Actors Who Almost Never Smiled On Their Shows

Some who come to mind are-David Jansen[The Fugitive]...John Russell[Lawman]...Robert Stack[The Untouchables]...Broderick Crawford[Highway Patrol...Jack Lord[Haweii Five -O].

 

Michael Dorn – Star Trek TNG/DS9

 

Robert Mitchum
Charlton Heston
Steve McQueen
Clint Eastwood

Certainly they smiled and laughed, but not very often — and as they got older, even less.

 

Leonard Nimoy - Star Trek
Jack Webb - Dragnet
Craig Stevens - Peter Gunn
Herschel Bernardi - Peter Gunn
William Demarest - My Three Sons
Jack Riley - The Bob Newhart Show
William Sanderson - Newhart
Michael Moriarty - Law & Order

 

Wow, those are some good ones. Good memory.

 

everyone on mr robot

 

Lou Ferrigno - The Incredible Hulk

 

Edward James Olmos in Miami Vice.

Rare exception: the episode where Spock's emotions are allowed to bloom, in "This Side of Paradise."

 

I couldn’t believe he won an Emmy for that role.

 

Olmos actually was (and is) a very, very good actor. I thought he gave several riveting performances on Miami Vice; he was a much better actor than the other regulars, IMHO.

BTW, Jack Riley was a very funny man and a fantastic VO actor for radio commercials, and I recorded him quite a few times in the late 1970s. He really did laugh -- loud and often -- and was a very funny man who had a lot more range than we ever saw on Bob Newhart.

 

Rod Serling on ' Twilight Zone '.
Was smiling allowed there?

 

I always liked him as Mr. Carlin on The Bob Newhart Show...

As Elliot Carlin, he may not have laughed or smiled, but he did so well in the role comedy wise, you knew he had to have a sense of humor in "real life".

 

from an episode titled "Danny". But you did say *almost never*.

 

Patrick MacGoohan - The Prisoner

 

Bosch - Bosch.

 

I don't recall ever seeing Charles Bronson smile.

 

Liev Schreiber - Ray Donovan

 

There was a Christmas movie Charles Bronson made in the early 90s, with Ed Asner and Richard Thomas, which saw Bronson displayed a gentler side of himself.

I know....putting the words "Christmas movie" and "Charles Bronson" together in one sentence is kinda odd.

Btw, here's an amusing story about Charles Bronson, as told by Kirk Russell....

 

Not suprised. He had nothing to smile about.

 

Any of the main actors on any of the "Law and Order" shows.

 

Walter Cronkite.

 

It may have pained John Russell to smile!!

 

Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn would smile in his scenes with Lola Albright as Edie Hart. I always thought they had great chemistry on screen.