Last Thursday, the cast of Only Fools and Horses were saddened to learn of the death of Roger Lloyd Pack, who played dopey road-sweeper Trigger in the hit comedy series.
I loved him in his corn-fed, handsome youth, playing the dopey junior bartender in Cheers, and I adore him in his dented, haunted middle age, lost in the bayou on True Detective.
There was also Jim Carrey, in "The Majestic," playing a dopey screenwriter who gets bonked on the head, suffers amnesia, and winds up in a small town on the California coast; and Sean Penn, in "I Am Sam," as a retarded man who wants to keep custody of his daughter.
The juvenile Kev, played to dopey perfection by Mr. Fleischer, alternately gripes and makes absurd boasts about the prowess he is yet to prove.
"I call this 'palatial kitsch,' " Liberace declares as he shows off his home to Scott, a blond hunk played with dopey sweetness by Matt Damon.
This latest production of Garson Kanin's comedy about a brutish tycoon, his girlfriend and the tutor entrusted with her education drew praise for the performance of its star Nina Arianda, who plays the dopey girlfriend, Billie.
The romantic chemistry is so potent between Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo that I am tempted this morning to sit down to another viewing of their 2006 spy-spoof comedy OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies, in which Dujardin plays a dopey agent opposite Bejo's activist Larmina El Akmar Betouche.
I'm honestly excited for viewers to experience Parker Young's performance as Randy Hill, who is the big, beating heart of "Enlisted" (though Young's comedy chops will not be a revelation to anyone who saw him play a dopey, hilariously sincere jock on "Suburgatory").
Hence playing the part of Dopey in a sadly prophetic way.
Ian August and Tamari Dunbar, both non-Equity cast members, play a delightfully dopey Goat and a vivacious, if shallow, Rosamund.
