Old school BP thread. Greatest single film role.

[AKAK]

One per post.

Role should outkick the rest of the actors career. (Not "cuz it's tom Hanks")

You need not defend it, but the idea is a singular performance by that actor

 

[AKAK]

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas

 

[LordJeffBuck]

Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange ... a one-hit wonder that's still earning him "character actor" roles 50+ years later.

 

[charlohiottean]

Keith Gordon as Arnie in “Christine”

 

[charlohiottean]

Bud Cort as Harold in “Harold and Maude”

I can do this all day.

 

[AKAK]

Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange ... a one-hit wonder that's still earning him "character actor" roles 50+ years later.

Matthew Modine as Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket.

And yes I thought he was a tick better than D'Onofrio in the vein of the thread.

 

[LordJeffBuck]

Barry Foster as Robert Rusk in Hitchcock's Frenzy, a movie that I can recommend highly.

 

[AKAK]

Bud Cort as Harold in “Harold and Maude”

I can do this all day.

 

[Dryden]

Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange is the only correct answer.

 

[Dryden]

Tawney Kitaen’s shower scene in Witchboard in 1986 is a close second.

 

[shetuck]

Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange is the only correct answer.

No...

Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles.

 

[shetuck]

Peter Billingsley in A Christmas Story

 

[shetuck]

Ben Kingsley in Ghandi

 

[shetuck]

John Fiedler in 12 Angry Men

 

[BuckBackHome]

Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire.

You're welcome!