Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1958: Results

5. Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula - Lee is menacing with his vicious depiction of Dracula, but the film barely gives him anything to do. 

Best Scene: Dracula attacks.

4. Robert Donat in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness- The part is ripe for embarrassment but Donat avoids it by giving a likable and honest performance that avoids the pitfalls of such a part. 

Best Scene: The Mandarin's message to his people as the Japanese invade.

3. Richard Attenborough in Dunkirk- The film limits him too much but Attenborough still shines by giving humanity to the character of a man who profits from a war he does not support.

Best Scene: Holden helps his wife test out the infant gas mask.

2. Burl Ives in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Ives is fantastic as Big Daddy bringing the larger than life presence needed for such a character, but along with the genuine depth needed.

Best Scene: Big Daddy recounts the death of his own father.

1. Orson Welles in Touch of Evil - Good Predictions Kooo160, Mark, Michael Patison, RatedRStar, and Michael McCarthy. Technically I should give this to Ives if I was doing on who had the best year overall, and I also should do it if I rated it by Humphrey Bogart's measurement of acting which is rating two actors in the same role. Well Welles played a rip off of Big Daddy in a Long Hot Summer, and Ives wipes the floor with Welles if you compare those performances. I only go by the individual performances themselves though, and although it is close, the supporting performance that left the greatest impact on me was Welles's portrayal of Hank Quinlan. It's a great depiction of dirty cop, not just because he brings the menace and the decay of such a character, but also because he turns it into a tragic portrait of a potentially great man who has lost his way.

Best Scene: Quinlan visits Tanya

Overall Rank:

1. Orson Welles in Touch of Evil
2. Burl Ives in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
3. Burl Ives in The Big Country
4. Anthony Quayle in Ice Cold in Alex
5. Harry Andrews in Ice Cold in Alex
6. Gunnar Björnstrand in The Magician 
7. Richard Attenborough in Dunkirk
8. Leslie French in Orders to Kill
9. Lee J. Cobb in The Brothers Karamazov
10. Gig Young in Teacher's Pet
11. Richard Attenborough in The Man Upstairs
12. Tulsi Lahiri in Jalsaghar
13. Michel Simon in It Happened in Broad Daylight
14. Philip Pine in Murder by Contract
15. Herschel Bernardi in Murder By Contract
16. Ganjirō Nakamura in Summer Clouds
17. Trevor Howard in The Key
18. Gérard Séty in Lovers of Montparnasse
19. Tadeusz Fijewski in The Noose
    
20. Myron McCormack in No Time For Sergeants
21. Eddie Albert in Orders to Kill
22. Lee Van Cleef in The Bravados
23. Ernest Borgnine in The Vikings
24. Stephen Boyd in The Bravados
25. Lino Ventura in Lovers of Montparnasse
26. Walter Matthau in King Creole
27. Erich Maria Remarque in A Time to Love and A Time to Die
28. Robert Donat in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
29. Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula
30. Klaus Kinski in A Time to Love and A Time To Die
31. Ray Walston in Damn Yankees
32. James Robertson Justice in Orders to Kill
33. Joseph Calleia in Touch of Evil
34. Lon Chaney Jr. in The Defiant Ones
35. John Dehner in Man of the West
36. Maximilian Schell in The Long Lions
37. Murray Hamilton in No Time For Sergeants
38. Robert Ryan in Lonelyhearts
39. Dennis Weaver in Touch of Evil
40. Leslie Nielsen in The Sheepman
41. Thayer David in A Time to Love and a Time to Die
42. Chishū Ryū in Equinox Flower
43. Kieron Moore in The Key
44. Richard Attenborough in Sea of Sand
45. Gert Frobe in It Happened in Broad Daylight
46. Robert Keith in The Lineup
47. Harry Dean Stanton in The Proud Rebel
48. Jean Desailly in Maigret Sets a Trap
49. Paul Scofield in Carve Her Name With Pride
50. Bengt Ekerot in The Magician
51. Susumu Fujita in The Hidden Fortress
52. Dean Jagger in The Proud Rebel
53. Peter Sellers in Tom Thumb
54. Terry Thomas in Tom Thumb
55. Torin Thatcher in 7th Voyage of Sinbad
56. Adam Pawlikowski in Ashes and Diamonds
57. Ernest Thesiger in The Horse's Mouth
58. Vic Morrow in King Creole
59. Keenan Wynn in A Time to Love and a Time to Die
60. Arthur O'Connell in Man of the West
61. Ray Walston in South Pacific
62. Akim Tamiroff in Touch of Evil
63. Alan Young in Tom Thumb
64. David Ladd in The Proud Rebel
65. Richard Basehart in The Brothers Karamazov
66. Akim Tamiroff in Me and the Colonel
67. Kali Sarkar in Jalsagar
68. Henry Silva in The Bravados
69. Bernard Miles in Tom Thumb
70. Jack Warner in Carve Her Name With Pride
71. Jack Lord in Man of the West
72. Albert Salmi in The Bravados
73. Ernie Kovacs in Bell Book and Candle
74. Valetin de Vargas in Touch of Evil
75. Richard Jaeckel in The Lineup
76. Jack Lemmon in Bell Book and Candle
77. Royal Dano in Man of the West
78. Tom Helmore in Vertigo
79. Mike Morgan in The Horse's Mouth
80. Robert Shafer in Damn Yankees
81. Chuck Connors in The Big Country
82. Takashi Shimura in The Hidden Fortress
83. Lars Ekborg in The Magician
84. Max von Sydow in The Brink of Life
85. Vincent Price in The Fly
86. Cecil Kellaway in The Proud Rebel
87. Murray Hamilton in Houseboat
88. Herbert Marshall in The Fly
89. Nick Adams in No Time For Sergeants
90. Dan O'Herilhy in Home Before Dark
91. Lino Ventura in Elevator to the Gallows
92. Theodore Bikel in The Defiant Ones
93. Don Rickles in Run Silent Run Deep
94. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in Home Before Dark
95. Rod Taylor in Separate Tables
96. John Carradine in The Last Hurrah
97. Jack Warden in Run Silent Run Deep
98. James Donald in The Vikings
99. Orson Welles in The Long, Hot Summer
100. Albert Salmi in The Brothers Karamazov
101. Michael Gough in The Horse's Mouth
102. Charlton Heston in The Big Country
103. Basil Rathbone in The Last Hurrah
104. Michael Gough in Horror of Dracula
105. Pat O'Brien in The Last Hurrah
106. Stephen Chase in The Blob
107. Brad Dexter in Run Silent Run Deep
108. Robert Fields in The Blob
109. Lee Van Cleef in The Long Lions
110. Dean Martin in Some Came Running
111. John Benson in The Blob
112. Jack Carson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
113. John Van Eyssen in Horror of Dracula
114. Nick Adams in Teacher's Pet
115. Ray Collins in Touch of Evil
116. James Bonnet in The Blob
117. Theodore Bikel in I Want to Live!
118. Arthur Kennedy in Some Came Running 
119. Earl Rowe in The Blob
120. Maurice Chevalier in Gigi
121. Jeffrey Hunter in The Last Hurrah
122. Georges Poujouly in Elevators to the Gallows
123. Charles McGraw in The Defiant Ones
124. Harry Guardino in Houseboat
125. Alfonso Bedoya in The Big Country
126. Larry Gates in Some Came Running
127. Curt Jurgens in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
128. Charles Bickford in The Big Country
129. Audie Murphy in The Quiet American
130. Felipe Pazos Jr. in The Old Man and the Sea
131. Keith Almoney in The Blob
132. Anthony Franciosa in The Long, Hot Summer

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