10 Best Movie Characters Who Appear In Only One Scene

10. Vincent Grey - The Sixth Sense

Donnie Wahlberg was already a familiar name by the time of his appearance in M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense - what with Donnie Hangin' Tough as part of New Kids on the Block - but his performance as Vincent Grey put him on the map in a major way when it came to his acting career.

Vincent may have only been on-screen for a matter of minutes and just the one scene, yet he is the character who truly set the tone for what lay ahead in The Sixth Sense.

Having dropped a ludicrous 40 lbs for the role of the unhinged Vincent, Wahlberg's character is an angry, scared, and desperate ball of emotion who shoots Bruce Willis' Malcolm Crowe and then kills himself during the opening moments of Shayamalan's 1999 breakthrough picture.

While audiences spent 95% of The Sixth Sense watching an alive and well Malcolm, it would of course be revealed that Willis' character was actually dead courtesy of that opening scene gunshot. As such, it could be argued that Vincent is actually the most important and impactful character of the entire story.

If it weren't for Vincent, Malcolm wouldn't be dead, which in turn would mean Malcolm wouldn't be able to assist young Cole Sear.