What actor/actress comes to mind?

[LawrenceA]

Montgomery Clift


next: undercover cop

[Intrepid37]

Montgomery Clift


next: undercover cop

Susan Blakely (in Report to the Commissioner)

next: uniformed cop

[KayFrancis]

Montgomery Clift


next: undercover cop

Susan Blakely (in Report to the Commissioner)

next: uniformed cop

Lloyd Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Next : actor appeared in films many times in a wheelchair

[LawrenceA]

Lionel Barrymore


next: older woman character actress

[EP Millstone]

next: older woman character actress

Connie Gilchrist

Next: Battle-axe

[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