[DemforBush]

And, while I’m here, my picks for some of the most overlooked/underrated actors and actresses of all time:

5. James Remar (best known as the hot-headed Ajax from The Warriors, Dutch Schultz in The Cotton Club, and Dexter’s dad from Dexter)

4. Gena Rowlands

3. Aaron Eckhart

Runner up: Harry Dean Stanton - best character actor alive. Not one bad performance in 50 some years of acting.

And the most underrated American actor of all time: John Cazale. Not only is he largely overlooked as one of the greats, he turned in probably the most underrated performance of all time: Fredo in Godfather 2. IMHO, Cazale’s Fredo is the best acted, most complex, most nuanced part in the entire film. He only made five films before bone cancer claimed him, but he was never anything less than superb.

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And the most underrated American actor of all time: John Cazale. Not only is he largely overlooked as one of the greats, he turned in probably the most underrated performance of all time: Fredo in Godfather 2. IMHO, Cazale’s Fredo is the best acted, most complex, most nuanced part in the entire film. He only made five films before bone cancer claimed him, but he was never anything less than superb.

I had no idea he and Meryl Streep were an item.