Actors/Actresses with a character that consume their careers.

Lando Griffin · 25-08-2013 08:19AM #1

Just like the title suggests.

For example.
Nicholas Lyndhurst or Rodney. Somehow when he is acting in Good Night Sweetheart I kept thinking Rodney and went off the program.
Saw where he is to be in New Tricks and again thought to myself Rodney.

Another is Ardel O Hanlon when he was in My Hero, just kept thinking hey that's Fr Dougal.

Both parts were probably consumed by their previous successes in another show.

Any more that spring to mind?

Davei141 · 25-08-2013 08:22AM

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will forever be known as Mulder & Scully.

Sinfonia · 25-08-2013 08:22AM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Just like the title suggests.

For example.
Nicholas Lyndhurst or Rodney. Somehow when he is acting in Good Night Sweetheart I kept thinking Rodney and went off the program.
Saw where he is to be in New Tricks and again thought to myself Rodney.

Another is Ardel O Hanlon when he was in My Hero, just kept thinking hey that's Fr Dougal.

Both parts were probably consumed by their previous successes in another show.

Anymore that spring to mind?

Anyone in a long-running TV show is gonna find it hard to break away from that character.
Everyone in Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, etc.

Sinfonia · 25-08-2013 08:23AM

Davei141 wrote: »

David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson will forever be known as Mulder and Scully.

To be honest I think of David Duchovny as Hank Moody more quickly, because I was never really into The X Files.

IvySlayer · 25-08-2013 08:27AM

Neil Flynn - Janitor

King Krib · 25-08-2013 08:28AM

Maybe an expection to the rule..but Friends star Matthew Perry's new show Go On is quite good. He plays a fairly strong character in it, the last name that would come to mind is Chandler Bing.
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padd b1975 · 25-08-2013 08:29AM

Miley.

King Krib · 25-08-2013 08:32AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Miley.

Miley was hugely known in theatre circles more as Mick Lally than Miley.. but now that you say it " is there anythin stirring?"

DEFTLEFTHAND · 25-08-2013 08:42AM

Looking back now and I know it preceded Only Fools but when I see a young David Jason playing a shopboy in Open All Hours I think Del Boy. Even still when he did the voice for Duckla in the mid 90s, a staple of my childhood. 'That's Del' as my Dad would say when we watched the VHS together.

KingOfFairview · 25-08-2013 08:45AM

Mark Hamill springs to mind.

Lando Griffin · 25-08-2013 08:47AM

Sinfonia wrote: »

Anyone in a long-running TV show is gonna find it hard to break away from that character.
Everyone in Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, etc.

I actually think David Jason achieved it in A Touch of Frost.

Orion · 25-08-2013 08:49AM

Spock

folamh · 25-08-2013 08:53AM

John C McGintley and Zach Braff (Scrubs)

JustAThought · 25-08-2013 08:55AM

Jennifer Akinson ( from friends -ALWAYS the same)

Nicholas Cage ( what part)

Sadly, for the past ten years the previously great Robert De Niro

Sunnyisland · 25-08-2013 08:58AM

Not actually yet but Nidge will always be nidge love/hate.

Also for me sylvester stallone will always be rocky,
Sean connery will always be james bond.

Katgurl · 25-08-2013 08:59AM

Sharon stone as the damaged homicidal temptress sans underwear in Basic Instinct.

Stallone will always be Rocky to me.

Hilary Swank playing a boy (is it Boys Don't Cry?)

Al Pacino playing Michael Corleone.

I think it's testament to what amazing actors Kate & Leo are that they managed to shake off their Titanic characters.

Charleze Theron in Monster.

Lando Griffin · 25-08-2013 09:00AM

Steve Coogan will always be Alan Partridge no matter what he does.
But that fine by me.

sioda · 25-08-2013 09:03AM

Almost all actors on star trek bar Patrick Stewart her was born to play professor Xavier. Have a feeling Jim Parsons will always be Sheldon

Ted_YNWA · 25-08-2013 09:08AM

sioda wrote: »

Have a feeling Jim Parsons will always be Sheldon

Was just thinking that.

Bazinga

GT_TDI_150 · 25-08-2013 09:10AM

Malcolm (in the middle),

Ur man, the fireman in Corrie - (he's the voice over guy on 'how it's made' and similar) when OH is watching Corrie I constantly envisage some poor sod putting fig-rolls in a box somewhere.

Ted_YNWA · 25-08-2013 09:12AM

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

Malcolm (in the middle),

Ur man, the fireman in Corrie - (he's the voice over guy on 'how it's made' and similar) when OH is watching Corrie I constantly envisage some poor sod putting fig-rolls in a box somewhere.

Never knew that ....

Mike Myers will always be known as Austin Powers.

Not G.R · 25-08-2013 09:39AM

realies wrote: »

Sean connery will always be james bond.

Will always be Indanna Jones' dad for me.

The Harry Potter kids will always be just that.
Michael J Fox will always be Marty.

KingOfFairview · 25-08-2013 09:51AM

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Never knew that ....

Mike Myers will always be known as Austin Powers.

Nope, also as Wayne

Zen65 · 25-08-2013 09:52AM

Phil Silvers was always Sgt Bilko

Lassie. . . that poor bitch was always given the same role over and over ("roll over . . good girl")

William Shatner . . always Captain Kirk (even when he was TJ Hooker I knew he was Captain Kirk)

Roseanne Barr . . always Roseanne Barr (even when she was Roseanne Arnold)

Sarah Michelle Gellar . . . always Buffy (and I never watched a single episode of Buffy)

Derek Jacobi . . . always I Claudius

Higel Hawthorne . . . always Sir Humphrey Appleby

Yamanoto · 25-08-2013 10:08AM

Early in his career, Harry H. Corbett was considered one of the finest young actors in Britain, with a very bright future ahead of him.

A 12-year stint as Harold Steptoe brought fame & success, but the price paid was that audiences, critics & casting agents never took him seriously again.

Mental Mickey · 25-08-2013 10:10AM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Just like the title suggests.

For example.
Nicholas Lyndhurst or Rodney. Somehow when he is acting in Good Night Sweetheart I kept thinking Rodney and went off the program.
Saw where he is to be in New Tricks and again thought to myself Rodney.

Another is Ardel O Hanlon when he was in My Hero, just kept thinking hey that's Fr Dougal.

Both parts were probably consumed by their previous successes in another show.

Any more that spring to mind?

David Jason as Del Boy

mrsdewinter · 25-08-2013 10:11AM

I think actors can have a life beyond their calling-card role.
For me, Gillian Anderson will always be the woman who wore boring trouser suits in The X Files - but in recent years, she's carved out a bit of a niche on this side of the Atlantic.
There was Tristram Shandy, I think she was Miss Havisham in some BBC version of Great Expectations, and then this year she was in that crime drama The Fall, which was made in the North.
Obviously, she'll never get a role as life-changing as Scully ever again, but she must be respected as an actor, or she simply wouldn't be working.