Which actors for you, give THE definitive performance that’s never going to be bettered - you couldn't imagine anyone else playing the part, whether it’s a one off role or interpreting an established personality?
Two nominations from me -
1) Heather Ledger as the Joker in ‘The Dark Knight’.
2) Sir Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in ‘Sexy Beast’.
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. 🙁
- what!? Wood from the knees up. Brett played SH like a camp theatre ham! No way it can be anybody other than Basil Rathbone 😀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
