Random Roles

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  Random Roles Fred Willard on playing boobs and the occasional authority figure 

  The Trust Us With Your Life host talks laughing at Ron Burgundy, surprising Christopher Guest, and not improvising for Trust Us With Your Life

  July 17, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Random Roles Veteran character actor Ed Lauter has 40 years’ worth of Hollywood stories

  The Artist’s Butler talks True Romance, The Longest Yard, and the best advice he ever gave Patrick Swayze. 

  July 11, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  Random Roles Deliverance’s Ronny Cox on RoboCop, Total Recall, and the glory of Cop Rock 

  The sensitive folkie from Deliverance discusses playing villains in RoboCop, Total Recall, and Dexter and the lost glory of Cop Rock.

  July 5, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  Random Roles Lesley Ann Warren on Victor Victoria and The Actors Studio 

  “It doesn’t matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.” 

  July 4, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Random Roles Ed Asner on crotchety roles from Lou Grant to Up

  The ubiquitous character actor talks roles from Lou Grant to Elf to Up.

  July 3, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  Random Roles Barry Corbin talks roles from Anger Management to No Country For Old Men

  The Anger Management character actor talks roles from WarGames to Modern Family to No Country For Old Men.

  June 28, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Random Roles The Love Boat’s Bernie Kopell on being a ship’s doctor, a chimpanzee spy, and a dad 

  “Hang in there, ’cause you never know what marvelous thing might be around the corner.” 

  June 27, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  Random Roles Phil LaMarr on Futurama and getting shot in the face for Pulp Fiction

  The voiceover star talks about worrying that Larry David was going to dump his corpse in a ditch.

  June 26, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  Random Roles Brent Spiner on playing Conan O’Brien, Data on Star Trek, and Brent Spiner

  The actor discusses the many iterations of Star Trek and his other roles.

  June 22, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Random Roles Ubiquitous voice actor Maurice LaMarche on Futurama, Pinky And The Brain, and more 

  The ubiquitous voice actor from Futurama, Ghostbusters, Pinky And The Brain, The Tick, and many more talks collaborative cartooning and failing to recognize Brad Pitt as the next big thing.

  June 20, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Random Roles Harold Perrineau on Lost, Oz, and co-starring with Nicolas Cage in Seeking Justice

  “I’m working on Sons Of Anarchy, and I walked on set, and the director goes, ‘There’s Harold Perrineau. You’re not screaming, ‘Walt!’”

  June 18, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  Random Roles Bob Balaban on a four-decade career, translating for Truffaut, and Moonrise Kingdom 

  The actor and director discusses the highlights of a four-decade career, from translating for François Truffaut on Close Encounters Of The Third Kind to Wes Anderson’s particular genius on Moonrise Kingdom. 

  June 15, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Random Roles Ernie Hudson talks Oz and losing out on the Ghostbusters cartoon

  “After all these years, almost 30 years later, whenever I’m on the street, someone will call out, ‘Who you gonna call?’” 

  June 13, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Random Roles Rizzoli & Isles’ Bruce McGill looks back at Animal House, MacGyver, and more 

  “I feel like with what I know and what I can deliver, if I look enough like the guy, and they don’t use me, then that’s their shortcoming.” 

  June 5, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Random Roles Titus Welliver 

  “Working with David Milch is like Navy SEAL training for an actor. Some people are cut out for it and some people aren’t.” 

  May 31, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  Random Roles Bill Paxton

  The veteran actor talks his way from his early Roger Corman days to his roles in Big Love, Aliens, Weird Science, and the new miniseries Hatfields & McCoys. 

  May 28, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Random Roles Actress, memoirist, and set dresser Sissy Spacek looks back on some key roles

  “It’s never boring or dull.”

  May 24, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Random Roles Veteran character actor Robert Picardo on his work in and out of the makeup chair

  “My joke is that Joe Dante casts me whenever he can’t figure out what to do with a part.” 

  May 22, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Random Roles Common Law star Jack McGee on working with everyone from Vanilla Ice to Ron Howard

  “Verhoeven says to me, ‘You wanna come up for three weeks to Tahoe and look at 56 breasts a day?’” 

  May 18, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  Random Roles Dick Miller talks working with Corman, Scorsese, and getting peed on by a monkey

  “It was a long picture: We shot about five days!”

  May 16, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Random Roles Ted McGinley talks Happy Days, The West Wing, and being the “patron saint” of jumping the shark 

  A longtime TV staple talks about Happy Days, The West Wing, Sports Night, The Love Boat, and more.

  May 15, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Random Roles Jackie Earle Haley on Bad News Bears, Watchmen, Dark Shadows, and drinking with Danny Bonaduce

  The Bad News Bears child actor who went on to Little Children and Watchmen talks about Dark Shadows and getting drunk with Danny Bonaduce.

  May 11, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Random Roles Police Academy made Tim Kazurinsky an action figure; Curb Your Enthusiasm immortalized him on a T-shirt

  “They want me to be a cop? I’m like 50 to 60 years old in this!”

  May 10, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  Random Roles From Ghostbusters to GCB, the many roles of Annie Potts

  “I’ve had some pretty serious bona fide success with roles within groups of Southern women.”

  May 4, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  Random Roles Kathleen Turner talks The Perfect Family, Body Heat, and her return to cinema

  “We all just felt like we were this club against the Hollywood machine. It was really quite exciting.”

  May 4, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Random Roles Joe Pantoliano was in Risky Business and The Sopranos and has stories to prove it

  The prolific actor and memoirist talks about his long career.

  May 3, 2012 | 1:30pm -

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  Random Roles Veep’s Tony Hale talks about Arrested Development and creeping out James Van Der Beek 

  Tony Hale on Veep, Arrested Development, and Larry The Cable Guy.

  April 27, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Random Roles Shirley MacLaine talks about Bernie, Alfred Hitchcock, and Dean Martin

  “I don’t think you go out of style when you’re living in the present most of the time.”

  April 26, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Random Roles Cloris Leachman talks about the horror movie The Fields and much more

  The veteran actress talks about everything from The Last Picture Show to Raising Hope to the new horror film The Fields.

  April 24, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Random Roles Isabella Rossellini talks Late Bloomers, Blue Velvet, and more

  The actress talks about her roles in film, television, and the spaces in between.

  April 20, 2012 | 12:00pm -