List of character actors

This is a list of character actors, those who typically play supporting roles in film, television and theatre. See also List of fat actors.

A
*F. Murray Abraham
*Joss Ackland
*Don Adams
*Charlie Adler
*Danny Aiello: Italian-American tough guy
*Eddie Albert
*Jack Albertson (Grandpa Bucket in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Ed Brown in Chico and the Man) grumpy old man with a soft heart
*Judith Anderson female villain
*Kevin Anderson
*Curtis Armstrong (Booger in Revenge of the Nerds) slob
*William Atherton (EPA man in Ghostbusters) snooty authority figure
*Tom Atkins (The Rockford Files; hardened police detective)
*René Auberjonois (Benson, Deep Space 9 and Boston Legal)
*William Austin

B
*Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo and Thurston Howell III) "Old money" millionaire
*Angela Baddeley
*Hermione Baddeley (Mrs. Naugatuck on Maude) British busybody
*G. W. Bailey (Capt. Harris in Police Academy) Crusty
*Dylan Baker
*Joe Don Baker
*Tom Baker
*Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
*Martin Balsam
*Roger Bart
*Hetty Baynes
*Ned Beatty
*William Bendix
*Jeff Bennett
*Abraham Benrubi ("Men In Trees")
*Bill Bixby
*
*Betsy Blair
*Selma Blair
*Madge Blake
*Mel Blanc
*Clara Blandick
*Ward Bond
*Beulah Bondi
*Hugh Bonneville
*Shirley Booth
*Powers Boothe
*Ernest Borgnine
*Peter Boyle
*Walter Brennan("The Real McCoys")
*Clancy Brown
*W. Earl Brown
*Roscoe Lee Browne
*Victor Buono
*
*Steve Buscemi
*Jake Busey
*Grand L. Bush

C
*Sid Caesar
*Louis Calhern
*Cantinflas
*Harry Carey
*Harry Carey, Jr.
*John Carradine
*Leo G. Carroll
*Ted Cassidy
*John Cazale
*Juliet Cesario
*Thomas Haden Church
*E. E. Clive
*Kim Coates
*Gary Cole
*Dabney Coleman
*Jeffrey Combs
*Hans Conreid
*Elisha Cook, Jr.
*Chris Cooper
*Gladys Cooper
*Barry Corbin
*Laird Cregar
*Bernard Cribbins
*Donald Crisp
*James Cromwell
*Scatman Crothers
*Jim Cummings
*Finlay Currie
*Henry Czerny

D
*Marcel Dalio
*Jane Darwell
*Keith David
*John Rhys Davies
*Richard Dawson
*Pedro de Cordoba
*John Dehner
*William Demarest
*Edward de Souza
*William Devane
*Andy Devine
*Selma Diamond
*Anton Diffring
*Dudley Digges
*Basil Dignam
*Colleen Dion
*David Dukes
*Jane Dulo
*Carmen Duncan
*Charles Durning

E
*Buddy Ebsen
*Maude Eburne
*Snitz Edwards
*Bob Elkins
*Sam Elliott
*Noah Emmerich
*R. Lee Ermey
*Ron Eldard

F
*Dennis Farina
*Anna Faris
*Richard Farnsworth
*William Fawcett
*Jesslyn Fax
*Frank Faylen
*Wayne Federman
*Marty Feldman
*Norman Fell
*Frank Ferguson
*Conchata Ferrell
*William Fichtner
*John Fiedler
*Jimmy Finlayson
*Barry Fitzgerald
*William Forsythe
*Byron Foulger
*Douglas Fowley
*Ronald Fraser
*William Frawley
*Kathleen Freeman
*Morgan Freeman
*Kurt Fuller

G
*James Gammon
*James Gandolfini
*Paul Giamatti
*Hermione Gingold
*Ned Glass
*Crispin Glover
*Adam Goldberg
*Jeff Goldblum
*John Goodman
*Gale Gordon
*Frank Gorshin
*Harold Gould
*Gloria Grahame
*Richard E. Grant
*Charles Gray
*Sydney Greenstreet
*Judy Greer
*James Gregory
*Richard Griffiths
*Harold Gould
*Luis Guzmán

H
*David Haig
*Philip Baker Hall
*Jonathan Harris
*Kathleen Harrison
*Linda Hart
*Rutger Hauer
*Sterling Hayden
*George 'Gabby' Hayes
*John Heard
*Dan Hedaya
*Barry Shabaka Henley
*Paul Henreid
*Lance Henriksen
*Bernard Hepton
*Judd Hirsch
*Philip Seymour Hoffman
*Kene Holliday
*Sterling Holloway
*Celeste Holm
*Ian Holm
*Mark Holton
*James Hong
*Edward Everett Horton
*Bob Hoskins
*Arliss Howard
*Clint Howard
*Trevor Howard
*Harold Huber
*Peter Hughes
*Wilfrid Hyde-White

I
*Michael Ironside

J
*Lou Jacobi
*Dean Jagger
*Brion James
*Richard Jenkins
*Michael Jeter
*Ben Johnson
*Jeffrey Jones
*Mickey Jones
*L. Q. Jones

K
*Madeline Kahn
*Carol Kane
*Julie Kavner
*Cecil Kellaway
*Bruno Kirby
*Jeroen Krabbé
*Zachary Kiefer

L
*Michael Landon
*Charles Lane
*Harry Lauter
*Cloris Leachman
*Phil Leeds
*Fredric Lehne
*
*Ted Levine
*Eugene Levy
*Desmond Llewelyn
*Christopher Lloyd
*Robert Loggia
*Donal Logue
*Marion Lorne
*Peter Lorre

M
*Harriet MacGibbon
*William H. Macy
*Michael Madsen
*Mako
*Miriam Margolyes
*Kenneth Mars
*Mae Marsh
*Strother Martin
*Richard Masur
*Robin Mattson
*Hattie McDaniel
*Mary McDonnell
*Roddy McDowall
*Malcolm McDowell
*John C. McGinley
*Bernie McInerney
*Victor McLaglen
*Butterfly McQueen
*Donald Meek
*Cheerio Meredith
*Gary Merrill
*Mark Metcalf
*Torben Meyer
*Dick Miller
*Jason Miller
*Thomas Mitchell
*Donald Moffat
*Alfred Molina
*Agnes Moorehead
*Mantan Moreland
*Frank Morgan
*Ralph Morgan
*Barry Morse
*David Morse
*Joe Morton
*Josh Mostel
*Zero Mostel
*Brian Doyle-Murray
*Lorenzo Music
*Burt Mustin

N
*Ajay Naidu
*Kathy Najimy
*Alan Napier
*Christos Natsios
*Tim Blake Nelson
*Leonard Nimoy
*

O
*Philip Ober
*Raymond O'Connor
*Una O'Connor
*J. Pat O'Malley
*Warren Oates
*Gary Oldman
*Lupe Ontiveros
*Leland Orser

P
*Kumar Pallana
*Joe Pantoliano
*Will Patton
*Rob Paulsen
*David Paymer
*Jeff Perry
*Joe Pesci
*Slim Pickens
*Christopher Plummer
*Jon Polito
*Sydney Pollack
*Kevin Pollak
*Michael J. Pollard
*Richard Portnow
*Parker Posey
*Pete Postlethwaite
*Robert Prosky
*David Proval
*Cameron Prud'Homme
*Jonathan Pryce

R
*Gilda Radner
*Claude Rains
*Michael Rapaport
*James Rebhorn
*John C. Reilly
*Bert Remsen
*Alan Rickman
*Ron Rifkin
*Thelma Ritter
*James Robertson-Justice
*Daniel Roebuck
*Roxie Roker
*Cesar Romero
*Michael Rooker
*Stephen Root

S
*William Sadler
*S.Z. Sakall
*Skyler Samuels
*Jay O. Sanders
*Paul Sanderson
*William Sanderson
*Isabel Sanford
*Reni Santoni
*Dick Sargent
*Telly Savalas
*Sid Saylor
*Stellan Skarsgard
*Richard Schaal
*Natalie Schafer
*Vincent Schiavelli
*Vito Scotti
*Gregory Sierra
*Wallace Shawn
*J.K. Simmons
*Tom Sizemore
*C. Aubrey Smith
*Paul Sorvino
*Olan Soule
*Kevin Spacey
*Timothy Spall
*Brent Spiner
*John Spencer
*Harry Dean Stanton
*Ben Stein
*Henry Stephenson
*Daniel Stern
*Tara Strong
*Magda Szubanski
*Will Smith

T
*Russ Tamblyn
*Jeffrey Tambor
*Ta-Tanisha
*Irene Tedrow
*Mimis Theiopoulos
*Lynne Thigpen
*Brian Thompson
*Fred Thompson
*Steven Tobolowsky
*Rip Torn
*Henry Travers
*Danny Trejo
*Patrick Troughton

V
*Vivian Vance
*Robert Vaughn
*Conrad Veidt
*John Vernon
*Pruitt Taylor Vince
*Max von Sydow
*Dimitris Voyatzis

W
*Christopher Walken
*Nancy Walker
*Marcia Wallace
*Eli Wallach
*J.T. Walsh
*M. Emmet Walsh
*Ray Walston
*Burt Ward
*Willard Waterman
*Douglass Watson
*Dick Wesson
*Mary Wickes
*Treat Williams
*Dave Willock
*Michael Willis
*Michael Wincott
*Ray Winstone
*Victor Wong
*Jane Wyman
*Ed Wynn
*Keenan Wynn

X-Z
*Carleton Young
*Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

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