Camera Lucida

This post’s title seems like an oxymoron nowadays due to six packs and anorexics taking over the silver screen. Back in time however there were several actors who were ugly like hell but who made a very important contribution to modern day cinema and who left a considerable imprint on the films they acted in.

Ugly actors I like:

Ron Perlman (the Beauty and the Beast, In the Name of the Rose);

Marty Feldman (Young Frankenstein);

Plinio Fernando (in almost all of Paolo Villagio’s films);

Alvaro Vitali (Mighty Pierino!)

Vincent Schiavelli (Amadeus, Blade Runner, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest);

Keith David (Requiem For a Dream, Pitch Black, Armageddon);

Woody Harrelson (Natural Born Killers);