BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters

Subject: RE: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 10:21 AM

Acme... yes, Frank Burns.. (Larry Linville). To be fair, he decided himself that the Burns character was no longer working and opted out.

I don't know is anyone else here was caught up in the BritCom "Last of the Summer Wine", but I tolerated most of the odd characters until they got to the last couple of seasons and introduced Luther "Hobbo" Hobdyke, played by Russ Abbot. He made Frank Burns look good.
   There was also Babs Avery(Helen Turaya) who was beyond gross and lasted only one season.

   In another BritCom, "Still Open All Hours", a revival of a successful program from years before, they introduced several amazingly bad characters, of which the worst was "Gastric" (Tim Healy)

Subject: RE: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 09:19 AM

The guy who wouldn't believe that Data could captain a starship. I can't stand him in anything else. Ditto for the guy who collected Data. Also, not irritation, but Christopher Walken in Scarecrow scared the shit out of me, and to this day I can't stand him in anything because of harkening back to Scarecrow.
Dolores Umbridge got her comeuppance which made it OK, after, to have been so irritated by her.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: BobL
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 07:25 AM

Tom Felton, on the bonus DVD, had some interesting things to say about "his character". Such as, his personal failings became pretty well understandable once you'd encountered Lucius.

Now Dolores Umbridge...

Subject: RE: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 04:28 AM

Gosford Park...?

Subject: RE: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: Senoufou
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 04:20 AM

I loathed that Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter (played by Tom Felton) and his thuggy mates Gregory Goyle (Josh Herdman) and Vincent Crabbe (Jamie Waylett) I especially hated that nasty smirk they all had.

These types of bullies are to be found in every school. They make my blood boil!

Subject: RE: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: leeneia
Date: 07 Apr 18 - 05:27 PM

Whoever played Elsie, the head housemaid in

uh oh

What was the name of that movie called Something Park that was set in England in the 1930's and they killed the evil duke/mill owner? What's-her-name, who never smiles, played the duke's sister.

Anyway, the actress who played the head housemaid drove me up the wall with her incessant mumbling.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: frogprince
Date: 07 Apr 18 - 05:10 PM

I don't remember what role names Gilbert Gottfried may have appeared under, but under his own name or any other, he's the incarnation of fingernails scraping on the blackboard of life.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Apr 18 - 01:29 AM

The letters b, d, p, and q are very irritating screen characters. They're all the same, but in different directions.
The letters a and z are far more pleasing to the eye....

Subject: RE: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 18 - 09:45 PM

I well remember: Never Fear, Smith Is Here.
Impoverished Russian parents? He was in good company.

When they did the new flashy/angsty
Battlestar Galactica,
I thought Dr. Gaius Baltar was a right cockroach
and nothing could kill him
no matter how often he got stomped on.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Apr 18 - 06:46 PM

They were doing their jobs well if you've harbored such resentment!

Frank Burns on M*A*S*H comes to mind. :)

Subject: BS: Most Irritating Screen Characters
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Apr 18 - 06:28 PM

I don't think anyone has posted this yet, if they have, then this is a de-facto restatement of deeply held beliefs.

I have in mind the most irritating characters in television and movie history. This is a personal subject, for I have harbored death wishes for various characters without as a young person being aware that the actors are just doing their jobs.

I ask only that you take the trouble to find the name of the actor playing the detestable character (when such exists) when you post. This is open to both television shows (especially television shows with recurring characters) and of course especially noisome movie characters.

I'm gonna start with my pet favorite: Dr. Zachary Smith from the original "Lost In Space" played by Jonathan Harris. I've just for the first time researched him and found that he was born Jonathan Charasuchin in the Bronx to impoverished Russian parents. He originally had a Bronx accent.

If this thread is original enough and goes anywhere I'll have more to add.