Bluto at Large! Hugh Laurie!

[furtech]

If you can believe it, the above is the "official police sketch" of someone who has been assaulting joggers in Corona. Are they serious?

I see a life of miserable mistaken identity in a certain villain's future...

The full-size picture looks even worse (couldn't find it online)-- the beard and eyebrows look like they were scribbled on with a sharpie.

While making a failed effort to organize my files, "Stewart Little 2" was just on. Right off, I saw a neat falcon villain for Roz! Nicely done! A bazillion times better than the raptor villain in "Valiant"!

The surprising thing was a familiar voice, even if I didn't recognize the face: Hugh Laurie plays the dad! That reminded me of all the diverse roles he's played-- from the anti-hero "House" to the "everydad" in "Stuart Little" to a henchman in "101 Dalmations" (live action) to a flaming Prince Regent ("Blackadder the Third) to an animated bug and Wooster ("Jeeves and Wooster"). I can't wait to see him play a nasty villain sometime.


Laurie is fast becoming my favorite character actor, right after Peter Falk, in terms of fun and versatility. An excellent actor and a man of a thousand faces (and voices)!

Comments

[spunkywulf.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are ALL Hugh Laurie? Damn, that's a good testament to versatility. Also, POOR BLUTO NOOOOOOOOO

[cooner.livejournal.com]

Hugh Laurie is, truly, the man.

While I was home for a few weeks this fall I got my mother hooked on House (and she subsequently got my father hooked). She now claims Hugh Laurie as her favorite actor. ^.^

(I should add that Stephen Fry is the man too ... err ... the other man? ... I do hope he gets a chance to do an appearance on House before the series wraps up!)

[desertcoyote.livejournal.com]

Laurie is all kinds of awesome. I've loved him since BlackAdder, and enjoyed him in Stuart Little (which does make it really funny to watch House).

Oh noes! Bluto! :O

[mognetcentral.livejournal.com]

I say, Lance, you picked the most American Jeeves and Wooster photo available! Bertie is so much more English-looking for most of the series...

http://www.hatsharpening.com/j&w/photos.php

As a fan of musicals, I think you'd like this bit (Minnie the Moocher)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwgS1ctxglw

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Whoa, he was in Jeeves and Wooster? I have GOT to rent these.

[fatkraken.livejournal.com]

have you ever checked out "A Bit of Fry and Laurie"? Sketch show with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, ran for a few series. Quite posh but pretty funny, plus I believe you get to see both of them in drag at least once.

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

Laurie in Stewart Little is really creepy in that picture due to the child hand floating on his chest.

[toraneko.livejournal.com]

I was too lazy to turn off the TV the other night and sat through a epidode of Friends. It was quite shock to realize that the 'man on the plane" giving Rachael hell about flying to London to break up Ross and Emiliy's wedding was indeed, Hugh Laurie. with his own accent, praise be.

Made being lazy worth it!

[albrecht-fur.livejournal.com]

I think I first ran across him in Blackadder as a kid, and loved his portrayal of the Prince Regent, it's the kind of character that you enjoy more as you get older. But I was very surprised to see how well he's played House.
A versatile man indeed :)