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Zeljko Ivanek

post #1 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:16am
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Has this man ever played a good guy? I think not.
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post #2 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:21am
If you need to cast a guy to play a sleazy lawyer, this is your man.

Oh, and he doesn't really play a bad guy in The Wire, even though he is a lawyer. But that show is so full of gray it's hard to tell who is good and who is bad.
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post #3 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:25am
I'm going to miss him on DAMAGES this year. He was one of the best things about season one.

Also, I just discovered that he played the primary villain in the first season of 24, a show I didn't start watching until season two. I think I really need to Netflix those first 24 hours now.
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post #4 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:25am
He's not in The Wire. He was in Homicide and Ed Danvers wasn't a bad guy.

That guy also had a bit part in Life Free and Die Hard. He was also in John Adams. Not to mention a shit ton of other things.

And I even ran into this guy when I saw Indy 4 who apparently knew the other guys I was hanging around with (At the time, that hang out was pretty much a one shot deal *shrug*). He was also at the Arclight with his wife.
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post #5 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:27am
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He's not in The Wire. He was in Homicide and Ed Danvers wasn't a bad guy.
Wait, yes he is. He's the prosecutor in Season One and Two. Dammit, am I losing my mind?

Someone please confirm this before I go through the eps. in a hunt for a screencap.
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post #6 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:28am
He was kind of a good guy in LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, not a productive good guy but he was on the good side.

Don't know if he could be called good or bad in IN BRUGES. Wasn't American, I know that much.
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post #7 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:35am
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Wait, yes he is. He's the prosecutor in Season One and Two. Dammit, am I losing my mind?

Someone please confirm this before I go through the eps. in a hunt for a screencap.
He's not in The Wire. The prosecutor in The Wire was Rhonda Peralman. The only cameo was the guy who played the QRT Lt. in Homicide (Who was the real Homicide Lieutenant in the book) was another prosecutor who (SPOILERS) was found leaking information.

And the guy who played Det. Gharty was Judge Phelen.
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post #8 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:36am
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He's not in The Wire. The prosecutor in The Wire was Rhonda Peralman. The only cameo was the guy who played the QRT Lt. in Homicide (Who was the real Homicide Lieutenant in the book) was another prosecutor who (SPOILERS) was found leaking information.

And the guy who played Det. Gharty was Judge Phelen.
I'm hunting this down to prove you (or myself) wrong, Ed. He was Pearlman's boss in the first two seasons.
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post #9 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:41am
He was Gary Oldman's nurse in Hannibal. He ultimately fed Oldman to the pigs. Neutral?

He's due for third lead on a failed SciFi show by now. Or the Vulture in Spiderman 4.
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post #10 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:42am
Hold on, he dumped Mason Verger into that pit with the bores.

Certified good guy!

Edit: Dammit Rudd!
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post #11 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:46am
Actually, I'd be surprised if that Emmy doesn't get him a villain role, or possibly a bureaucrat, in a big ole Hollywood franchise. He should be approaching Jonathan Pryce status.

Incidentally, turns out Hannibal aged into a good movie.
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post #12 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:46am
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Or the Vulture in Spiderman 4.
Only if Tom Noonan turns down the role first.

Wasn't Ivanek a minor good guy in Black Hawk Down?
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post #13 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:48am
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Wasn't Ivanek a minor good guy in Black Hawk Down?
Yes. He was in the helicopter that was overseeing the battle.
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post #14 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:50am
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Incidentally, turns out Hannibal aged into a good movie.
Aged? From day one, baby. Day one!
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post #15 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:54am
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Aged? From day one, baby. Day one!
I've always loved Hannibal, way more than SOTL.

Ok, I can't find his character in The Wire. But I could swear he showed up at least twice in the show, maybe only as a cameo. I find it hard to believe that he was in Homicide, John Adams, and True Blood, yet failed to make an appearance in The Wire.

Unless my mind is mixing a scene from Homicide and The Wire together.
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post #16 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:55am
Maybe you're thinking of Oz? He was on that a fair amount of times.
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post #17 of 24
11/19/08 at 2:59am
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Maybe you're thinking of Oz? He was on that a fair amount of times.
Damn, that's right, he was in that too. I think he's just one of those guys that shows up in a lot of the stuff I watch so often, that I'm starting to mix up his roles.

It's bugging the shit out of me, though.
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post #18 of 24
11/19/08 at 7:00am
IMDB is your friend...
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post #19 of 24
11/19/08 at 9:43am
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Don't know if he could be called good or bad in IN BRUGES. Wasn't American, I know that much.
He didnt kill John Lennon.

Also, in John Adams he didnt really play a bad guy. Just someone who didnt agree with John Adams.
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post #20 of 24
11/19/08 at 10:16am
He played a tragic retarded antihero in a season one X-Files ep. First place I saw him, actually.
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post #21 of 24
11/19/08 at 10:31am
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He played a tragic retarded antihero in a season one X-Files ep. First place I saw him, actually.
Me too. Thats always what I remember him for, actually.

Good episode.
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post #22 of 24
11/19/08 at 11:50am
He was not in the Wire. He was Govenor Devlin in Oz. Thats who I always remember him as. You might be confused because of all the Oz vets who showed up in the Wire.
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post #23 of 24
11/19/08 at 12:01pm
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He was not in the Wire. He was Govenor Devlin in Oz. Thats who I always remember him as. You might be confused because of all the Oz vets who showed up in the Wire.
Yea, I think its a combination of that and Homicide. Both shows had a ton of actors who later showed up in The Wire.
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post #24 of 24
11/19/08 at 12:15pm
Thank you Frank. Glad to see someone else knows what I was talking about.

Also, Ivanek showed up in an episode of Cold Case which for some reason had people from The Shield on various episodes.
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