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Supporting roles, always

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Average listal rating (1422 ratings) 7.7  
1. Steve Buscemi
Gregory Stark in New York Stories (1989)


Test Tube in King Of New York (1990)


Mink in Miller's Crossing (1990)


Chet in Barton Fink (1991)


Irving in Billy Bathgate (1991)


Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs (1992)


Willy Wilhelm in Rising Sun (1993)


Buddy Holly in Pulp Fiction (1994)


Beatnik Barman in Hudsucker Proxy (1994)


Buscemi in Desperado (1995)


Star Map Eddie in Escape From L.A (1996)


Carl Sholwater in Fargo (1996)


Garland Greene in Con Air (1997)


Donald Kerabatsos in The Big Lebowski (1998)


Rockhound in Armageddon (1998)


David Veltri in The Wedding Singer (1998)


Homeless Guy in Big Daddy (1999)


Ray Coleman in Domestis Disturbance (2001)


Crazy Eyes in Mr. Deeds (2002)

Norther Winslow in Big Fish (2003)


James McCord in The Island (2005)


Dale Martin in The Messenger (2009)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (456 ratings) 7.4  
2. Joe Pesci
Joey in Raging Bull (1980)


Mayakofsky in Eureka (1983)


Frankie Manoldi in Once Upon a Time in America (1984)


Leo Getz in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)


Harry in Home Alone (1990)


Tommy De Vito in GoodFellas (1990)


David Ferrie in JFK (1991)


Leo Getz in Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)


Harry Lime in Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (1992)


Carmine in A Bronx Tale (1993)


Nicky Santoro in Casino (1995)


Leo Getz in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)


Joseph Palmi in The Good Shepherd (2006)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (641 ratings) 7.6  
3. Harvey Keitel
Ben in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)


Matthew in Taxi Driver (1976)


Benson in Saturn 3 (1980)


Cat in The Border (1982)


Judas in Last Temptation of Christ (1988)


Hal in Thelma and Louise (1991)


Mickey Cohen in Bugsy (1991)


Vince LaRocca in Sister Act (1992)


Tom Graham in Rising Sun (1993)


George Baines in The Piano (1993)


Winston Wolf in Pulp Fiction (1994)


Jacob Fuller in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)


Ray Donlan in Cop Land (1997)


Dad in Little Nicky (2000)


Jack Crawford in Red Dragon (2002)


Sadusky in National Treasure (2004)


Nick Carr in Be Cool (2005)


Randy Weir in Little Fockers (2010)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Elizabet in Frankenstein (1994)


Marla Singer in Fight Club (1999)


Ari in Planet of the Apes (2001)


Jenny in Big Fish (2003)


Mrs. Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)


Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)


Bellatrix LestRange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)


Serena Kogan in Terminator: Salvation (2009)


Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland (2010)


Queen Elisabeth in King's Speech (2010)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (432 ratings) 6.4  
5. Danny Trejo
Boxer in Runaway Train (1985)


Chink in Lock Up (1989)


Navajas in Desperado (1995)


Trejo in Heat (1995)


Razoz Charlie in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)


Johnny Baca in Con Air (1997)


Poacher in Anaconda (1997)


Collins in The Replacement Killers (1998)


Vito in Animal Factory (2000)


El Jefe in XXX (2002)


Machete in Spy Kids 2 (2002)


Cucuy in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)


Machete in Planet Terror (2007)


Ismael Cruz in Halloween (2007)


Cuchillo in Predators (2010)

Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (302 ratings) 7.1  
6. Pete Postlethwaite
David in Alien 3 (1992)


Beams in The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)


Giuseppe Conlon in In The Name Of The Father (1993)


Kobayashi in Usual Suspects (1995)


Gilbert in Dragonheart (1996)


Laurence in Romeo + Juliet (1996)


Roland Tembo in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)


Holabird in Amistad (1997)


Brennan in The Omen (2006)


Fergus Colm in The Town (2010)


Maurice Fisher in Inception (2010)


Spyros in Clash Of The Titans (2010)

Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (1415 ratings) 8.3  
7. Gary Oldman
Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991)


Drexl Spivey in True Romance (1993)


Stansfield in Leon (1994)


Albert Milo in Basquiat (1996)


Ivan Korshunov in Air Force One (1997)


Jean Baptiste Emanuele Zorg in The Fifth Element (1997)


Mason Verger in Hannibal (2001)


Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)


Jim Gordon in Batman Begins (2005)


Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order the Phoenix (2007)


Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight (2008)


Bob Cratchit in Christmas Carol (2009)


Carnegie in The Book of Eli (2010)
Aprakadabra's rating:

George Willis Jr. in Scent of a Women (1992)


Raymer in Nobody's Fool (1994)


Craps Player in Hard Eight (1996)


Scotty J. in Boogie Nights (1997)


Brandt in The Big Lebowski (1998)


Phil Parma in Magnolia (1999)


Lester Bangs in Almost Famous (2000)


Dean Trumbell in Punch-Drunk Love (2002)


Jacob Elinsky in 25th Hour (2002)


Freddy Lounds in Red Dragon (2002)


Owen Bawian in Mission: Impossible III (2006)


Brendan Flynn in Doubt (2008)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (350 ratings) 7.3  
9. Christopher Plummer
Colin Harvey in Battle of Britain (1969)


Charles Litton in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)


Rudyard Kibling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975)


Chang in Star Trek VI (1991)


Chaplain Gill in Malcolm X (1992)


Goines in 12 monkeys (1995)


Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999)


Rosen in The Beautiful Mind (2001)


Aristotle in Alexander (2004)


John Gates in National Treasure (2004)


Newport in The New World (2005)


Dean Whiting in Syriana (2005)


Arthur Case in Inside Man (2006)


Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009)


Parnassus in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (473 ratings) 7  
10. Peter Stormare
Gaerar Grimsrud in Fargo (1996)


Dieter Stark in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)


Karl Hungus in The Big Lebowski (1998)


Lev Andropov in Armageddon (1998)


Dino Velvet in 8MM (1999)


Serge Mustat in Chocolat (2000)


Hjelmstad in Windtalkers (2002)


Solomon Eddie in Minority Report (2002)


Alexei in Bad Boys II (2003)


Cavaldi in Brothers Grimm (2005)


Satan in Constantine (2005)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (340 ratings) 6  
11. Keith David
Childs in The Thing (1982)


King in Platoon (1986)


Frank Armitabe in They Live (1988)


Buster Franklin in Bird (1988)


Max in Marked for Death (1990)


Kimsey in Armageddon (1998)


Big Tim in Requiem for A Dream (2000)


Abu al Walid in Pitch Black (2000)


Dixon in Crash (2004)


Staplleton in Transporter 2 (2005)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (539 ratings) 6.7  
12. John C. Reilly
Herbert Hatcher in Casualties Of War (1989)


Pete Connely in Hoffa (1992)


Tucker Van Dyke in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)


Terry in River Wild (1994)


Reed Rotchild in Boogie Nights (1997)


Cop in Magnolia (1999)


Dale Murphy in Perfect Storm (2000)


Happy Jack Mulraney in Gangs Of New York (2002)


Amos Hart in Chicago (2002)


Dan Brown in The Hours (2002)


Noah Dietrich in The Aviator (2004)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (111 ratings) 7.5  
13. Eli Wallach
Silva Vacarro in Baby Doll (1956)


Calvera in The Magnificent Seven (1960)


Charlie Gant in How the West Was Won (1962)


Tuco in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)


Don Altobello in The Godfather part III (1990)


Ben Lewis in Keeping the Faith (2000)


Looney in Mystic River (2003)


Arthur in The Holiday (2006)


Noah Dietrich in The Hoax (2006)


Old man in The Ghost Writer (2010)


Jules Steinhardt in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (1283 ratings) 7.9  
14. Christopher Walken
The Kid in The Anderson Tapes (1971)


Duane Hall in Annie Hall (1977)


Nick in The Deer Hunter (1978)


Max Zorin in A View to a Kill (1985)


Max Shreck in Batman Returns (1992)


Bobby Chan in Wayne's World 2 (1993)


Vincenzo Coccotti in True Romance (1993)


Koons in Pulp Fiction (1994)


Hessian Horseman in Sleepy Hollow (1999)


Frank Agabnale in Catch Me If You Can (2002)


Hatcher in The Rundown (2003)


Rayburn in Man on Fire (2004)


Mark Heiss in Domino (2005)


Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (139 ratings) 7.5  
15. John Cazale
Fredo Corleone in The Godfather (1972)


Fredo Corleone in The Godfather part II (1974)


Stan in The Conversation (1974)


Sal in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)


Stan in The Deer Hunter (1978)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (1009 ratings) 6.9  
16. Danny DeVito
Martini in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)


Vernon Dahlart in Terms Of Endreament (1983)


Ralph in Romancing the Stone (1984)


Vincent Benedict in Twins (1988)


Gavin Damato in The War Of The Roses (1989)


Penguin in Batman Returns (1992)


Larry Arbogast in Junior (1994)


Martin Weir in Get Shorty (1995)


Rude Gampler in Mars Attacks (1996)


Sid Hudgens in L.A. Confidential (1997)


Deck Shifflet in The Rainmaker (1997)


Horniker in The Virgin Suicides (1999)


George Shapiro in Man on the Moon (1999)


Amos Calloway in Big Fish (2003)

Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (222 ratings) 7.8  
17. Richard Harris
Howard Barnsby in Guns of Navarone (1961)


Benjamin in Major Dundee (1965)


Paddy O'Neill in Patriot Games (1992)


English Bob in Unforgiven (1992)


Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000)


Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (250 ratings) 7.8  
18. Ken Watanabe
Katsumoto in The Last Samurai (2003)


Ra's Al Ghul in Batman Begins (2005)


Chairman in Memoir's Of a Geisha (2005)


Guribayashi in Letter's From Iwo Jima (2006)


Saito in Inception (2010)


Tanaka in Shanghai (2010)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (465 ratings) 6.8  
19. Alfred Molina
Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)


Angel in Maverick (1994)


Trading Post Missionary in Dead Man (1995)


Rahad Jackson in Boogie Nights (1997)


Solomon Solomon in Magnolia (1999)


Comte Reynand in Chocolat (2000)


Otta Octavius in Spider Man 2 (2004)


Manuel Aringarosa in The Da Vinci Kode (2006)

Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (223 ratings) 6.6  
20. David Carradine
Dave in The Long Goodbye (1973)


Drunk in Mean Streets (1973)
(no that picture)

Frankenstein in Death Race (1975)


Rawley Wilkes in Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)


Bill in Kill Bill Vol 1. (2003)


Bill in Kill Bill Vol 2. (2004)


Poon Dong in Crank: High Voltage (2009)
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (603 ratings) 7.6  
21. Benicio Del Toro
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (502 ratings) 6.8  
22. Ian Holm
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (426 ratings) 7.1  
23. Don Cheadle
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (418 ratings) 6.4  
24. Ving Rhames
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (337 ratings) 6.8  
25. Stellan Skarsgård
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (297 ratings) 6.5  
26. Jonah Hill
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (369 ratings) 7.6  
27. Dennis Hopper
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (251 ratings) 6.3  
28. Robert Patrick
Aprakadabra's rating:

Average listal rating (266 ratings) 6  
29. Luis Guzmán
Aprakadabra's rating:



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Comments

Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Sep 23 13:50
solid list..solid
Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Sep 23 14:37
Great list, although I would say Harvey Keitel is the lead in Mean Streets.
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Sep 27 12:54
Philip Hoffman has the performance of his life as the main lead of Capote! But great list dude, it's just almost always :P (well some of those at least)
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 5 14:43
I really like where this list is headed, but there are some pictures in there that are incorrect. The picture of Helena from Terminator is actually Summer Glau from the Sarah Conner Chronicles. I do believe Serena was blonde.

Also the picture of Peter Stormare from Lebowski is actually John Turturro and the one from Chocolate is Johnny Depp. And I think Danny Trejo just had a starring role this summer in the movie Machete, although I might be wrong about that. Not trying to pick at your list, just thought you'd want to know. I'll be excited to see the finished project.
Posted: 2 years, 4 months ago at Dec 30 9:54
That line between lead and supporting lead is often blurred. I always consider the dominant sex in any given movie as the lead actor/actress even if their part is relatively small.
Posted: 2 years, 4 months ago at Dec 30 12:24
hello there, very nice list but i really think than Danny Trejo has the leading role in Machete and Harvey Keitel has one of the leading roles in Reservoir Dogs!!!
great idea for a list!!^^
Posted: 2 years, 3 months ago at Feb 2 18:33
danny trejo!respect!!!now it's time to star at last!machete!hahahaha!
Posted: 2 years, 3 months ago at Feb 3 4:14
so true!! yet some of these actors are actually really good. interesting
Posted: 2 years, 3 months ago at Feb 3 9:52
great list..john cazale was one of the best actors ever. what a shame he died so young. he appeared in 5 films, and they were all nominated for a best movie academy award. coincidence? i don't think so...
Posted: 2 years, 3 months ago at Feb 21 11:26
Harvey Keitel and Steve Buscemi were kind of in the lead role in Reservoir Dogs
Posted: 2 years, 2 months ago at Feb 26 4:47
Greats actors! ;)
Posted: 2 years, 2 months ago at Mar 15 9:20
Greats actors , I cant imagen that they only have no lead role
Posted: 1 year, 11 months ago at Jun 1 12:44
Great list! If you want I could also suggest Alan Rickman and Paul Giamatti
Posted: 1 year, 9 months ago at Aug 8 20:59
God I'm so sick of Hollywood and their shallow standard. Those movie execs don't care about talents at all. They just want to see their movies making big bucks despite how awful the movie or the performance is. That's why they tend to choose the best looking lead actors with massive appeal and great selling ability, and not the ones of massive acting skill despite their average/mediocre looks. That being said, I'd rather see GREAT actors in supporting roles than CRAPPY leading actors who rely more on their looks than their acting.

Some of the actors you list there are quite good, such as Steve Buscemi, Joe Pesci, or Harvey Keitel. They should play more leading roles than some leading men we usually see these days. Oh btw as a suggestion, what about Harry Dean Stanton?
Posted: 1 year, 7 months ago at Oct 5 0:22
Amazing list just amazing thank you so much for your time and effort :)
Posted: 1 year, 7 months ago at Oct 8 20:59
Great list, great actors, those movies wouldn't be the same without them!
Posted: 1 year, 3 months ago at Feb 14 2:52
Komia lista!

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