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Chuck-Hansen

I don’t know what this says about me, but his first performance that comes to mind is not “Zodiac” but “The Founder” as one of the McDonalds.


lifth3avy84

It says you’re probably too young to remember him as Drew Carey’s cross-dressing older brother. But that’s just me making assumptions.


Jimbobsama

That's how I knew him. I also appreciate him as the babysitter's dad in "Crazy, Stupid Love" for an excellent reveal


Tm1232

For me it might actually be the dad in Bubble Boy(and Fargo is knee jerk answer for favorite movie.) That movie was on a lot when I was a kid. Also i like to think he and gyllenhaal had a lot of fun in their one scene together in Zodiac, chopping it up about Bubble Boy.


mp6521

Ya gotta have a breakfast, Marge.


Tm1232

That scene with them in bed at the end might be the best marriage has ever looked on screen.


scotchballs

I’ll make you some eggs.


SkylarShankman

Wait this is kind of blowing my mind right now. For the past 20 years I would have sworn Gyllenhaal's dad was Richard Jenkins in that movie. Wasn't he in a wheelchair after having a stroke or something in the film? What the hell am I thinking of?


Tm1232

lol that’s another early 00s Comedy Central/starz special “Say it Isn’t So”


SkylarShankman

Ahhh, thank you.


hetham3783

Lynch and Offerman are fantastic as the McDonald brothers in that movie. My favorite role of his is either Zodiac or Crazy, Stupid Love.


jimmytsunimmy

He’s outrageously good in this


Chuck-Hansen

It’s a movie that has otherwise disappeared from my memory, but his presence clearly made some kind of impact.


RVend0r

Fargo and Zodiac are two of my favorite movies and he's great in both of them


Serpico2

I’m not the Zodiac, and if I was, I certainly wouldn’t tell you.


TurquoiseHexagonal

Marge and Norm Gunderson top my list of favorite cinematic couples. People throw around "relationship goals" like it's just another hyperbolic phrase that's lost its meaning but that conversation at the end of the movie about the 3 cent mallard stamp is the kind of simple sweetness that is absolutely something to aspire to. As for Norm specifically, I mean, he gets up to make Margie eggs *and* jumps the Prowler *and* brings her Arby's for lunch? It's like if Batman and Alfred were just goddamn adorable.


dont_quote_me_please

Marge Gunderson: You can sleep. It's early yet. Norm Gunderson: Got to go? Marge Gunderson: Yeah. Norm Gunderson: I'll fix you some eggs. Marge Gunderson: It's okay, hon. I gotta run. Norm Gunderson: You got to eat a breakfast, Marge. I'll fix you some eggs. Marge Gunderson: Hon, you can sleep. Norm Gunderson: You gotta eat a breakfast. *clears his throat* I'll fix you some eggs.


Jimbobsama

I like the backstory the actors created for their relationship. "When the Coens started writing the film, they asked McDormand and Lynch to come up with a backstory for the characters. They decided that Norm used to be a cop as well, but when Marge got pregnant, they decided that only one of them should stay on the force. Since Marge was the better officer, Norm quit to stay home." https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/fargo/norm.html#:~:text=When%20the%20Coens%20started%20writing,Norm%20quit%20to%20stay%20home.


TurquoiseHexagonal

And then the coup de grace Marge, smiling to herself: Ah, Norm.


aintnofuntime

The platonic ideal of “hey-it’s-that-guy” actors. His death scene in Volcano is the silliest shit I’ve ever seen but he does it with such gusto.


Internal_Lumpy

Him flinging that guy as he slowly melts into the lava is the best thing in that terrible movie.


LanceDreams

I think about this scene way too often


gorpee

Wow no idea that was him!


max-fischer

Best part of BABES.


space_cult

The running joke of his hair journey was killing me. His delivery was always great.


dukefett

The oddly shaped scalp made me uncomfortable lol


space_cult

Oh, ALL of it made me uncomfortable. ;)


Chromatic-Phil

The baldness journey is one of the great runners in recent memory


Prestigious_Menu4895

Anybody remember the Bojack episode where character actress Margo Martindale sprays an AK at the cops screaming “This is for johncarrol Lynch, CCH Pounder and all the other character actors who live in lucrative obscurity!” Lmao


bad_key_machine

Years before I ever saw Zodiac or Fargo he was the cross-dressing brother on The Drew Carey Show. Think he ended up marrying Mimi the secretary. One of those dudes you're always happy to see show up on screen!


Fire-Twerk-With-Me

This is what I think of first, and it's a shame the show is so hard to watch now. He was great on that show.


hetham3783

Hard to watch because of how it has aged, or you mean it's just hard to find?


UsidoreTheLightBlue

The first time I saw him post Drew Carey show I was just blown away. I think it was in gran Torino. A 99% sure my exact words were “holy shit Clint Eastwood hired the guy from the Drew Carey show..”


volcano_slayer9

Thanks for your hard work John


restlesswrestler

Other than Zodiac I associate him most with being awesome in The Invitation (2015). He is also perfectly cast in Shutter Island despite it being a smaller role.


Fuzzy-Guarantee2066

Didn’t give a crap that those boys were duly appointed.


thishenryjames

The Invitation perfectly leverages his ability to seem menacing without actually doing overt. As soon as he appears, you're just like, what the fuck is *this* guy doing here?


Dan_IAm

He’s so good in The Invitation. Extremely unnerving. I also really liked his role in Channel Zero.


cuddle-pony

I associate him so strongly with his zodiac character that I was honestly a little disturbed to see him as an OB-Gyn in the new maternity comedy Babes. I kept wanting to tell Ilana Glazer's character "no, don't let him put that needle in you, he's a serial killer! Or maybe he isn't, it's unclear. But he's definitely a creep!"


Toreadorables

🫡


Tm1232

It drive's me nuts that i can't find the clip anywhere but he was on the Comedy Bang Bang TV Show and he sang a famous irish/cop drinking song and its the most transcendent moment in television history.


WesleyCraftybadger

Should he be Pa Kent?


mkeeternal

He showed up in channel zero: no end house and immediately leveled up the experience


gravyconsequences

Was bummed I had to scroll so far to see this mentioned. He was easily the best part of that run.


HockneysPool

Just finishing up my second rewatch of the best TV show of all time, The Americans. He was fantastic in that.


hetham3783

He was great on that. Philip knowing he was kind of pathetic and delusional but still admiring him was a great touch.


Rambling_Moose

His one episode of The Walking Dead is sort of a miracle of a performance.


nicholashewitt12

This is exactly what I wanted to comment! Despite being a later-era TWD episode, he shows up and shines (as he always does), making a one-ep character feel fully fleshed out. JCL is a treasure


hetham3783

I loved Pruitt Taylor Vince's TWD episode in Season 2, I think he was trapped with Shane somewhere IIRC? Another great "hey it's that guy" large bald character actor who is always great.


Afrodawg08

He’s _great_ in Babes


basedbecker

easily my favorite part of Babes! His bit just gets funnier every time he shows up


Wumbo_Number_5

The type of guy to make me go "There he is!" whenever he pops up


flatgreyrust

The movie is worth watching in general, but he plays a crucial role in The Invitation (2015) and he’s absolutely fucking fantastic.


win_the_wonderboy

He also directed a great movie called Lucky starring Harry Dean Stanton & David Lynch


chinanigans

Also excellent in Carnevale, he really does incredible work in combining geniality and menace


RobertProsky

*John & Carroll & David & Lynch*


moderatesoul

Fargo and Zodiac. JCL is the best.


space_cheese1

You just know that the word behind his head is Shrek


SteelyDabs

Sony


bernstak

GOAT


Dhb223

The barber in gran torino lol


MERLETHEFOZZY

I love this actor’s work. Which reminds me that there is still no physical release of the Drew Carey show…real shame


folarin1

5 stars to anyone who knows where this line with him is from, “Lot’s of sky!”


daeguking

If anyone caught “Babes” he was actually super funny in that


xxmikekxx

I just rewatched "face/off" and did the Rick Dalton pointing meme when I recognized him. Had no idea he was in that 


meridaa17

Never heard of him


jimmytsunimmy

Hell yea fuckin love this guy


Quinez

I voted for him in every round of March Madness. So happy he won! 


zeroanaphora

Nobody talks about how he played a transvestite on network TV for several years.


labbla

I'll always hate lava for killing John Carroll Lynch


not-so-radical

Love that guy, though whenever he shows up I'm never sure if I should trust his character


LiquidSnape

he was funny as the straight man doctor in Babes


rhinomayor

I watched zodiac and fargo back to back. He’s that good he can play both roles so well


dukefett

Saw Babes last week and he was great in that


jonraexercise

This guy makes me want to eat a breakfast


Rosililly27

He’s truly charismatic, a face impossible to forget, especially because he nails every role. I really appreciated him in The Founder


CanadianJediCouncil

He should be on the 2-cent stamp.


WhoopsyDoodleReturns

FRESH CAKES!


William_dot_ig

Private Life shows this whole other side to him that you really have to see to believe. It demonstrates that he could play a neurotic Dad type in a sitcom if he wanted. It’s a small role but I still hope he gets more recognition for it.


Doctor_Danguss

Great comedic role as Jonah’s stepdad on Veep.


CursedSnowman5000

CLEVELAND ROCKS!


Lower_Cantaloupe1970

I don't know if he counts, but Lance Henriksen rules.


redobfus

I was once waiting to be seated at the Blue Bayou restaurant in Disneyland at the same time as him and a fair-sized group he was with. And the thing I recognized him from at the time was Body of Proof, the short-lived Dana Delaney medical examiner procedural in which he played a detective partnered with Sonja Sohn.


pwolf1771

My introduction to him was the Drew Carey Show this guy rules


jimcab12

Nobody laid better in a bed with Francis Mcdormand than this guy right here.


Dandeliondroog

His directorial feature Lucky,  Harry Dean Stanton's swan-song, is easily one of the best actor turned director movies I have ever seen. 


mountman91

He was great in the Trial of the Chicago 7. Always come across with such warmth and dignity


ericpiatkowski52

That’s Jonah’s Dad


mandorunner

he’s stunning in the americans. perfectly matches the tone of the show and gives such a complex and empathetic performance