The Big Easy (1986) features some super-interesting casting: Jim Garrison - a New Orleans lawyer who (in real life) tried someone for the assassination of President Kennedy - appears as himself, playing a judge in the courtroom.
Solomon Burke, a singer of rhythm and blues and soul music in the 1960s, appears in the film.
An outstandingly quirky and textured performance is given by the actor Charles Ludlam, portraying defense lawyer Lamar Parmentel. He leaves an impression, with sugar-coated, old-fashioned Southern charm, dripping with honeyed persuasion.
I had to check, who was the actor who played the local "wise guy" who feels disrespected when brought in for questioning - "your father wouldn't have dragged me down here - He'd come to-da-house!"
It was Marc Lawrence (1910 - 2005). He was born in New York City, began acting while still in school, and at the time of filming The Big Easy, he would have been around 75 years old.
The actor lived in Palm Springs, California, from 1971 to 2005.
It was funny - looking at Wikipedia page for this actor, it offers a "Selected filmography." When they write 'selected' it means they might leave out some of the movies he was in, because they just want to give highlights of the career, right?
So - for Marc Lawrence, the Selected filmography reads as follows:
1932 If I Had a Million
1933 Gambling Ship
1933 Her First Mate
1933 Lady for a Day
1933 White Woman
1934 Straight Is the Way
1934 Death on the Diamond
1934 Million Dollar Baby
1935 G Men
1935 Go Into Your Dance
1935 Strangers All
1935 Men of the Hour
1935 The Arizonian
1935 Don't Bet on Blondes
1935 After the Dance
1935 Little Big Shot
1935 Dr. Socrates
1935 Three Kids and a Queen
1936 Road Gang
1935 Don't Gamble with Love
1936 Love on a Bet
1936 Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936 Desire
1936 Under Two Flags
1936 Counterfeit
1936 Trapped by Television
1936 The Final Hour
1936 Blackmailer
1936 The Cowboy Star
1936 Charlie Chan at the Opera
1936 Night Waitress
1937 Racketeers in Exile
1937 Motor Madness
1937 I Promise to Pay
1937 Criminals of the Air
1937 San Quentin
1937 What Price Vengeance?
1937 It Can't Last Forever
1937 A Dangerous Adventure
1937 Charlie Chan on Broadway
1937 Life Begins with Love
1937 Counsel for Crime
1937 Murder in Greenwich Village
1937 The Shadow
1938 Penitentiary
1938 Who Killed Gail Preston?
1938 Squadron of Honor
1938 Convicted
1938 I Am the Law
1938 The Spider's Web
1938 Adventure in Sahara
1938 While New York Sleeps
1938 Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1939 Homicide Bureau
1939 There's That Woman Again
1939 The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939 Sergeant Madden
1939 Romance of the Redwoods
1939 Code of the Streets
1939 Blind Alley
1939 Ex-Champ
1939 S.O.S. Tidal Wave
1939 Dust Be My Destiny
1939 Beware Spooks!
1939 The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939 Invisible Stripes
1940 Johnny Apollo
1940 Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
1940 The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940 The Golden Fleecing
1940 Brigham Young
1940 The Great Profile
1940 Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
1941 Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941 The Monster and the Girl
1941 The Man Who Lost Himself
1941 Blossoms in the Dust
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills
1941 Lady Scarface
1941 Hold That Ghost
1941 A Dangerous Game
1941 Sundown
1941 Public Enemies
1942 Nazi Agent
1942 Yokel Boy
1942 This Gun for Hire
1942 Call of the Canyon
1942 Eyes of the Underworld
1942 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1943 Calaboose
1943 Submarine Alert
1943 The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 Hit the Ice
1944 Tampico
1944 Rainbow Island
1944 The Princess and the Pirate
1945 Dillinger
1945 Flame of Barbary Coast
1945 Don't Fence Me In
1945 Club Havana
1945 Life with Blondie
1946 Blonde Alibi
1946 The Virginian
1946 Inside Job
1946 Cloak and Dagger
1947 Yankee Fakir
1947 Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947 Unconquered
1947 Captain from Castile
1948 I Walk Alone
1948 Key Largo
1948 Out of the Storm
1949 Jigsaw
1949 Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949 Tough Assignment
1950 Black Hand
1950 The Asphalt Jungle
1950 The Desert Hawk
1950 Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
1951 Hurricane Island
1951 My Favorite Spy
1952 Torment of the Past
1952 La Tratta delle bianche
1952 I tre corsari
1952 Brothers of Italy
1953 Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
1953 Noi peccatori
1953 Legione straniera
1953 Funniest Show on Earth
1954 Vacation with a Gangster
1954 Tragic Ballad
1955 New Moon
1955 Suor Maria
1955 La catena dell'odio
1956 Helen of Troy
1957 Kill Her Gently
1963 Johnny Cool
1966 Due mafiosi contro Al Capone
1966 Johnny Tiger
1966 Savage Pampas
1966 7 monaci d'oro
1967 Du mou dans la gachette
1967 Custer of the West
1968 Kong Island
1969 Krakatoa, East of Java
1970 The Kremlin Letter
1970 Dream No Evil
1971 Diamonds Are Forever
1972 In Pursuit of Treasure
1972 Daddy's Deadly Darling
1973 Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun
1976 Marathon Man
1977 A Piece of the Action
1978 Foul Play
1978 Goin' Coconuts
1979 Hot Stuff
1979 Swap Meet
1980 Super Fuzz
1980 Cataclysm
1982 Cat and Dog
1985 Night Train to Terror
1986 The Big Easy
1989 Blood Red
1992 Ruby
1992 Newsies
1995 Four Rooms
1996 From Dusk till Dawn
1996 Gotti
1999 End of Days
2001 The Shipping News
2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action
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(picking self up off the floor) - This is the "Selected" filmography???!!!
Just the "highlights"??!
LOL How many more movies could he have acted in?
I wonder if he set some kind of record.
This is crazy.
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in The Big Easy
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