WHo plays the best hollywood loser?

[HEyHEY]

Poll question: WHo plays the best hollywood loser?

I may not have them all, I can't remember so explain if you post one. My vote is Randy Quaid, all those cousin eddie roles do it for me!

[hippiechick]

1. Gary Oldman

He was awesome in The Professional as a small-time criminal/pimp, and in Basquiat as a sorta-discovered artist.

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2. Ned Beatty

How many times has anyone seen him in a movie or TV show; doesn't know his name, but knows him as the guy who "squealed like a pig" in Deliverance? Talk about a bad career move.

[mitchum]

26. It would have been even worse if poor Ned had become typecast

"We've got this role for a pudgy middle-aged man who goes to prison" or "We're casting this movie about a Turkish vacation that goes horribly wrong"

[DoNotRefill]

3. Steve Buscemi....

That rat face does it for me....

[xray s]

5. Beat me to it

Always in a "lose/lose" situation


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[Rick Myers]

7. Same here

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Yes!

In Fargo, Ghost World, Living in Oblivion--

whenever you see Steve Buscemi show up in a movie, you know that his character is not going to have a happy time of it.

[DS1]

11. some trivia

in every Coen brothers movie with Steve, barring two, he dies, and ends up in successively smaller pieces.

the last two I remember, there is the woodchipper for Fargo.
Then ashes for the Big Lebowski

(those are the only two I can remember)

[peekaloo]

25. Mink in Miller's Crossing

face eaten by birds in the woods.

[oustemnow]

13. I was shocked--shocked!--not to see him on the list

I'm not a big movie fan by any stretch, but I clicked on this thread fully expecting to throw down a vote for him.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

27. yep, the 'funny-lookin' guy

[Lisa]

4. He hasn't done many films ...

... but I'd like to mention Timothy Bottoms. He played the broken-down Sonny Crawford in "Texasville" amazingly well -- and what with him portraying George W. Bush so much recently, I'd say that would put him in contention for the "loser" roles.

[DS1]

6. William H. Macy

I mean, come on.

[no_arbusto]

21. Definitely

Boogie Nights and Magnolia particularly.

[mitchum]

23. I agree...and Harry Dean Stanton from the previous generation

[bobthedrummer]

8. Robin Williams, Nicholas Cage

William Dafoe all have done Academy Award nomination losers.

[ima_sinnic]

9. Mickey Rourke

I used to have a crush on him but then I heard he had liposuction on his thighs and I lost it.

[maggrwaggr]

20. he also had cheek implants and god-knows what else

used to be a great actor, now just a freak

[Cocoa]

12. Ben Stiller

very funny guy.

[Booberdawg]

14. George on Seinfeld n/y

[farmbo]

15. Struther Martin in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

Lee Marvin (Liberty Valance)throws Jimmy Stewart's steak on the floor... John Wayne calls him out on it...tells him to pick the steak up. Both reach for their guns.

Struther Martin, Lee Marvin's sidekick, tries to difuse the crisis by picking up the steak.

"I'll get it Liberty," he mutters, groveling for the steak.

John Wayne boot-kicks him across the room.

The epitome of a loser!

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Steve Martin. The ultimate self deprecating loser.

or is that looser??? ;-)

[Kat45]

17. Definitely William H. Macy

I don't think I've ever seen him play somebody who was not a loser. Even if things look ok for him at the beginning of a movie, I know that's they'll be going downhill.

The pedophile he played in "Happiness" is probably the 'best' character I've seen him play.

[BrotherBuzz]

18. Joe Pesci

[ZenLefty]

19. Harry Dean Stanton

Paris, Texas
Repo Man
The Green Mile
et cetera, ad infinitum

No contest.

[Lindsey]

22. Are you sure it was William Macy

who played in Happiness? I thought it was someone else.

[Twillig]

24. It was Dylan Baker in Happiness

And the Harry Dean Stanton call is spot on. His role in Alien comes to mind. :-)


Repo-Man's got all night, every night!

[newyawker99]

28. Congrats Twillig!! 300 posts

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