What actor/actress comes to mind?

[Swithin]

Wallace Beery

Next: Radiant

[Intrepid37]

Next: Radiant

Shirley Kilpatrick

next: muddy

[KayFrancis]

Next: Radiant

Shirley Kilpatrick

next: muddy

Tim Robbins itaking a mud bath n The Player

Next : played a theater critic

[EP Millstone]

Next: played a theater critic

Ian Hendry in Theatre of Blood

Next: Guy or gal whose looks are "strictly from hunger."

[KayFrancis]

Next: played a theater critic

Ian Hendry in Theatre of Blood

Next: Guy or gal whose looks are "strictly from hunger."

Eugene Palette

Next: golden age film actor also voiced 1960's cartoon characters

[Dargo]

Next: golden age film actor also voiced 1960's cartoon characters

Allen Jenkins (as Officer Dibble in 'Top Cat')

Next: another to the same question here

[KayFrancis]

Hans Conried - Snidley Whiplash on Bullwinkle

Next : another golden age film actor who voiced a cartoon character

[j.lunatic]

Edward Everett Horton (Fractured Fairytales)

Next: A silent film star who successfully transitioned to sound

[Dargo]

Next: A silent film star who successfully transitioned to sound

William Powell

Next: changed their given name so as to sound less "ethnic"

[Sepiatone]

Next: changed their given name so as to sound less "ethnic"

Paul Muni

Next: Kept acting despite disability


Sepiatone

[Intrepid37]

Next: Kept acting despite disability

Patricia Neal

next: southern drawl

[laffite]

Andy Griffith

next : aloof

[Intrepid37]

Marlon Brando (in The Fugitive Kind)

next: sweet natured

[Dargo]

next: sweet natured

Jimmy Stewart (...particularly so as Elwood P. Dowd in that movie about an invisible six foot tall rabbit)

Next: she of raven-haired

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Barbara Steele

Next- a sneer