Today’s actor really needs no introduction.  While Jack Nicholson started his career as a part of the Roger Corman stock company and appeared in the original Little Shop of Horrors while also being strongly considered for the role of Guy Woodhouse in Rosemary’s Baby, Nicholson has not appeared in many horror movies.

But the horror movie in which he did appear is such a classic that it’s made Nicholson a horror icon, even if he didn’t appear in as many horror films as a Christopher Lee or a Boris Karloff.

In this scene from 1980’s The Shining, Nicholson’s Jack Torrance has a drink with a ghost.  Nicholson does a wonderful job in this scene, especially when he’s playing off the wonderfully sinister Joe Turkel.