Some actors stake their claim in the movie industry by doing ritzy-big time-huge pay day projects to get their names splashed all over everything. They become a product, a commodity for Hollywood bigwigs to manipulate in order to make oodles of dough. In exchange, the actors themselves become "stars" whose celebrity outshines their talent in exchange for diva studio deals and infinite ego massaging power and fame. We Mutants don't hold anything against this kind of actor/celebrity entity. They just bore us. Here at the MRFH, we prefer to respect and admire those actors who will, with or without huge parts or huge pay checks, consciously and consistently hand in interesting, diverse and compelling performances. Occasionally these actors hit the big time (Kevin Spacey, Sean Penn) but most often, they build solid careers in anonymity and feed their families making bunches of movies a year without ever doing whirl-wind press junkets or writing articles about themselves for Premiere magazine. This page is our attempt to celebrate those film actors who don't have above the title marquee status but who deserve your attention and have paid their dues to earn your respect. You may not know their names but chances are good that you'll recognize their faces because they're you know, those guys!

Delroy Lindo (1952 - present)

Total on-screen appearances (per the IMDb): 37 (34 Movie / 3 TV)

You've most likely seen him in:

• Malcolm X
• Romeo Must Die
• The Cider House Rules
• Gone in 60 Seconds

Extremely Unofficial Web-site: http://www.siu.edu/~carib/DelroyLindo.htm

Delroy Lindo is who I like to consider the thinking (wo)man's Samuel L. Jackson. Both gained early recognition in Spike Lee Joints (Jackson in Do the Right Thing and Mo' Better Blues, Lindo in Malcolm X and Crooklyn). But Lindo hasn't yet found his Pulp Fiction: that one movie that will put him into the minds and hearts of producers, casting directors and movie goers from coast to coast. Many people recognize his face, and a few even know his name, but as of this writing he's not yet achieved Jacksonesque measures of fame. It's too bad too. Because what he lacks in recognition he more than makes up for in acting prowess and pedigree. Born and raised by Jamaican parents in Lewisham, England he moved to Toronto, Canada in his teens and then went on to graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. A stint acting mostly in theater productions soon followed until the late 1980's when he earnestly began a film career. In 1992 Spike Lee cast him as West Indian Archie in his epic biopic of slain civil rights icon Malcolm X. From there Lindo has slowly but surely been making a name for himself. Equally capable of playing sweet and innocent (in A Life Less Ordinary he played an actual angel) or quietly monstrous (as in The Cider House Rules), he is most surely deserving of some hard earned attention from the Hollywood establishment. For now though, he's just another hard working actor pounding the pavement to rub some coin together. For this, as with all our You Know That Guys, we salute you Mr. Lindo.

If you want to sample some of Delroy Lindo's more interesting roles, you should see:

• The Blood of Heroes
• Get Shorty
• Crooklyn
• Blood In Blood Out: Bound by Honor