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July 17, 2013 9:14 AM Subscribe
There's a particular comedy actor I've seen in a few movies (which I can't remember) and I'm trying to identify him. I don't have much to go on here but maybe you guys can help.
I seem to remember him playing some kind of university dean or professor fairly often. He's a white guy, full head of hair (never seen him with gray hair, I think he has dark hair) tanned, large head, full cheeks, kind of squinty. He's the kind of guy who you can really picture presiding over some kind of gathering of high society gentlemen in a stuffy smoking room in a silk robe with a cigar. Gregarious, authoritative. He's not Eugene Levy or Chevy Chase. I'm sorry I can't provide any more clues but I really just have this vague impression of this guy. Any wild guesses at who it might be would be appreciated. I think he's probably in his late sixties by now.
I seem to remember him playing some kind of university dean or professor fairly often. He's a white guy, full head of hair (never seen him with gray hair, I think he has dark hair) tanned, large head, full cheeks, kind of squinty. He's the kind of guy who you can really picture presiding over some kind of gathering of high society gentlemen in a stuffy smoking room in a silk robe with a cigar. Gregarious, authoritative. He's not Eugene Levy or Chevy Chase. I'm sorry I can't provide any more clues but I really just have this vague impression of this guy. Any wild guesses at who it might be would be appreciated. I think he's probably in his late sixties by now.
James Rebhorn played a dean in Scent of a Woman.
posted by seemoreglass at 9:22 AM on July 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by seemoreglass at 9:22 AM on July 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Not John Vernon, not James Rebhorn, not Paxton Whitehead. Thanks for the guesses, though.
posted by tehloki at 9:29 AM on July 17, 2013
posted by tehloki at 9:29 AM on July 17, 2013
I don't think he's ever played a Dean or Professor, but the rest of the description reminds me of Ray Wise
posted by jozxyqk at 9:30 AM on July 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by jozxyqk at 9:30 AM on July 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: You may want to throw out the professor/dean thing if it opens up the field to more guesses, it could just be an errant hunch. It's not Ray Wise. Similar kind of "air of high class" from him, though.
posted by tehloki at 9:33 AM on July 17, 2013
posted by tehloki at 9:33 AM on July 17, 2013
Jeffrey Jones from Amadeus, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Beetlejuice, etc?
posted by nightwood at 9:36 AM on July 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by nightwood at 9:36 AM on July 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Ah! Somebody on IRC finally figured it out. I was thinking of Fred Willard.
Sorry for bothering ask metafilter with this very terrible question. Thanks for guessing everyone.
posted by tehloki at 9:42 AM on July 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Sorry for bothering ask metafilter with this very terrible question. Thanks for guessing everyone.
posted by tehloki at 9:42 AM on July 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Fred Willard was just on the new Comedy Central show "Drunk History" 1st episode!
posted by maxg94 at 10:26 AM on July 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by maxg94 at 10:26 AM on July 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
Answered. I r dum
posted by stenseng at 2:56 PM on July 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by stenseng at 2:56 PM on July 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
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