Ooh...another one for me: David Strathairn. He was in "L.A. Confidential," played Meryl Streep's gutless husband in "The River Wild," and was absolutely robbed of an Oscar for his performance in "Good Night, and Good Luck." He was recently seen as the villain in "The Bourne Supremacy."

I'll add another if no one else does. I don't want to hog all the good ones!

I'll submit JK Simmons (Oz, J. Jonah in Spiderman), Max von Sydow (sure ... well known if you watch Bergman films, but most don't) and James Cromwell (also in LA Confidential, but probably better known as the farmer in Babe).

On a related note, my all-time favorite JT Walsh moment/quote:

JT Walsh (as Buster Keeton): "I just killed my wife ... is that wrong?"

Max von Sydow (as the devil/whatever): "These things happen ..."

From Needful Things (not good otherwise, but have always loved that moment).

Man, two more of my favorites. I loved JK Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson. If you balance out the miscasting of MJ with casting him as Jonah, he's so perfect he makes up for a Kirsten Dunst and a 1/2.

I LOVED him in "The Ladykillers." His girlfriend was Mountain Girl, which Tom Hanks later on called "Mountain Water." That movie gets far too little cred. It was outstanding (and my very first movie review).

Back on the subject of JT Walsh...if you watch Blue Chips, a good drinking game is drinking every time the words he says don't match up with his mouth moving. For some reason that happens several times during that movie. I remember at the end when Western beats IU he screams "YES!" and his mouth never moves. He's just sitting there smiling.

Ben Gazarra, that guy from Roadhouse. Was terrific in Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

Yes, David, you're correct, and Macy, Buscemi and Turturro are in fact those guys made good.

I'd also add Philip Seymour Hoffman to that list. P.T. Anderson also brings out the best in character actors. Think Boogie Nights-Alfred Molina, Thomas Jane, Hoffman, Don Cheadle (!), John C. O'Reilly (!), Philip Baker Hall.

With Hoffman, my favorite moment is an outtake from "Punch-Drunk Love." Hoffman's character owns a furniture store and does a commercial where he's playing a guitar on the roof of the store, and for some reason at the end of the commercial he jumps off of the roof onto a mattress on top of a van (while still holding the guitar). However, he bounces off the mattress and thuds to the ground. It's all done in one take (and one shot), so you know it's not faked. That one had to hurt. It's on the P-DL DVD.

Since we're talking favorite actor moments, my favorite Dan Hedaya moment is in Clueless when Cher (Alicia Silverstone) introduces her dad (Hedaya) to her new friend. He only says to her "Get out of my chair!"

Ooh...more good stuff about Hedaya. He also was in Alien Resurrection-he was the ship captain who pulled out the piece of his brain when the Alien got him.

And also, that friend in Clueless was played by Brittney Murphy.

I just interviewed David Benioff (screenwriter of "The Kite Runner," "Troy" and "The 25th Hour." He said Brittney Murphy was originally going to play the Anna Paquin role in "25th" but got fired for not showing up to rehearsal.

I just thought it was funny.

Al Leong -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Leong

You'll know him as soon as you see him.

James Hong is another good one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hong

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Both Asian. Weird.

Brian Cox is another great one. He was the original Hannibal Lecter (in Michael Mann's "Manhunter"), he the villain in X2:X-Men United, and has been in a host of films, including the first two "Bourne" films, "Troy" (he played Agammemnon), and he was fantastic in "Running With Scissors."

The guessing part of this game isn't nearly as much fun with imdb.com and the like out there :(

My sister and I go through this all the time...it usually starts out with the statement, "He was in something else." Now I just have to think of an actor.....

James Hong! Immediately I'm inundated with a million images from Big Trouble in Little China (and the Chinese Restaurant episode from Seinfeld) GREAT call

"I say 'Cartwright!' You not answer. I hang up."

Nicki, I think to account for the guessing part, we should try to think of/find a role we know the guy was in. Or you could do like I just did and just throw out a random line from one of his roles.

Ooh! Brion James! Tango & Cash. He was the aussie dude who pulled a knife on Kurt Russell during the pre-escape ambush in prison. Russell said "If you wanna cut my head off, go ahead. But don't let this guy do it. I wanna be killed by an American!" To which the guy pulls out his switchblade and says "You f----ing wanker!"

In the basic cable/regular TV version it's "you foolish wanker," adding another wrinkle to one of my favorite bad lines from a way bad movie.