Obscure Actors that we rememeber from our childhood

I saw an interesting documentary about actors you see all the time in secondary roles but don’t know their names. I think it was called That Other Guy or something like that.

I think one of my factor childhood actors was Don Knotts but he wasn’t obscure. His movies were kind of lame but I enjoyed them.
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
The only one I know in the OP is Arnold Stang.
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Marcy, I'm surprised you aren't familiar with Elisha Cook, Jr. He was in a ton of noir films, starting with The Maltese Falcon, then The Big Sleep. He continued in bunches of pictures up through the 1980s.

I think Arnold Stang got big when he was a regular on Milton Berles TV show, "The Texas Star Theater". I remember him on that show.
 
Yoo hoo, it's me,
My name is Pinky Lee.
I skip and run bring lots of fun
To every he and she.
It's plain to see
That you can tell it's me
With my checkered hat
And my checkered coat,
The funny giggle in my throat
And my silly dance
Like a billy goat.
Put 'em all together,
Put 'em all together,
And it's whooooo?
 
ChiroDoc said:
Marcy, I'm surprised you aren't familiar with Elisha Cook, Jr. He was in a ton of noir films, starting with The Maltese Falcon, then The Big Sleep. He continued in bunches of pictures up through the 1980s.

I think Arnold Stang got big when he was a regular on Milton Berles TV show, "The Texas Star Theater". I remember him on that show.
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Actually I only got into film noir recently. And thanks, you reminded me of how I know Arnold Stang.
 
JBR said:
Two American "character actors" who appeared in a lot of movies. On the left, Westerns villain supreme, Lee Van Cleef. On the right, Elli Wallach, who was sometimes a villain and sometimes cleaned up well as an everyman.
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I just saw Eli Wallach, older, on an episode of Law & Order. And remembered him in The Misfits, a favorite of mine.
 
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