Lionel Stander (1908-1994) always gave relyable support to more star like actors, his voice probably being his main trademark. I like him best in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac (a starring part no less).
In The Cassandra Crossing (1976), dir. George P. Cosmatos Stander plays a Swiss train conductor. The uniform (no longer in use here, alas) seems genuine down to the last button. He has many stars on board (Sofia Loren, Ava Gardner, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson, Lee Strasberg, you name it), and, what's more, a deadly disease. He behaves in a truly Swiss fashion: rational and unheroic.

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