thisbluespirit | Top 5: Rubbish fake facial hair

swordznsorcery is a terrible (amazing) person and asked for this. Obviously it needed pictures:

I missed that it was specifically fake facial hair bit and included some bad wigs as well. But in my defence, they are very bad wigs. But it's all not good fake hair somewhere on the head anyway.

1. I've never seen anything to equal Derek Jacobi in The Pallisers:

2. Tessa Peake in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. This should never have been allowed anywhere near her head. If they wanted a fair actor they should have cast one. If they wanted Tessa Peake they should just have ignored the bit where it was suggested that Julia was blonde.

3. Michael Johnson in the first episode of The Shadow of the Tower. I mean, to be fair, he's Sir Francis Lovell and this is post Bosworth, it's been a bad hair day. BUT EVEN SO:

It's very distracting.

4. James Maxwell's facial hair in The Portrait of a Lady

It's not even the terrible little pointy moustache - after all, he's not supposed to be nice or anything - but the way that it looks as if he grew his own beard and then they stuck a random furry blob on the top because it was insufficient. In all his range of fake moustaches and even occasional fake eyebrows, almost all of which are terrible, this is just... like, what. why.

5. Oliver Cotton in The Borgias (BBC 1980s version)

Like, this isn't even that bad for the BBC but Oliver Cotton isn't that good and he's the main character and I just wound up hating his fake hair all the time.

Honorary mention for Ronald Fraser's fake eyebrows and moustache in Private Potter:

James Maxwell also has them, but perhaps I'm just inured to seeing his face with aberrant bits of unreal hair on it, but he seems to carry them off marginally better on that occasion than poor Mr. Fraser here.

I would mention the eyebrows of Adam Adamant, but obviously they are awesome and not rubbish. *g*