What actor/actress comes to mind?

[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

[Intrepid37]

Next- a sneer

Robert J. Wilkie

next: unrecognizable in a certain part (not Gary Oldman - he was named already when I asked the same question a while ago)

[Dargo]

next: unrecognizable in a certain part (not Gary Oldman - he was named already when I asked the same question a while ago)

John Hurt (in 'The Elephan Man')

Next: How about another one of these

[ziggy6708a]

Lawrence Steven Meyers as 'Little Face'
in 'Dick Tracy'

- played a dancer, but obviously couldn't dance

[Dargo]

- played a dancer, but obviously couldn't dance

John Travolta (c'mon now...who couldn't Disco dance as well as this guy back in the day, I ask?!...I mean, it wasn't all THAT hard to do, ya know...all it took was having a reasonably good sense of beat, ya know!...and don't EVEN get me started on that flick he made a few years later, and where in every dance scene he's in is cut within 5 freakin' seconds and to a whole new camera angle...hell, Kelly and Astaire, or that THAT matter almost ANY dancer from the golden age never had to resort to this cheap trick in THEIR movies, ya know!!!) LOL

Next: she was just so darn cute that you just couldn't resist falling in love with her

[Intrepid37]

Next: she was just so darn cute that you just couldn't resist falling in love with her

Christina Ricci

From childhood to adulthood she has owned the screen for me in every movie she's in. Can't take my eyes off her. I fell for her when she was just a kid in The Addams Family movies and fell even harder after she matured into a grown beauty.

next: gang member, but not a leader.