You go from hating and fearing him throughout the entire movie until the end when he gives such a powerful monologue you completely change your feelings about his character.

[AmandaRuth]

24. Mos Def as Chuck Berry in Cadillac Records

i love music movies, but this movie was boring and expected until Mos Def came on as Chuck Berry and got boring again when the character was done

[Brother Buzz]

25. Wolfman Jack in American Graffiti

I'm guessing George Lucas used to dial in his AM radio to XERB late at night, just like me.

[mpcamb]

37. Good one. Agree.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

26. Bill Murray in Zombieland. nt

[nolabear]

42. That was my first thought.

[spooky3]

27. Bronson Pinchot in Beverly Hills Cop

The scene in the gallery was funny.

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[shanny]

29. Bill Murray in just about anything.

Steals more scenes than dogs do.

[applegrove]

31. Martin Short in Father of the Bride.

[mr_lebowski]

33. Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder

I guess that may've been a couple scenes but he wasn't in the movie much, when he was, he was pretty awesome.

Also:

Harvey Keitel - Pulp Fiction

Peter Stormare in Minority Report ... didn't 'steal the movie' but he's brilliant in his one scene as the underground eyeball replacement guy. So's the lady who helped Max Von Sydow character develop the pre-cog program, the one with the trippy plants that Cruise goes to out in the woods where he finds out about the minority report. They're pretty much my two fave scenes in that flick.

[pnwmom]

34. Viola Davis in DOUBT,

the most gripping 7 minutes in the movie.

[Snellius]

35. Rooney Mara in Social Network

Erica Albright : You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

38. I liked Ben Stein's economics lecture in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[Midwestern Democrat]

39. Dudley Moore in "Foul Play".

This may be one of the biggest career trajectory changing roles in Hollywood history - Moore, at 43, was hardly a household name in America at the time of "Foul Play" but on the strength of the reception from this small role, Blake Edwards was able to cast him in the lead in "10" (after Peter Sellers turned it down and George Segal walked off the film) - which briefly made Moore a superstar.

[Wolf Frankula]

40. One that SHOULD have happened.

George Burns, as God, in The Exorcist. George comes in and looks at little Regan, played by Linda Blair, on the bed. The demon starts to rage at him. He says, calmly and quietly, "Shut up." She falls on the bed. He puts his hand on her forehead and says, "Git." The demon says, "We gone!" She relaxes on the bed. God does a little song and dance shuffle and walks out.

Wolf

[GoCubsGo]

41. Billy Crystal and Carol Kane in "A Princess Bride."