[Closed] Actors that 'own' a character.

Sean Connery as Bond.

Gary Oldman, Fifth Element and Tinker Tailor etc.

Ken Barlow

Basil Rathbone as Holmes.

Harry Corbett.

No one else did Sooty with the same panache and flair.

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I believe they considered a young Benedict Cumberbatch for the role, but he wasn't actually born, so Gary Coleman walked it...

@ crikey - Ken Barlow 😀 😀 Yeah, old Will Roache definitely made that his own ... for the last 40 years!

Daniel Craig as Bond
Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh.

He owned the hairstyle, too.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as the terminator. Cyberdyne Systems Model 101.
Bruce willis as a man in a vest.
David Jason as Del boy.

Clint as Dirty Harry
Peter Sellers as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau

[s]David Cameron as an arrogant, self-serving tosser.[/s]

Actually, there's been too much competition for that one.

Tony Brett was the Holmes

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He owned the hairstyle, too.

He stole it off me. 🙁

Tony Brett was the Holmes

[s]Bruce willis[/s] Gregor Fisher as a man in a vest. There can be only one!

[i]Jeremy[/i] Brett, Shirley?

Am currently ploughing through the complete Sherlock books, and he's got it down to a t.

Harison ford. Just about every character he's ever done.

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector

Al Pacino as Tony Montana

William Shatner as Kirk

Leonard Nimoy as Spock

Peter O Toole - T E Lawrance

Jack Nicholson - Jack Torrance (The Shining)

Kathy Bates - Annie Wilkes (Misery)

Johnny Depp - Capt Jack Sparrow

Kevin Spacey - Verbal Kint

Samuel L Jackson - Pulp Fiction (can't remember character name!)

Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas as Crocket and Tubbs as Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx didn't quite pull it off.

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Justin Fletcher as Mr Tumble

Alan Rickman in just about anything he does, but particularly Severus Snape.

Peter Sellers as inspector Jacques Clouseau

John Thaw as Regan

Jabba the Hut as Alex Salmond

Anyone saying Connery as Bond has never read any of the books.

Dalton or Craig. FACT!

On a related note, these two;
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and this chap

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and this old girl
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Gary Oldman in pretty much any part he's ever played

Roger Moore as James Bond (okay I am having a laugh,,,)
Brains from the Double Decker kids, almost typecast that guy

And this one:
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Michael Caine as errrr, Michael Caine, in every role he's played.

George Cole as Flash Harry

1) Heather Ledger as the Joker in ‘The Dark Knight’.

Best Jokers -

1 Jack Nicholson
2 Cesar Romero
3 Heath Ledger

Heath Ledgers joker only gets the acclaim it does because of his untimely death, if he was still alive it would be forgotten.

Kurt Russell is Snake Plissken.

Anne Parillaud as Nikita, none of that Hollywood remake shite.

Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller

Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman

Warren Mitchell - Alf Garnett
Wifred Brambell - Steptoe

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Joan Hickson - Miss Marple
John Thaw - Jack Reagan
Sean Connery - James Bond
Steve McQueen - (the bloke who always crashes into the barbed wire every Christmas)

Michael Le Vell as **** garage owner Kevin Webster.

Joe Pesci In all his roles, goodfellas , casino - no one plays a nutter quite like he does.

Al Pacino in scarface

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Alan ford in snatch

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Oh need to include (of course)

David Jason as Del Boy
Nicholas Lindhurst as Rodney

Richard Harris as Dumbledore (seeing as it's on at the moment). Somehow Michael Gambon missed the mark after seeing Richard Harris in the role.

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Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter

I've not seen Gary Oldman in tinker tailor yet, does he really do George smiley better than Alec Guinness.

Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi
James Earl Jones as Darth Vader
Jo Pesci as an insanely violent gangster
Judi Dench as M
That red fox as Robin Hood

David Prowse/ James Earl Jones as Darth Vader
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan
James Mason as Rommel
Marlon Brando as Mark Anthony
Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk

[i]Gary Oldman, Fifth Element and Tinker Tailor etc. [/i]

as ballsofcottonwool the definitive smiley is Alec Guinness.

the bloke who played Rorschach in Watchmen...............****ing awesome.

Robert Carlyle = Begbie.

June Brown = Dot Cotton.

Ifans/Evans Brothers = Lewis Twins.

Rami Malek as "Snafu" in The Pacific.

Fred Ward as Hoke Moseley in Miami Blues
Alec Baldwin as Fred Frenger in Miami Blues
Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in BlueVelvet
Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes in Wise Blood
Patricia Arquette as Alabama in True Romance

Good call on Begbie

Richard e grant as Withnail
Paul hogan - crocodile Dundee
The fibreglass shark - jaws

[i]Heath Ledgers joker only gets the acclaim it does because of his untimely death, if he was still alive it would be forgotten. [/i]

I'd disagree. Heath made that film, the acting was astounding. Nickleson was good because he is but nowhere near as good as Heath.

I'd also agree on the Bond front. Anyone who has read a Bond book will know that Daniel is Bond. Bond is not the humorous, nice guy that Connery and the others depict. He's a very dark character, bitter and hardened by death. Women are merely distractions to be thrown aside once used, men are enemies (in which case they die) or friends in which case they get used.

Aristotelis Savalas as Kojak

the bloke who played Rorschach in Watchmen...............**** awesome

I'd disagree. Heath made that film, the acting was astounding

AMEN.

Totally agree for Joan Hickson as Miss Marple and David Suchet as Poirot. Now must add:
Sharon Gless = Christine Cagney
Arthur Lowe = Captain Mainwaring
Penelope Keith = every character she plays

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Michael Caine as errrr, Michael Caine, in every role he's played.

Err no. Sorry.

He's only ever played one, maybe two, characters. The rest of the time he's played Michael Caine. He's the same in every film he's in.

michael sheen as david frost

agreed on heath ledger as the joker

gary oldman in pretty much anything, apart from that drexel chap whatever his name was with the dreadlocks

adrien brody in the pianist

eric bana in chopper

+1 on Leon

forest whittaker in the experiment

steve coogan as alan partridge

alec baldwin in 30rock

micky rourke in the wrestler

ali g as borat

brad pitt in snatch

will ferrel in elf

kevin spacey in american beauty

ryan gosling in the notebook

I'm liking how there seems to be a direct correlation between great actors playing great parts and good movies..

there's a distinct lack of Hollywood blockbuster dross here

edward norton in american history X

Ricci Harnett in Rise of the footsoldier

daniel day lewis in 'there will be blood'

dustin hoffman in 'hook'

tom hardy in bronson

jeff bridges as the dude

jack Nicholson in the departed

Phils working through his film collection....... I was going to say David Jason as Del Boy 🙂

+1 jack Nicholson in the departed

martin clunes in men behaving badly

Chalize Theron in Monster
Al Pacino in The Godfather
Michael J Fox in Back to the Future.
Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.
Sigourney Weaver in Alien.

That kid in the Milky Bar advert. Forty years he's been doing that. I wonder what'll happen when he dies?

the shark in jaws

Eli Wallach as Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez

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Considine - Dead Man's Shoes.

there's a distinct lack of Hollywood blockbuster dross here

Optimus Prime playing himself in Transformers

& Megan Fox's playing a hot girl also in Transformers 😉

Hugh Laurie as House
Heath Ledger as The Joker
Alan Ford as Brick Top
Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer!

Jonny Depp - in everything thus far.