Unusually for Wayne, who usually portrayed straitlaced heroes, Cogburn is portrayed as a curmudgeonly antihero. Stan is described as "opinionated and curmudgeonly" retired Billingsgate fishmonger with a manipulative side. Stan has been billed as "opinionated and curmudgeonly", and having a manipulative side. His voice is direct and chatty and sometimes a bit curmudgeonly. He berates his employees and is generally curmudgeonly towards his well-wishers. He is portrayed as a generally competent, if profane and curmudgeonly detective. He was frequently cast in westerns and as a curmudgeonly and argumentative old man. Dr Chalmers is an elderly, curmudgeonly intellectual, frequently irritated by his fellow residents. He often comes across as curmudgeonly and ungrateful to Frasier for taking care of him. She even sincerely cares for the giddy Ginevra, albeit in a blunt, curmudgeonly fashion. Bill Tyler (Charlton Heston) is an argumentative, curmudgeonly mountain man. Meanwhile, Munsu meets with his friend, curmudgeonly fellow filmmaker Jaehak (Jung Jae-young). The curmudgeonly Roger balks at this, but laughs it off with Frank. This provides an opportunity for Billy to spend more time with his curmudgeonly grandfather. In later years, Gillingwater played a few more curmudgeonly character roles.