Empire Online has a list of The 20 Best Alternative Coen Characters and Deputy Wendell is on it. (The Coen brothers have a new movie out and they’ve been in the press a lot lately.) The complete list is below.
- Loren Visser (M Emmet Walsh), Blood Simple
- Dot (Frances McDormand), Raising Arizona
- Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), Raising Arizona
- Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito), Miller’s Crossing
- Tic Tac (Al Mancini), Miller’s Crossing
- Jack Lipnick (Michael Lerner), Barton Fink
- W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney), Barton Fink
- Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning), The Hudsucker Proxy
- Buzz (Jim True-Frost), The Hudsucker Proxy
- Mike Yanagita (Steve Park), Fargo
- Officer Lou (Bruce Lohene), Fargo
- Marty (Jack Keller), The Big Lebowski
- Penny Wharvey McGill (Holly Hunter), O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Freddy Reidenschneider (Tony Shalhoub), The Man Who Wasn’t There
- Gus Petch (Cedric the Entertainer), Intolerable Cruelty
- Wheezy Joe (Irwin Keyes), Intolerable Cruelty
- Deputy Wendell (Garret Dillahunt), No Country For Old Men
- Gas Station Proprietor (Gene Jones), No Country For Old Men
- CIA Superior (J.K. Simmons), Burn After Reading
- Sy Abelman (Fred Melamed), A Serious Man