RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr.

[garrow]

Big loss

Isiah Whitlock Jr., ‘The Wire’ and ‘Veep’ Actor, Dies at 71

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Sheeeee-ittt.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Just coming here to post this.
He owned that role

 

[Webster]

 

[DanOregon]

First time I saw him on Law and Order he played a creepy security guard. Really an amazing actor. Could you say someone "slithered" into roles? He did.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Also had a brief role in Goodfellas as the doctor who gives a drugged out and paranoid Henry some pills. RIP

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Major Crimes? Sheeeeet.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Also had a brief role in Goodfellas as the doctor who gives a drugged out and paranoid Henry some pills. RIP

“Helicopters? Shhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-it.”

 

[mpcincal]

Whitlock also co-starred in an overlooked movie called "Cedar Rapids," staring Ed Helms as a sheltered insurance agent who leaves his small Wisconsin hometown for the first time for a company convention in, yes, Cedar Rapids. Whitlock played one of the other agents the Helms character befriends (along with John C. Reilly and Anne Heche). Whitlock played a very friendly, amicable sort named Ron Wilkes who's a fan of the TV show -- wait for it -- "The Wire." They have a scene where he impersonates Omar Little to get our group out of a little pickle with some local brutes. It kind of amusing seeing them do all this meta stuff with Wilkes and Whitlock's more well-known series.

 

[Dog8Cats]

Honestly, was just thinking about Clay Davis this morning while I was lying in bed.

Everything I recall seeing him play, he was a creep. In a "Law & Order" episode, I believe he was a Bible-toting child killer.

 

[DanOregon]

Yeah, the security guard. L and O was so good back in the day when it first started. I remember seeing Phillip Seymour Hoffman for the first time playing a doofus. But in the whitlock ep in question, Briscoe and Logan are interviewing everyone who may have seen the kid and Whitlock was just one of many who said "yeah, I saw him, then he went that way" kind of thing...and then on to the next person - then they end up circling back to Whitlock's character and he just drops a bomb on the detectives - "Well, I had to kill them, they were looking at dirty magazines" or something like that.... I wish I could find the clip.