"That Guy"!

Here's a site where you can look up character actors by their pictures, because you don't know their names.
Have you ever been watching TV or a movie and pointed to the screen and said, "Hey! It's That Guy!"? Well, here is where you'll find him. This page is dedicated to the character actors collectively known as "That Guy".

That Guy is easy to recognize and difficult to place. You can describe him but not name him.

You'll know a lot of the faces, and now you'll know their names as well, and each is linked to their Internet Movie Database (IMDb) page. Pictured is Ed Lauter, who has appeared in 193 movies and television shows! Link -Thanks, Holistic CPA!

I remember a few years back - Southwest Airlines in flight magazine did a "That guy" article. It featured the top ten "that guy" guys.
Fantastic that there is a site for it now.
Needs a follow up "Hey. It's that chick." site.
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:) These are known in the business as character actors. The phenomenon of the prominence of facial recognition to verbal reaction ratio though, that can be annoying. Try watching a movie with someone who recognizes the guy in that one scene... oh he's the guy from that one movie (what is it?) it's driving me nuts... etc.

One of my favs is this guy David Bowe. He went from UHF to commercial domination, but also turns up in movies from time to time.
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Robert Lansing needs to be added to the list, especially since I always used to get him confused with a guy who is on the list, Peter Mark Richman.
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@yvgeny: that book was based on a section of Ariano et al's popular website created over ten years ago -
http://www.fametracker.com/hey_its_that_guy/
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@chillman

I guess you missed the few Asians, blacks and Hispanics I found in that list...I think there's even a Native American or two.

And the word "guy" in "Hey, it's That Guy!" generally means the actor will be a man.
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Hi,

Does anybody know a person that can see an old movie and instantly recognize some of the actors(character actors). I'm trying to find out who some of the uncredited actors are in "The Graduate". I've used IMDB but it's none of the actors they have listed, they do have some uncredited actors listed also but none that I'm looking for. Thanks.
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