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Ten Actors Who Look Like Aliens
March 3rd, 2010
Maybe this is in bad taste. I don’t know. I don’t care too much. There are some weird looking actors out there who have gotten a lot of work over the years. They’re not ugly. They’re “Hollywood Ugly” which means you don’t scream when you see them and there’s something about the way they look that makes you keep looking. Not sure what I mean?
Let’s start with Ron Perlman, who has done a lot of great work. Quest for Fire, Hellboy, and on TV Beauty and the Beast. Notice a pattern? He’s playing cavemen, monsters, and demons, with minimal makeup. Here he is being honored for his work portraying a beast:
Then there’s Steve Buscemi, who in the movie Fargo keeps being described as “funny looking.” Yeah. How about in other movies:
Reminds me of Marty Feldman (EYE-Gor in Young Frankenstein):
Then there’s Vincent Schiavelli who played alien John O’Conner in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and the crazy ghost in Ghost:
Willem Dafoe, oh yes, a natural for vampires and green goblins:
Oh, one of my faves! Michael Berryman…
Richard Kiel, Jaws from the old James Bond movies:
Rowan Atkinson, of Black Adder and Mr. Bean fame:
How about women? How about alien Shelly Duvall? Or maybe she’s from the future, or an elf, or something in the eyes, like Buscemi and Feldman…see her in a kafkaesque moment:
And finally, Tilda Swinton, that androgynous angel in Constantine:
Who did I forget? Who is more deserving???
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March 3rd, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Well, Dominique Pinon, obviously!
http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0684500/
March 4th, 2010 at 3:23 am
What about Christopher Walken?
March 4th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Michael Barryman always reminds me of Pierluigi Collina, the worldwide famous italian referee.
http://www.sconefest.com/john/blog/list/collina.jpg
March 4th, 2010 at 10:03 am
Walken is an honorable mention, on the list if we let him talk…
March 4th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Robert Z’Dar (Tango & Cash)
March 4th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Jack Palance
March 4th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Grace Jones
March 4th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Steve Buscemi
March 4th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Tyra Banks (both she and Grace are hot aliens IMO.)
March 4th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Shemar Moore (Criminal Minds) and the Old Spice Guy: they’re TOO good looking: definitely Aliens.
March 4th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
All Rock Stars
March 4th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
[...] Mike Brotherton has a nice post about Ten Actors Who Look Like Aliens. [...]
March 5th, 2010 at 9:54 am
^^ Dont think its about ten actors who look like aliens, since Mike, above all else, will probably agree that the possibility of aliens looking so antropomorhic is slim to say the least.
More like “hollywood thinks look like aliens”.
March 5th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Some good suggestions!
March 9th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Gotta throw one in the ring here: Clint Howard, Ron’s little brother, who shows up in just about ALL his movies (along with his dad Rance). Clint isn’t just “hollywood ugly” though, he’s ugly, ugly.
March 10th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Clint Howard:
Remember Balok in ‘The Corbomite Maneuver’; in the original Star Trek?