I Don't Know Your Name Stranger, But Your Face Is Familiar 

I'll give the internet credit for finally giving access to determine these people I'd seen over the years but were nameless. Dabs Greer was in a ton of movies/tv. Whit Bissell always gave a great performance, never overacting but perfectly measured. He was a psychiatrist in the Caine Mutiny and a senator in Seven Days in May. These guys have this serious genuine look like teachers you had or adults that intimidated you as a kid, just by their demeanor. Another stone face in their category that wasn't mentioned was Frank Overton. He was on the Twelve O'Clock TV show as Harvey. He also did a fantastic job in Fail Safe as the Norad General. These guys were so at ease with their acting that it always came across realistic.

I remember all of them at 62 I should. I grew up with them on TV and movies. Old Kenny.

They were all such versatile actors. Changing characters from one series to the next.

Even if you didn't recognize Roscoe Lee Browwne by face, he had a voice that you'd know ANYWHERE!!!

Thank you for paying tribute to these actors who have passed.!! Everyone one of them a great actor. 🌷

Dabbs Greer would visit his mother, who lived in Anderson, Missouri. In the summer time when the only thing higher than the humidity was the temperature. He always came in the store where I used to work. To us, he was just another customer and that was how he liked it. He was a modest man and appreciated being treated like an everyday customer. A very fond memory for me.

Anthony Zerbe had a major role in the miniseries "Centennial " and had a lead role in the early 1990s TV series "The Young Riders". I enjoyed both shows and his performances in each immensely.

Quite a few of these guys were in Little House on the Praire. Landon loved recycling actors in different roles throughout the 9 seasons.

I was expecting to see Vito Scotti make the list. But a solid video nonetheless.

Personally I always found "Character Actors" far more entertaining than the so called Hollywood Elite in many instances! In many cases it seems they literally stole the spotlight from the "Leading Star" too ....Great Video and will be back for more!! Cheers From Beverly Hills, Ohio

I remember all of them.

I recognize them all, .... a testament to my misspent life watching television.

Many of them were exceptionally good actors. Thanks.

Bladerunner......"I need you to interview Leon at the Tyrell Corporation"

Great voice Mr. Narrator!

You're so right, this Baby Boomer remembers all their faces, but not their names! lol.....thanks for sharing and jogging my senior moment mind! Much appreciated~

Always loved Daabs Greer. He played a wide variety of characters from ministers to bad guys. Also liked Dick Miller who was in a lot of Roger Corman movies. Probably best remembered for the movie "Gremlins." These guys improved every movie they were in.

I just watched Anthony Zerbe on Gunsmoke where he played an outlaw and a priest. He was also great as Mathias in the Omega Man with Charleston Heston. He will live forever in motion picture history.

Nice bit of trivia those familiar faces. M. Emmet Walsh best role ever IMHO was a Cohen brothers film called 'Blood Simple'. He is superb in that role.

John Anderson was a talent that, in his early 40s in age, could play an elderly invalid or a vibrant middle-aged character in the same TV season.

Roscoe Lee Browne - Jebediah Nightlinger in The Cowboys '72 , along side John Wayne and Bruce Durn .

I always loved supporting character actors. It was Warner Brothers who in a way became the pioneer realizing in movies - like real life - not everyone is the gorgeous handsome alpha leading personality and by having strong supporting casts it gave their films just a bit more realism over the 7 other big studios in the late thirties and early forties - a short lived edge of course as the others soon followed suite with that practice. Of course Peter Lorre who was actually one of the worlds leading actors became the epitome of supporting acts - once he started working in the U.S.A. - Eve Arden, Barton Maclaine, even Shemp Howard all made careers out of it. There are WAY too many to list and remember over the decades but I really enjoyed your video as I did some fairly intensive research a couple years back on this very subject and came up with several pages of names.. "Ya' know the guy in the black and whites that always played the flustered hotel concierge who closed one eye...the guy who was always the drunk who had maybe two scenes that looked at his drink when something odd happened...the guy who always played a flustered beat cop..."(Edgar Kennedy??) etc. The FACES are all there and it's great when folks like you bring them back to our attention for the well deserved credit that's due - or often OVERdue so....thanks again!

Oh thank you for remembering The Supporting Cast, without which life stages would be empty indeed so here's to the Everyman , Bravo 👏👏👏

I really love the character actors from this general time period. I watched almost every season of "Perry Mason," and Dabbs was in a bunch of them. The show was a cornucopia for the character actor. I've got to mention Cecil Kellaway!

Also, I loved Pat Hingle as Colonel Daniel Webster Tucker in an episode of MASH where he and Potter played a prank on the rest of the crew.

Thank you so much ! I remember all of these great character actors as I'm 75 and grew up with all of them I watch reruns of the Perry Mason show every night and that is a great source for these fantastic actors of the past. Again thank you.

Roscoe Lee Brown also turned in a stellar performance in John Wayne's last movie The Cowboys.

you should do another one with female character actors.... there were quite a few of them also.

Roscoe Lee Browne narrated a Star Wars album back in the late '70's. Very nicely done, it was. Pat Hingle was Commissioner Gordon in Batman Forever, and the bartender in The Quick and the Dead. John Anderson played Macguyver's grandfather Harry in a number of episodes. I've always wondered if he and Richard Dean Anderson were related.

Pat Hingle is well known for playing commissioner Gordon in the Burton and Schumacher Batman films. Hingle and Michael Gough (as Alfred the butler) were the only recurring actors in that series.

This is like a mini version of the documentary, "That Guy Who Was in That Thing". Everybody does Star Trek. LOL Great video, TLaSE.

I had seen all these people.. although I never knew their names.. A nice collection down memory lane.

This was an excellent video. I like old films and shows. I also love to take notice of secondary and character actor's real identities. Please do another. Dabs had a reoccurring role as a shopkeeper on Gunsmoke. My favorite Zerbe role was as a police officer on Harry O.

Great video. Some of the best actors ever.

I really like his voice 🥰

I have never seen Sterling Hayden in any other role outside of *The Godfather* before....’The Last Command’ from 1955 came on a retro channel a few days ago, jt was great and really cool to see him Capt McCluskey

Roscoe Lee Brown was also in the Cowboys with John Wayne.

Thanks for the memory lane walk.👍 Even though I'm only 40, I remember they were in: Hingle- "Maximum Overdrive" "Batman (1989)" Bissell- "The Time Machine (1960)" Zerbe- "The Dead Zone (1983)" Melton- 1992 'Spy Tech' toy commercial as the street vendor Anderson- "Trek The Next Generation" alien named Kevin Uxbridge Walsh- "Harry and the Hendersons" "Big Stan"

Wonderfully done, informative & entertaining video! Thank you Sir.

What a great video,brings back a lot of memories. Great job, please do more!!!😊

Yes! I remember Kurt Kasznar!! Most folks don't remember but he was once in Sound of Music. Certainly not for his singing skills thou he could sing. He was picked because of his acting ability more than anything!

that was certainly a refresher thank you.

Whit Bissell delivered my favourite film line in "The Magnificent Seven". "When it comes to a chance of having his head blown off, he's downright bigoted."

Most of these actors lived well into their 70s and 80s - nice long lives.

The title for this is really good cuz I did know their faces but never knew their names.

Thank you, some of these actors I didn't know they went to heaven to become angels.

I love this stuff! Thank you!

I about all of them have been to the Ponderosa, had a drink in the bar on Gunsmoke and met Lucas McCain.

I couldn't name many of them, but recognized all of them, and pretty well knew the names once heard. Thanks and remembrance to them all!

Dabbs Greer was a most phenomenal actor on TV, as he never seemed to age; as in his decades long career, he always played the part of a late-40s ~ early 50s guy in age. It wasn't until "Little House on the Prairie" did he appear to have aged in life. Greer also nearly outlived everyone that he starred with in Hollywood from the 1950s through the '80s.

Great title made me check this out. Coulda been longer! Very fun. Left out 2 of my faves, Joe Dorsey, and the amazing J.T. Walsh.

You forgot Anthony Zerbe was also a regular in Harry O, David Jansen's TV Detective show.

Thank you for making that interesting video. As a child of the late 50's, I know each of the men you featured well. I look forward to seeing your future work.

Roscoe Lee Browne was in a lot of movies and TV shows in the 70s the liberation of lb Jones up town Saturday night sandford and son a great actor

I love vids like this... brought back so many memories.

Nice video. Nostalgia!

Great tributes, brother!!!

M. Emmett Walsh costars with Dustin Hoffman in "Straight Time". He plays the part of Hoffman's character's parole officer and does a superb job as a nasty rotten guy. Paul Fix plays the sheriff, Micah Torrence, in "The Rifleman". By then he'd been in the movies for about 30 years. He appears to be a full foot shorter than Chuck Connors. And speaking of TV sheriffs, let's not forget Ray Teal, sheriff and friend to Ben Cartwright in Bonanza. He was born in 1900 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was an elementary school classmate of my grandmother. His mother moved him to California when he was about 10. Like John Anderson, Ray was all over the television in many 1/2 hour dramas; Twilight Zone et. al..

Cant believe I only got John Anderson. I always remember him from the very first episode of The Virginian. Some things just stay with you.

REALLY enjoyed this, an obvious labor of love honoring character actors whose presence added to whatever film or TV program they were in. Thanks. Subscribing.

All quality actors who could do a scene in 1 take. Not many of them around anymore.

Pat Hingle, my Commissioner Gordon and he was in a lot of Clint Eastwood movies. Dabbs Greer, Joe Winters/Mr. Pebbles.

Good compilation! Some names I remembered, some I never knew.

John Anderson was my favorite here. The old man in the cave. Twilight Zone. Best....

It is so important that you give us these wonderful stars names ,they are part of our history

Character actors deserve credit, too.

Blood Simple was written for MEW. I saw him at the Jack in the Box across from Acrclight Hollywood a few years back. He looked just fine.

Dabbs Greer appeared in every TV show made during the 1960s. I recognized all of those character actors. They may never have been leads in TV shows or films, but they were reliably competent actors.

You are so right. We know the faces but not the name. Thank you so much.

Great vlog my friend

Well done keep up the good work.

Sid Melton was famous in the 1950’s for playing Captain Midnight ‘s sidekick and co pilot, Ichabod Mudd (Icky), my favorite TV Series when I was a kid. SQ 2 in the Secret Squadron.🚀

Your channel rocks man!!

That's a familiar story for me! Watch a lot of things and say to my partner I know him or her but can't think where from! Thanks for filling in a few gaps! Love your channel!👍❤

Paul Fix (Sheriff Micah on "The Rifleman" starring Chuck Connors) was also in a Little Rascals short where he played the "wife" part of a husband and wife team of thieves. The couple played "mom and dad" to a couple of midgets dressed as their children. Stymie of the Rascals referred to these kids as "fidgets".

Thank you!

they come and they go we hope to a better place. many carectors many faces many people in one person

Oh please do more of these on character actors. Don't forget the ladies of course.

Great video - thank you! I knew all the faces but not the names.

Hingle, Brown, Zerbe and Walsh are heads-and-tails above the others in terms of recognition and talent. Were in big movies and tv alike.

great character actors thanks

Pat Hingle, a favorite of mine, was good buddies with Clint Eastwood and was in several of his pictures, Sudden Impact, The Gauntlet, Hang "em High.

Sir I can't thank you enough for this video I wondered all them years seeing all those great great actors, wondering their names and something about them, could you please make more of these. New subscriber. I use too wish in the 80's there would of had been a one hour afternoon talk show with nothing but these great actors on telling about their lives and their movie careers, but it never happened.I Thank you so much again.

I also remember Bissell only because I'm a diehard fan of Lee Meriwether! 💘

CLASSIC, GREAT MEMORIES!

George was wacked!

Wow!! I loved this. Well done. This is officially my favorite RU-vid channel ❤️❤️❤️

Kurt playing Fitzhugh in Land of the Giants, brilliant actor. Another one you loved to hate along the likes of Dr Smith in Lost in Space etc.

"The Omega Man" was 1971, not the '60s. Close enough I suppose, but I just wanted to clarify.

Great video ! The one name I thought you were sure to have ... But missed .... Was Olan Soule, the epitome of " Oh yeah, that guy ... He looked familiar ".

These are just some of the actors that made movies great! There are so many background actors that never got the awards they should have. ..in the movies today, there are none of these class and skilled that are really worth remembering. ..which is very sad indeed.....

You just answer'd a lot of questions for me . New sub.

Anthony Zerbe was also in The Matrix, M. Emmet Walsh was the police captain in Blade Runner and Pat Hingle was commisioner Gordon in Batman

I remember all these guys growing up! I loved Pat Hingle in Hang 'Em High, Lightning Jack (A very funny movie), and every movie I saw him in. Whit Bissell, I remember him a bunch of different shows growing up, Hogan’s Heroes too! I remember John Anderson, He was on TV almost daily! He was in so many shows I watched including The Rat Patrol… That last shot with John Anderson had Sandy Kenyon in the background, he’s another one to add to your list, as I recall he was on Hogan’s Heroes a few times too.

Rosco Lee Brown was also Box in the movie Logan's Run. (In the ice cave)

Great Information. Thanks

Well done!

Thanks for Memories

many of these actors were Twilight Zone and Star Trek alumni. At 0:41 they are all lined up ---> all four were on the TZ at some point. I almost completely missed Sally Kellerman (she was on an episode called Miniature).

All the faces are familar but embarrassed I admit none of the names . Good video .