Who was the buffed out, mega-mean, scarfaced military guy in Avatar.
I just watched Manhunter recently and wanted to know more about the the actor. He's in Public Enemies as well but plays a similar hard man.
I'm sure nobody would have caught this unless they researched it or followed his career.
Stephen Lang.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002332/
If you get the chance, check him out in Crime Story.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090410/combined
Incredible performance. Well, pretty much incredible performances all around on that show.
And you'll also notice there's another couple of actors in Crime Story that are also featured in Manhunter.
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Stephen Lang is a very talented and underrated actor. One of his best roles was in Last Exit to Brooklyn, where he plays a wannabe local union boss and closeted homosexual.
He was also great as General George Pickett in Gettysburg.
I saw him in person at a film course I was taking in 2010 for an indie film he was in called "White Irish Drinkers" and could not believe he was "Freddy Lounds" (one of my favorite scummiest characters ever) He was a doll and a great interview. He is very underrated, but actually works quite a lot.
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Well of course most people won't catch on - he's not a high-profile actor. At most, people know him as that guy from Avatar or one of his other characters (like in Gettysburg or Tombstone); he's not famous in name recognition alone.
But even if he was, the transformation he's undergone from when he was in his 30's to now is quite impressive and would probably still surprise people. In Manhunter, he was young, fuller-faced, heavier, and had a unruly head of reddish-brown hair. In Avatar (and nowadays), he is old, leaner, more athletic, hallowed-faced, gristled and has shorter haircut with silver/grey hair. He doesn't look young for his age, but he certainly made the best of old age and proved you can still transform your physique later in life.