Barnaby Jones (played by Buddy Ebsen), one of the great geriatric detectives, right up there with Matlock and Jessica Fletcher. Barnaby Jones.
Estelle Costanza - Estelle Harris captures madness and plays perfectly off Jerry Stiller in her portrayal of George's mother on Seinfeld
Francis Gremp (a.k.a. Chainsaw) played by Dean Cameron (below, right) in Summer School. Francis is one half of the underachieving but wickedly clever duo of Chainsaw and Dave, who excel at horror FX makeup, and getting free sunglasses. "You passed and I failed! You asshole! How could you do that to me" ~ Chainsaw "It was an accident. I'll take it again. I can fail, I know I can." ~ Dave
Imhotep, played by Arnold Vosloo (below, left), an unfaithful priest who is cursed in a way that kind of seems like a blessing in that he becomes immortal and has magical powers in The Mummy. "Death is only the beginning." ~ Imhotep
Marko Ramius (played by Sean Connery), a brilliant tactician, submarine commander, and defector in The Hunt for Red October. "Well... Ramius trained most of their Officer Corps, which would put him in a position to select men willing to help him. And he's not Russian. He's Lithuanian by birth, raised by his paternal grandfather, a fisherman. He has no children, no ties to leave behind. And today is the first anniversary of his wife's death." ~ Jack Ryan
Paulie Walnuts - Tony Sirico stars as Peter Paul Gualtieri, the eventual underboss of the DiMeo crime family on The Sopranos
Rick Sanchez. A brilliant scientist, engineer, nihilist, and misanthrope who lives in his daughter's house, and has a sometimes strained relationship with his grandson on Rick and Morty. "Because I don’t respect therapy; because I’m a scientist; because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living, and when I don’t like something about the world, I change it. And I don’t think going to a rented office in a strip mall to listen to some agent of averageness explain which words mean which feelings has ever helped anyone do anything. I think it’s helped a lot of people get comfortable and stop panicking, which is a state of mind [belch] we value in the animals we eat, but not something I want for myself. I’m not a cow. I’m a pickle — when I feel like it. So … you asked.” ~ Rick Sanchez
Ultra Magnus (below, left), voiced by Robert Stack, the interim leader of the Autobots after the death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: the Movie. As a brief aside, I find it odd that Ultra Magnus survived being blown apart, while Optimus Prime couldn't be repaired after taking a few laser pistol shots, and they're basically the same design, but whatever. "Ultra Magnus, it is to you, old friend, I shall pass the Matrix of Leadership as it was passed to me." ~ Optimus Prime "But Prime, I'm... I'm just a soldier. I... I'm not worthy." ~ Ultra Magnus
Wang Chi (played by Dennis Dun) is the owner of The Black Dragon Pool restaurant, a bad fan tan player, a bad bottle splitter, but a true friend to Jack Burton. Together, they were able to see things no-one could see, and do things no-one one else could do. In short, they shook the pillars of Heaven in one of my all-time favorite movies, Big Trouble in Little China. "Here's to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here's to America's colors, the colors that never run." ~ Wang Chi "May the wings of liberty never lose a feather." ~ Jack Burton
Zathras (played by Tim Choate) was the caretaker of The Great Machine along with his brothers, and a time traveler on Babylon 5. "Yes. Yes. Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have... very sad death. But... at least there is symmetry." ~ Zathras
Dimitri Kadman a.k.a. "Dimi the Twin" played by Matt Biedel (among others). Dimi was a not-too-wise hitman who cloned his consciousness out of paranoia, and called it his brother, in the Netflix adaptation of Altered Carbon. "Where is the voice that said, 'Altered carbon will free us from the cells of our flesh'? The visions that said we would be angels? Instead, we became hungry for things that reality could no longer offer. The lines blurred. You want to know who I work for? The people who understood that; who used it to become wealthy beyond words in the only currency that truly matters: the appetites of the immortal." ~ Dimi the Twin
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