In every film or TV show I've seen him, he's always played a very serious character, very hard nosed and angry (with the possible exception of his portrayal of the pilot in "Stephen King's The Langoliers").
Don't get me wrong, he's an extremely talented actor, ut a comedy? I just can't imagine it!
Is your point so weak that you must have the last word?
David Morse has definitely made a career out of playing tortured and angry characters but I think he's a talented enough actor that he could handle comedy too, but you're right, looking at his resume, it is hard to imagine him in a comedy.
sharei saw him interviewed on an old show of "the view", he definitely has some comic timing. he could at least play the straight man. George B was a comedy/drama, i think.
shareI saw Sean Penn speak at American Cinematheque in LA about the movies he directed one of which is the amazing "Indian Runner" where Viggo and David Morse play brothers, one a cop and the other a man with severe emotional problems.
David Morse is an actor's actor. It's a shame the casting people are so narrow-minded they won't let him stretch out and do some comedy. It's a common problem...typecasting.
P.S. Sean also complained bitterly about how he cannot get people to finance his directing projects because he'd really like to direct more movies.
I saw him last year on Broadway in The Seafarer, and he can definitely do comedy! It's not exactly a comedy play, but its got this excellent morbid Irish humour and ,Morse was spot-on -- he played a rather pathetic guy trying to stop drinking and keep the devil from taking his soul, and he was brilliant and funny and tragic, very different from what we usually see on tv or movies.
shareHe doesn't have the range
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