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- Jeffrey Jones – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) In the John Hughes-directed teen comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Jeffrey Jones plays the smug and slimy Ed Rooney, the dean of students who becomes determined to catch the school-skipping Ferris (Matthew Broderick) red-handed.
- Michael Biehn – Tombstone (1993) Tombstone includes a who's who of iconic mustaches, including Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp and Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday.
- Danny Trejo – Desperado (1995) After a little over 10 years in the movie business, Danny Trejo got his first big-screen break in the 1995 Robert Rodriguez film Desperado, where he rocked his now-signature mustache.
- Alfred Molina – Dudley Do-Right (1999) Remember the stereotypical silent movie villain mentioned earlier? Well, Snidely Whiplash, who was the main antagonist in the Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties segments of the 1950s animated series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, was a homage to this style of bad guy, sporting a top hat, a handlebar mustache, and a sinister ear-to-ear grin.
Whenever someone thinks about silent cinema the image of the laughing villain, twirling his mustache, and tying the hapless blonde beauty to the railroad, pops up in our collective memory. But in which movie (or movies) did that particular image first appear?
May 13, 2016 · silent movie villain villain. Ask the average person to describe a silent movie villain and you'll probably hear something like this: "Big, curly mustache, black top hat, black cape. Always terrorizing damsels."
Jan 23, 2017 · Many of the elements of the trope most people are familiar with are there, but the mustachioed villain cackling while they tied a helpless woman to the tracks was just not something that...
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Whiplash is the stereotypical villain in the style of stock characters found in silent films and earlier stage melodrama, wearing black clothing and a top hat and with a handlebar moustache. Whiplash's henchman, Homer, usually wears a tuque. In the cartoon's opening segments, Whiplash is seen tying Nell Fenwick to a railroad track.
In the Batman (1966) episode, "The Riddler's False Notion", the Riddler has planned a series of crimes with a silent movie theme. During one caper, he is dressed as the titular villain, wearing a black top hat and cape over his green tights, and wearing a false mustache and carrying a whip.
James Henderson Finlayson (27 August 1887 – 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Balding, with a fake moustache, [1] he had many trademark comic mannerisms—including his squinting, outraged double-take reactions, and his characteristic exclamation: "D'ooooooh!" He is the best remembered comic ...
