I'm ready to go on record, after thinking about it. William Sylvester's performance as Dr Heywood Floyd in 2001: A Space Odyssey is the greatest accomplishment in any art form, ever.
As evinced by:
AND!:
Can't recall seeing this guy in anything else. Don't care! The cold politeness with which he fends off the Russian queries, the way he talks to his daughter [and it's inherently hot that a man who's like the epitome of 47-year-oldness has a daughter who's about five, like he's been out sciencing around and sort of forgot to get married until he's found some just-now-thirty seriously gorgeous glasses-wearing wife]...just these two scenes add up to a career!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tEY0XRw_8
As evinced by:
Smyslov: Quite frankly, we have had some very reliable intelligence
reports that a quite serious epidemic has broken out at Clavius.
Something, apperently [sic], of an unknown origin. Is this,
in fact, what has happened?
A LONG, AWKWARD PAUSE
Floyd: I'm sorry, Dr. Smyslov, but I'm really not at
liberty to discuss this.
Smyslov: This epidemic could easily spread to our base, Dr.
Floyd. We should be given all the facts.
LONG PAUSE
FLOYD: Dr. Smyslov... I'm not permitted to discuss this.
AND!:
"A bush baby? Well, we'll have to see about that."
Can't recall seeing this guy in anything else. Don't care! The cold politeness with which he fends off the Russian queries, the way he talks to his daughter [and it's inherently hot that a man who's like the epitome of 47-year-oldness has a daughter who's about five, like he's been out sciencing around and sort of forgot to get married until he's found some just-now-thirty seriously gorgeous glasses-wearing wife]...just these two scenes add up to a career!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tEY0XRw_8
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