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Favorite Performance? (Besides Napoleon Solo)

posted 5 years ago by Moviebuff1 (2835)
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For me, it's Chalmers from Bullitt.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

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[–] PaladinNJ (21762) 5 years ago

Lee in Magnificent Seven

[–] [email protected] (6224) 5 years ago

In a rare sitcom appearance, I enjoyed his role of Jim Darling on The Dick van Dyke Show. He was Laura's old boyfriend and was now a millionaire who became a new sponsor of The Alan Brady Show. Rob was totally green with envy.

[–] sslssg (35124) 5 years ago

How can you pick just one?

Senator Parker in The Towering Inferno maybe?

[–] Doghouse (456) 5 years ago

"Favorite?" Lemme come back to that in a sec.

For "Best," I go with your choice. Just coming off four years as the dashing, tongue-in-cheek Napoleon Solo, the erudite, arrogant and publicity-hungry Chalmers was a game changer for Vaughan. With Solo, he reinvented himself in 1964, and did so again with Chalmers in '68. His tortured Chester Gwynn in 1959's The Young Philadelphians runs a close second.

But for favorite, as in the one for which I have the most affection and most enjoy, it's the charming and avuncular Albert Stroller, the elder-statesman con man in Hustle, the English series of 2004-'12. He's irresistible.

[–] liscarkat (19385) 4 years ago

Yeah, Chalmers in "Bullit" was a great role. The guy was a total a-hole politician, but Vaughn got it perfect. Should have got a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

The Magnificent Seven.