The Pantheon™ of Great Actors

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In a thread over at Slev's house I mentioned that Alex Rocco is in my Pantheon of Awesome Actors™ for being both Moe Green in "The Godfather" and Roger Myers Jr., maker of "Itchy and Scratchy," on "The Simpsons." I decided to expand the Pantheon™ a bit.

The logic of this list must be respected; it might not make sense to you, and if it doesn't, then go make your own Pantheon™. This one's mine, and I'm going to break it out by categories in separate posts.

First up:

Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
These are actors who have done something worthy of being Pantheoned™ by virtue of being great in more than one movie, TV show, etc., or just something else to enhance their Pantheonicity™ ... and I'm trying to avoid the big names like DeNiro, Pacino, etc., because you can just assume they're there already. And I'm allowing people to enter the Pantheon™ even if their multiple works come from the same director -- for example, I've got John C. Reilly for his work in "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia," even though both are from the same director.

Alex Rocco (Moe Green, "The Godfather" and Roger Myers Jr., "The Simpsons")

Paul Sorvino (Paul Cicero, "Goodfellas" and Mira Sorvino)

Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian, "The Empire Strikes Back," and himself on "Scrubs")

Angelica Huston (Etheline Tenenbaum, "The Royal Tenenbaums" and Marcia Fox, "Manhattan Murder Mystery)

John C. Reilly ("Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia" -- two of my favorite movies, BTW)

Harrison Ford (Han Solo and Indiana Jones)

Clint Howard (Ron's little brother has been in every other movie since 1978)

John Goodman ("Raising Arizona" and "The Big Lebowski")

Craig T. Nelson (for the first two years of "Coach" as well as "The Incredibles")

Holly Hunter ("Raising Arizona" and "The Incredibles" as well)

Bill Murray (for his SNL skit where he's the lounge singer in the shower, and Mr. Bloom in "Rushmore")

Philip Baker Hall (Jimmy Gator in "Magnolia" and "Mr. Bookman" from "Seinfeld" -- every librarian, in his deepest heart of hearts, wants to be like Mr. Bookman)

Conan O'Brien (Writers Division) ... the man who brought you "Homer Goes to College" and The Masturbating Bear. Such range!

There will be more to come.