The actor would have been pleased to hear everyone's compliments about his sleazy character. For an actor that means, good acting skill. No actor wants to be told that he is unconvincing playing a character role.
It helped too, that he was an unattractive man which tremendously helped his sleazy character 'look'.
A lot of Hollywood actors over the past 60 years made a B-list career playing thugs, villains, hoods, hooligans, simply because they 'looked' the part. Tall, muscular men with hard faces made excellent Hollywood bad guys.
Ironically, when these guys passes away in their later years, family, friends, and acquaintances often described these Hollywood villains as the nicest, friendliest guys around. This means you can't judge a book by its cover but we humans genetically seem to be predisposed to that behavior.
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