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  • The Salton Sea on Random Vincent D'Onofrio Is Awesome In Everything - Even If You Don't Recognize Him Half Tim

    (#16) The Salton Sea

    • Val Kilmer, Meat Loaf, Danny Trejo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard, R. Lee Ermey, Luis Guzmán, Chandra West, Shalom Harlow, B. D. Wong, Shirley Knight, Anthony LaPaglia, Adam Goldberg, Deborah Kara Unger, Doug Hutchison, Glenn Plummer

    Roger Ebert wrote that Vincent D'Onofrio gives "a great weird demented giggle of a performance" in 2002's The Salton Sea. That's about as accurate a description as you could get. The actor is cast as Holland Dale "Pooh-Bear" Monty, a dealer who lost his nose from too much substance use and now wears an absurd fake one that makes him resemble Winnie the Pooh. He becomes a nemesis to former trumpet player turned "tweaker" Danny Parker (Val Kilmer). 

    D'Onofrio finds an unusual way to portray an unusual character. Aside from his incredibly odd appearance, Monty has a backwoods Southern drawl that belies the viciousness within his heart. The result is a character that you don't know whether to laugh at or fear - so you do both.

  • Happy Accidents on Random Vincent D'Onofrio Is Awesome In Everything - Even If You Don't Recognize Him Half Tim

    (#17) Happy Accidents

    • Marisa Tomei, Anthony Michael Hall, Vincent D'Onofrio, H. Jon Benjamin, Cara Buono, Holland Taylor, Tovah Feldshuh, Tamara Jenkins, Richard Portnow, Mike McGlone, Larry Fessenden, José Zúñiga, Dan Frazer, Nadia Dajani, Stephen Gevedon, Sean Gullette, Lianna Pai, Sanjay Chandani, Bronson Dudley

    Happy Accidents is an anomaly in D'Onofrio's career in that he's cast as a romantic lead. His character, Sam Deed, meets and falls in love with Ruby Weaver (Marisa Tomei). The hitch is that he claims to be a time traveler from the year 2470, and she really doesn't believe that. 

    Making such a kooky premise work requires one very important thing: sincerity. That's exactly what D'Onofrio brings to the role. Roger Ebert noted that the actor "plays the character persuasively and realistically; if a man came back from [2470], he might act something like this." Such sincerity makes the romance engaging, while also showing another facet of D'Onofrio's talent.

  • Full Metal Jacket on Random Vincent D'Onofrio Is Awesome In Everything - Even If You Don't Recognize Him Half Tim

    (#1) Full Metal Jacket

    • Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Adam Baldwin, Matthew Modine, Dorian Harewood, Philip Bailey, Arliss Howard, Papillon Soo Soo, John Terry, Bruce Boa, Ed O'Ross, Sal Lopez, Tim Colceri, David Palffy, Robert Nichols, Vivian Kubrick, Daniel Landin, Kevyn Major Howard, Steve Hudson, Herbert Norville, Marcus D'Amico, Kieron Jecchinis, Chris Maybach, Michael Anthony Williams, Jon Stafford, Ian Tyler, Kirk Taylor, Keith Hodiak, Gary Landon Mills, David George, Peter Edmund, John Davis, Tony Hayes, Dan Weldon, John Morrison, John Ward, Nguyen Hue Phong, Duc Hu Ta, David Perry, Costas Dino Chimona, Nigel Goulding, Bob Eric Hart, Tony Howard, Leanne Hong, Gil Kopel, Ngoc Le, Tan Hung Francione, Steve Boucher, John Curtis, David Milner, Duncan Henry, Kenneth Head, Barry Hayes, Tony Smith, Derek Hart, Al Simpson, Dennis Wells, Louis Barlotti, Robin Hedgeland, Trevor Hogan, John Ness, Luke Hogdal, Nigel Lough, Laurie Gomes, Mike Turjansky, Adrian Bush, Gary Meyer, Del Anderson, Chris Cornibert, Hadrian Follett, Martin Adams, John Beddows, Anthony Styliano, Roger Smith, Brett Middleton, Steve Hands, Frank McCardle, Bill Thompson, Brian Goodwin, Sean Frank, Terry Lowe, Phil Elmer, Gary Cheeseman, Danny Cornibert, Sean Lamming, Liam Hogan, John Wilson, Patrick Benn, Peter Rommely, Tony Carey, Russell Slater, Wayne Clark, Tony Hague, Pat Sands, Peter Merrill, Kevin Day, Harry Davies, Chris Harris, John Wonderling, Tony Leete, Jim Sarup, Tony Minmagh, Sean Minmagh, Kevin Albridge, Gordon Duncan, Colin Elvis, Russell Mott, Gary Smith

    To portray the role of Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence, D'Onofrio gained 70 pounds. That weight gain literally transformed him. From there, he proceeded to turn the overweight, occasionally clueless solider into a fully formed character.

    In some ways, the actor had to transform himself twice. The physical transformation is one way. The other is in how he convincingly turns Pyle from a food-hoarding goofball into an angry, violent man who executes his hostile drill sergeant and then himself. It's a big personality shift, yet D'Onofrio makes the notion that Pyle has "snapped" as credible as it is haunting.

  • The Cell on Random Vincent D'Onofrio Is Awesome In Everything - Even If You Don't Recognize Him Half Tim

    (#7) The Cell

    • Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard, Dean Norris, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Dylan Baker, Catherine Sutherland, Musetta Vander, James Gammon, Patrick Bauchau, Jake Weber, Tara Subkoff, Gerry Becker, Jack Conley, John Cothran, Jr., Nicholas Cascone, Lauri Johnson, Kamar de los Reyes, Colton James

    Movies about serial killers were all the rage after Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs and David Fincher's Seven. Truth be told, a lot of them were kind of cheesy, with generic, unrealistic villains. In 2000's The Cell, D'Onofrio plays a maniac with a twisted psychology that feels legit - and he does so within a completely fantastical story.

    He portrays Carl Rudolph Stargher, a lunatic with a penchant for drowning his targets. When he falls into a coma, psychologist Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) uses a special device to enter his mind and find clues about his latest mark's whereabouts. What she encounters is phantasmagoric, to say the least. D'Onofrio is hidden behind creepy makeup, outlandish costumes, and sometimes even horns on his head. Nevertheless, he potently suggests the dangerous psychopathy that fuels Stargher. He's not just playing a character, he's playing derangement itself.

  • 'Run All Night' - As A Grizzled NYC Detective on Random Vincent D'Onofrio Is Awesome In Everything - Even If You Don't Recognize Him Half Tim

    (#13) 'Run All Night' - As A Grizzled NYC Detective

    Detective John Harding has been trying to put away Irish gangster Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson) for years. There's an old saying about how every cop is haunted by that one guy they weren't able to collar. D'Onofrio brings forth that notion in Run All Night

    Even though the movie is Conlon's story, D'Onofrio suggests an entirely different, but connected story - one about a detective determined not to let a bad guy escape his clutches. A potent scene early on finds Harding confronting Conlon in a diner, making very pointed appeals to whatever conscience the guy may have left. The actor is so good at depicting Harding's relentless drive that, at times, you kind of wish the movie would be more about him.

  • The Magnificent Seven on Random Vincent D'Onofrio Is Awesome In Everything - Even If You Don't Recognize Him Half Tim

    (#5) The Magnificent Seven

    • Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio

    The 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven gives D'Onofrio a challenging task. His character is the moral center of the story. Jack Horne is a devoutly religious man who joins a posse looking to nab a ruthless industrialist who torched a church - an act that claimed numerous lives. There's a lot of mayhem in the film, but Horne is the guy who's constantly weighing the need to be righteous with the need to prevent the villain from further harming anyone else. D'Onofrio balances those traits perfectly.

    His bearded mountain man persona in the film, which renders him borderline unrecognizable, was cleverly described by MTV's Amy Nicholson as a "lumbering beast-man who’s strong enough to tackle a horse but talks with the weak warble of an old man demanding more butterscotch."

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Vincent D'Onofrio is known as an American actor, producer, and director, he officially entered the movie industry and started his acting career with the Broadway stage play Open Admissions in 1984. Then appeared in many successful movies, if you are a big movie fan, you've undoubtedly seen a bunch of Vincent D'Onofrio movies. Many times he may not act in his original face, do you know the alien in Men in Black is him?

The generator collected 18 best Vincent D'Onofrio movies, you could find more information about his movies here. He is awesome in everything, even if people don't recognize him. Whether it is a supporting role or a lead role, he can always impress the audience.

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