What actor/actress comes to mind?

[Feinberg]

Next: Battle-axe

Hattie Jacques

Next: gormandizing

[LawrenceA]

Robert Morley


next: played a lot of "immigrant" roles

[Sepiatone]

next: played a lot of "immigrant" roles

Anthony Quinn

Next:
Usually a floozie


Sepiatone

[Dargo]

Next:
Usually a floozie

Joyce Jameson (...and who I just recently discovered was a longtime girlfriend of Robert Vaughn's)


Next: often catering to other characters in a film

[KayFrancis]

Next:
Usually a floozie

Joyce Jameson (...and who I just recently discovered was a longtime girlfriend of Robert Vaughn's)


Next: often catering to other characters in a film

Eric Blore

Next: actor in films and tv also voiced cartoon characters

[EP Millstone]

Next: actor in films and tv also voiced cartoon characters

Howard Morris

Next: Plain-looking but strangely desirable.

[Dargo]

Next: Plain-looking but strangely desirable.

Wendy Hiller

Next: played Death

[EP Millstone]

Next: played Death

Frederic March in Death Takes a Holiday

Next: Always scary as a villain but in real-life completely opposite.

[Dargo]

Next: Always scary as a villain but in real-life completely opposite.

Edward G. Robinson

Next: actor who'd supply the glib offhanded observations in dramas (...AND, lets say other than George Sanders or Clifton Webb)

[laffite]

Thelma Ridder

next : a sneaky one

[Sepiatone]

next : a sneaky one

PETER LORRE

Next:

Braggart


Sepiatone

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Burt Reynolds

Next- looks great in both B&W and Technicolor

[Cinemaspeak59]

Betty Grable

Next: Golden Era star who flourished after the fall of the studio system.

[Dargo]

Next: Golden Era star who flourished after the fall of the studio system.

Elizabeth Taylor

(...and FWIW and in regard to Det.Jim's earlier next of "looks great in both B&W and Technicolor", I was about to post Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland before noticing I was a hair too late in answering)

Next: an ancient philosopher

[LawrenceA]

H.B. Warner


next: played strong guys