I'm bringing this topic of mine to our forum, because there are several favorites we have seen on practically all LOCI episodes. One of my favs would have to be Roy Schrieder in the infamous Endgame! Yes, I did take this from the NBC board. It seems to do quite well there.

Ok I know there was one before... But my fav one of all time... dun dun dun dun!! Olivia D'abo. (Is that what it is, 'cuz I don't know...)

My favorite guest star on LOCI was Chita Rivera as Goren's mother. She did such a great job as a dying schizophrenic cancer patient and provided the perfect opportunity for Goren to both grieve, try to reach his brother again and then wonder deeply if he, indeed, was also a "whack job" - wow!

Also, the animations above are great - does anyone know where VDO is where he's in front of a little white house? I know he lives in Bensonhurst in Brooklyn but can't think that white house is his - or is it?

He was only on once, but I loved Neil Patrick Harris in Want. Even though he was playing a man who did horrible horrible things, he broke my heart. It takes some talent to do that.

It's in the episode prisioner. I'm nto sure WHO'S house excatly he's in front of... I think it's the guy who kidnapped this woman, and tricked her into thinking it wasn't kidnapping...

I thought I was one of the few who appreciated what a wonderful job NPH did in Want. You're right. What he did was horrible, but he was such a sad, remorseful man that you had to feel sorry for him.


Welcome to the forum Icarus74, hope you enjoy it here - the actress who played Goren's mom is Rita Moreno. She was amazing as Frances Goren, wasn't she?

I think that's out on Staten Island somewhere.

Oh... I want to see that epi again... I can't WAIT till it comes on!!

His mom was played by Rita Moreno. I loved Neil Patrick Harris!

I thought Michael Bien did a great job in The War at Home. I hope I spelled his name right.

I believe the woman who played his mother was in fact Rita Moreno and those houses might be in the Rockaways along Beach Channel. I also believe he now lives in the city.

I can't say that I have a favorite guest but I do love how they bring back old guests into new roles, especially when they are young, like the kid that was on the episode where he was suspected of killing his parole officer, I think you would call her but it was her own brother from the family of Gypsies, well anyway the boy later came back as the gambling addicted guy that was accused of murdering the teacher on the boat. Things like that I look for, and whenever they are in a photo studio, you'll see Vinnies headshots on the walls. It is so funny.

I think, IMO, Tom Arnold did a great job in Brother's Keeper, one of my favorite episodes!

He's good but ever since he lost all that weight his voice always sounds so nasally, not that there's anything wrong with that, it just always sounds like he has a cold with stuffy nose.

I love Michael Biehn (sp). I wish they'd have him back on LOCI. He gets better looking with age, too. Just like VDO.

Yeah judy, he does get better looking with age! Most men do, just not fair!!

It's hard to pick just one. Rita Moreno was great as his mom, and I've liked Tony Goldwyn for a while (although he was a surprise for me as Bobby's brother), Neil Patrick Harris is always...wait for it.... awesome ( sorry I couldn't resist) Ryder Strong was good in the Pilgrim. I could go on and on.

I really liked Jenna Stern, who guest starred in many episodes! She is a great actress!

BUMP!!!! **Get rid of that nasty thread by bumping!!** **we will now return to your normally scheduled programming** Oh and I think Olivia D'abo is the best guest star ever on ci. Thankx!!

I think John Glover gave a great performance as Declan Gage.

It was good that Cynthis Nixon won the emmy for the guest star in SVU episode, which was thrilling, but IMO, the late Roy Sheider should have taken that award, and VDO as best actor in the Endgame. I watched it last night and each time I watch, it's the best episode I've ever seen! It's so touching and I cry my eyes out everytime I watch it. Brilliant episode!!

WORD, KRod!

I'll tell you, I can't complain about any guest star on any epi......but I do have a list of people that I'd like to see as a guest on CI:

--Bill Kurtis (if you've ever seen any of his crime shows on A&E, the man is just AWESOME!!--and handsome too! )
--Rutger Hauer (one of the great actors who play villains so well)
--Harrison Ford
--Fred Gwynne
--Mercedes Ruel (hilarious in Married to the Mob)
--Joan Plowright
--Juliette Binoche
--Joan Cusack

I had no idea David Thornton was a guest on LO: Criminal Intent as a sick man (Kenny Strick) in ‘Maledictus’. I gotta admit, he kinda looked creepy in that episode, but did an outstanding performance. He is a regular lawyer (Lionel Granger) in Special Victims Unit. No wonder I’ve seen him somewhere.

I really enjoy seeing the stars I grew up with guest starring on LOCI like Michael York and Liza Minelli, but I was really impressed by Richie Coster's performance as the creepy, Serbian enforcer for a loan shark in Homo Homini Lupus. (Still a very hard episode to watch). I've seen him on the mothership and SVU as well and he is so good at playing really creepy, evil characters.

I agree that it's a hard episode to watch. And he is quite creepy. Until Frame I would have said that Roy Scheider had the King of Creepy title. But now it's hard to choose between him and John Glover.

What is the black actress's name in Badge? She's awesome, and I've seen her in SVU as a rough attorney! She is a great guest star!

Viola Davis

"You're not that frugal... I'm surprised you can make bus fare the way you spend money."

I love to see actors (the ones who don't play the seemingly same character in every role they play ) in very different roles. I've seen her play a 'good' cop in a couple of TV movies based on Robert Parker's "Stone Cold" books. She was very different. It took me few minutes to remember where I'd seen her. lol Lou Pucci (?) I did not realize that it was the same actor in "Thumbsucker" and CI's "Cruise To Nowhere". Amy Ryan I didn't realize that she was in "Suite Sorrow" and "Rocketman" until I looked her up on the IMDb after seeing her in the movie "Gone Baby Gone".
Billy Lush who played Connie in "Sound Bodies" is one of my favorites. I don't think I've seen him in anything else. I wonder why? I thought that he was excellent. Colm Meany was very good . His character made my skin crawl.
Neil Patrick Harris was really good too.

I agree. I love it that all three of the L&Os use a lot of the same actors. One of my favorites is Susan Misner. She's played everything from a totally drugged out negligent mom (on SVU, I think) to a nun in LOCI Acts of Contrition to the very ambitious head of a huge corporation on LO. She's totally believable in every role she plays.
I'm also impressed with Cara Buono who played Charlotte Fielding/Cookie Caspari in Phantom (one of my all time favorite eppies.) I've seen her in a couple of LO episodes and if I hadn't recognized her voice, I wouldn't have know whe was the same person.

I think Rita Morena was awesome and also Roy Scheiber. I thought they would both be nominated for best guest actor/actress. I also think that Micheal Gross was great as the pathetic middle-aged gentleman pursuing a beautiful Stephanie Seymour. And, although I don't know his name, I thought the guy that played "Chops" was really good and I loved the interaction between him and Bobby.

Oh right, Misner played a nun in one and a stripper junkie in another. I forgot about her. And i saw Cara Buono playing a lying something or other i forget the s/l but i wouldn't have recognized her had i not seen her name.

for me it's a tie,

between Neil Patrick Harris and Roy Scheider. To bad Neil's character died on the show, but maybe he could do something else. And the Late great Mr. Scheider died.

Welcome to the forum! Please read the etiquitte thread, you will learn alot, as I did when I first came.

Rita Moreno is still one of my favorite guest stars on LOCI

There was a mystical type of chemistry, an energy flow that passed back and forth between Vincent and a select group of guest stars. You could see and feel that both performers were feeding off that energy and challenging each other to deliver magical performances. Others have already mentioned the guest stars in question: Olivia d'Abo; Tony Goldwyn; Reta Moreno; Roy Shyder; Colm Meaney and John Glover (in Frame).

Other guest stars I particularly enjoyed were:

Bruce MacVittie as Arnie Cox in Semi-Professional
Mark Linn-Baker as Wally Stevens in Probability and Endgame
Billy Lush as Conroy (Connie) Smith in Sound Bodies and ITWSH
Neil Patrick Harris as John Tagman in Want
Lou Taylor Pucci as Joey Frost in Cruise to Nowhere
Missy Crider as Charlene Copeland in Bedfellows
Tom Arnold as Rev. Calvin Riggins in Brother's Keeper
Sarah Jane Morris as Marla Reynolds in Please Note
Christopher Lloyd as Carmine in Vanishing Act

A minor guest star that I would love to see come back as the same character is Jessica Blank as Sheila Dwyer, the Dominatrix/911 Operator in Proud Flesh. Bobby was totally fascinated with her. He was also fascinated with the "domination porno for intellectuals" materials that they found in Dr, Dwyer's apartment in Seizure. (The writer obviously made the connection also.) IMOH Bobby has a secret desire to explore that aspect of his sexuality. Not that they would ever spell it out on the show, but I would like to see her written into another storyline and another interaction occur between them - this time with her as the 911 Operator who is an integral witness in a murder investigation.

I also really liked the Convenience store guy in Betrayed.

Billy Lush appeared in the series 'The Black Donnellys' (it was cancelled after one season unfortunately)

My favourite guest stars are Rita Moreno, Roy Scheider, Tony Goldwyn, John Glover and Griffin Dunne.

My favorite guest stars are John Glover, Neil Patrick Harris, Colm Meaney, Mark Linn-Baker, Tom Arnold and Tony Goldwyn. I also liked Michael O'Keefe from 'Seeds' in season 7. Not a G/E episode but still a favorite of mine.

I LOVED Richie Coster's performance in 'Homo Homini Lupus', too!
My favorite L&O (mothership) performance of Richie Coster is in the episode 'Bodies'... VERY CREEPY! (the lawyer unlocked the lock where the dead bodies were buried, and he did not tell McCoy where they were, so McCoy threw him in jail and the jury found the lawyer guilty.)




I can't choose either! 'Endgame' was so heartbreaking! Roy Schieder's performance should have gotten him an Emmy nomination...
I didn't find John Glover's character of Declan Gage all that creepy in Blind Spot, even though a lot of other people did. However, his work in 'Frame' just blew me away! I get goosebumps just thinking about the last scene: "You're free, now. Bobby, you're free!" CHILLING!!!!!!!! John Glover should get an Emmy nomination for best guest star...

I liked the nannies (Merrit Weaver & Tammy Blanchard, I think,) in 'Tomorrow'. That was a great episode with great performances!

Great list! I might add Peter Falk. I've always loved him as Lt. Columbo, and it would be interesting to see a retired Lt. Columbo visiting from Los Angeles match his methods against NYPD's Det. Goren's. Or, maybe he'd play the criminal.

Oh yeah... I'd love to see Peter Falk. Even better if Alan Arkin is on two and they are in-laws... LOL

Hi Miss Divine! I don't recall seeing Rutgar Hauer in an LOCI episode. Which one was it?

I love that movie! One of my favorite scenes is when they are getting shot at and Peter Falk is trying to get Alan Arkin to "serpentine" to avoid the bullets. I'm a sucker for that goofy physical comedy. Show me someone running into a closed door and I laugh every time!

I think that was a list of people she hopes to see, not people that have been on already.




Yes! That's my favorite scene too. "Serpentine, Shel!" The whole thing is a classic. If you love physical comedy, another oldie but goodie is "All Of Me" with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. Go rent it. You'll laugh your butt off.

Yes! That's my favorite scene too. "Serpentine, Shel!" The whole thing is a classic. If you love physical comedy, another oldie but goodie is "All Of Me" with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. Go rent it. You'll laugh your butt off.
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Thanks for the recommendation...I haven't seen "All of Me". Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin together makes me laugh just thinking about it! Off to log on to Netflix!

Still can't remember the black actress who guest starred in Badge, one of my favorite episodes. I have seen her also in SVU as an excellent attorney several times. Great actress, IMO.

I believe her name is Viola Davis. She's in that movie Nights in Rodanthe that's in theaters now if you want to go see her in something else.

Yep, that's her name, thanks!

Chris Meloni is in Nights in Rodanthe, too.

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