She exploded on my radar in Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby (2004). She floored me as Hilary Swank’s mother. What a piece of work and only in a few minutes of runtime. Days of Thunder (1990), The Rocketeer (1991), Lorenzo’s Oil (1992), The Firm (1993), Nobody’s Fool (1994), Dead Man Walking (1995), Sabrina (1995), Marvin’s Room (1996), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), Twilight (1998), Practical Magic (1998), Ride with the Devil (1999), 28 Days (2000), Proof of Life (2000), The Hours (2002), The Human Stain (2003), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Orphan (2009), Secretariat (2010), August: Osage Country (2013), Cars 3 (2017). Margo is compelling. Hard or soft. What a force.
Such a force in the late 60s and 70s, he’s even a riff in The Touch of Satan (1971). Combusting instantly, Zerbe is this uncertainty. A known quantity in going anywhere. At any moment. Cool Hand Luke (1967), Will Penny (1967), The Molly Maguires (1970), The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970), They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970), The Omega Man (1971), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Papillon (1973), The Laughing Policeman (1973), The Parallax View (1974), Farewell, My Lovely (1975), Rooster Cogburn (1975), The Turning Point (1977), Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978), The First Deadly Sin (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), License to Kill (1989), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), True Crime (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), American Hustle (2013). Nice guy, bad guy, any guy, Anthony lures you in. And that is a talent.
I completely agree. His name was also mentioned by Mike in the opening credits of Riding With Death. And his death scene in License To Kill was incredibly disturbing, even for a Bond Villain .
She livened up The Americans splendidly too. She toogles between sympathy and dislike so cautiously and naturally. You hate her one moment and like her the next. Flawless.
