10 More Best Movie Characters Who Only Appear In ONE Scene

Deep into the third act of the Coen brothers' Best Picture-winning masterpiece No Country for Old Men, beleaguered Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) pays a visit to his uncle Ellis (Barry Corbin).

Having just found Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) murdered, Bell feels totally and utterly defeated, that the brutality of the region and the era is simply too much for him to deal with.

In a mesmerising scene, Bell explains this to Ellis, who offers up his own poetic perspective on the futility of revenge, before telling him the tale of their Uncle Mac's death in 1909, suggesting to him that ultra-violence isn't a new phenomenon for the area.

In his chilling final words to Bell, he tells him, "What you got ain't nothing new. This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity."

The whole scene is a perfect fusion of first-rate writing, direction, and acting, but few single-scene characters have ever held the screen as magnetically as Uncle Ellis.