Best drunk in a movie?
Sterling Hayden in "The Long Goodbye."
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Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965)
https://youtu.be/cz6fKjtQ1zI
https://youtu.be/QRJJDxe0fgc - ("He did. He missed the barn!" was always one of my favorite lines in a movie)
He was so good in fact, that he won the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor for this role.
And for the record, this film was made before Jane Fonda became Hanoi Jane.
Charlie Allnutt in The African Queen (51)
shareFoster Brooks in The Villain.
I know it's not a great movie, but Brooks did the best drunk act I ever saw to this day.
He worked a lot with Dean Martin on his shows (check out the airplane pilot sketch), and was a regular on those comedy roasts they used to do a lot back in the sixties.
The movie where Kirk Douglas basically plays Wile E. Coyote? I havenβt seen it in a long time but I really enjoyed it.
shareI only saw that movie in full when it was on UK TV last week, and had no idea Foster Brooks was in it.
It's ok...i know it was not well recieved when it was first released, many though the Chuck Jones/Road Runner homage stuff just didnt work.
Rick Blaine in Casablanca too.
Bogie excelled at playing drunks. Unlike many of his contemporaries Bogie's sots were human beings and not dialed-up-to-eleven cartoon characters.
I second Dudley Moore.
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Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady
Mr. Bacchus (ship's surgeon) in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles
Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
Denzel Washington - Flight
who left that door ajar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZbvbWznmaM