 YKTGs You Don't Want to Piss Off! |
 Grrr! |
Official Website: http://members.tripod.com/~DanCassian/RobertDaviFanClub.html (a very exuberant site run by a woman whose first language is not English)
Where You've Seen Him Before:
- The Goonies as Jake Fratelli
- Die Hard as Big Johnson
- License to Kill as Franz Sanchez
- Showgirls as Al Torres
- Profiler (the TV series) as Bailey Malone
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as the voice of Colonel Juan Cortez
Robert Davi is one of my all time favorite bad guys. Whenever he appears on screen, there's no doubt where he stands on things. He's a sleaze ball, a slime bucket, a con man, a real bad dude. It's probably his deep set eyes and pock marked face that originally got him cast in these types of low-life roles and over the years he's perfected that one note character into a myriad of on-screen jerks. My personal favorite is probably his turn as the horrifyingly ape-like strip club manager in Showgirls. Forced to utter some of the most gut-wrenchingly disgusting and hilarious dialogue in recent film memory, Davi rose to the challenge and added extra slime to an already stunningly slimy character. Most people in the X, Y or Z generations will probably recall Davi from his role as dimwitted bad guy Jake Fratelli in The Goonies opposite fellow YKTG Mr. Joey Pants. Either way, Robert Davi has paid his dues, he's perfected the one guy he keeps getting cast to play over and over again and he deserves a little damn recognition for all his hard work.
 Mercy is for the weak! |
Official Website: none, but check out this scary site devoted to The Karate Kid: http://www.fast-rewind.com/kkid/index.html
Where You've Seen Him Before:
- Death Race 2000 as Nero the Hero
- Cagney and Lacy (TV series) as Det. Victor Isbecki
- The Karate Kid trilogy as John Kreese
- Rambo: First Blood Part II as Ericson (Special Ops Pilot)
- The Thief and the Stripper as Face
- Crocodile 2: Death Swamp as Roland
I've got the following four words to say about Martin Kove: "Sweep the leg Johnny." Okay, fine. I'll expound upon that by saying that Kove is best known as playing the villainous sensei in the Karate Kid franchise. And since I've watched The Karate Kid at least a zillion times in my life, that's really the only role of his that has left any kind of lasting impact on me. However, he's also played super tough guys in movies like Rambo: First Blood and Death Race 2000. Part of the reason Kove is so convincing as a super tough guy with a heart of stone might have something to do with the fact that he's a Vietnam vet and he's got decades of acting experience under his belt. With a face to be reckoned with, any time he appears on screen, everyone knows there's a bad ass on the loose.
 No, not that tiny, the other one! |
Official Website: none
Where You've Seen Him Before:
- No Holds Barred as Zeus
- Friday, Next Friday as Deebo
- The Fifth Element as President Lindberg
- Little Nicky as Cassius
- Austin Powers in Goldmember as Prisoner #2
Are you a casting director in Hollywood? Are you casting the roll of "crazy, gigantic black man" for your next project? Maybe you're thinking that Michael Clarke Duncan is the way to go for such a roll. Or perhaps you've actually seen a movie or two and really want to up the levels of crazy and gigantic for your crazy, gigantic black man. If that's the case, I give you Mr. Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr. I don't know for sure if he's really crazy, but he most certainly is gigantic. (He's 6'5" and weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 pounds.) And since he's got that rascally crossed eye and arms the size of small women, crazy isn't much of a stretch for him. Besides which, "Tiny" Lister's been playing crazy, gigantic black men for decades. He has a decent amount of wrestling experience, can do broad comedy or serious action and, well, you try to tell him he can't have the part. I'll be over here cowering under something big and wishing you the best of luck.
 "Cuddly teddy bear" comes to mind |
Official Website: (it's not official, but it sure is funny) http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/8290/bendover.html
Where You've Seen Him Before:
- Uncommon Valor as Sailor
- The Golden Child as Til
- Raising Arizona as Leonard Smalls
- Fletch Lives as Ben Dover
- Ernest Goes to Jail as Lyle (Nash's prison mate)
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective as Dog Owner
Whoever invented the phrase "tough as leather" probably had Randall "Tex" Cobb in mind when they said it. Most famous perhaps for his roll as Leonard Smalls in the Cohen Brothers "Raising Arizona", his on-screen legacy is most concisely summed up as follows: In that film, he lights a match on his face and it seems relatively likely that he didn't need to use any kind of special effects to make it happen. Mr. Cobb's been out of show business for a number of years now, but in the big pile of roles he played throughout the 1980's and early 1990's he made his mark loud and clear.
 EAT ALL YOUR VEGETABLES! |
Official Website: http://www.rleeermey.com/introindex.php
Where You've Seen Him Before:
- Full Metal Jacket as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
- Fletch Lives as Jimmy Lee Farnsworth
- Se7ven as Police Captain
- Dead Man Walking as Clyde Percy
- Toy Story and Toy Story 2 as Army Sarge
R. Lee Ermey was a Marine for 11 years and rose to the rank of Staff Sargent before injury forced him to end his career. He did one and a half tours of duty in 'Nam. He acted as a technical advisor on many of his early films based on his vast personal knowledge of the military. So it should come as no surprise that his appearance as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket cemented his bulldog face and pit bull bark in the public's collective consciousness. Since Full Metal Jacket, Ermey has played any number of other parts during the past couple of decades. Sure, many of those were as Captains, Police Chiefs, Generals, Presidents, Senators and other men in positions of unquestioned authority. So it kind of makes sense that most people would vaguely recognize his face and instantly feel like apologizing for existing. We say thanks Mr. Ermey. For kicking ass and taking names both in the movies and in real life. We respect you because we fear you. And that's just the way it should be.
Posted: July 12, 2003
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