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Actors/Actresses with a character that consume their careers.

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  • #62
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Macaulay Culkin will always be the kid from Home Alone.

    John Cleese will always be Basil Fawlty to me too.


  • #63
    wonderfulname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    Burky126 wrote: »
    Mr T as...Mr T.

    The character was called B. A. Baracus, goes to show just how right you are.


  • #64
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    One person for me who has done a complete turn around in terms of character and really shaken off his previous role (whom without his current role he'd be completely consumed by) is Bryan Cranston.Before breaking bad he was Hal but now its hard to imagine him as that character without actually watching malcolm in the middle, and even then its uncomfortable.


  • #65
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Biddy will always be Biddy


  • #66
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    wonderfulname wrote: »
    The character was called B. A. Baracus, goes to show just how right you are.


    You rang?




























    :pac:


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  • #67
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Will Ferrell has been Ron Burgundy too many times


  • #68
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    KingOfFairview wrote: »
    Mark Hamill springs to mind.

    Definitely, he'll forever be remembered as the voice of the Joker...


  • #69
    garv123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,579 ✭✭✭garv123


    Rowan Atkinson will always be Mr. Bean to me and I can't take him seriously in all film where he doesn't have a funny role.


  • #70
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    diomed wrote: »
    Peter Falk.

    I never saw Colombo. He'll always be Fred Savage's granddad to me.


  • #71
    Galaxie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭Galaxie


    Zooey Deschanel will always be Summer to me.

    Not that her characters ever change much, but still...


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  • #72
    Pang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    Telly Savalas was always Kojak to me no matter what I saw him in.


  • #73
    .red.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭.red.


    Havent read thru the thread fully so alologies if its already said.
    Aiden gillen as tommy carcetti in the wire was brilliant. I didnt even know he was irish till a year after i watched the wire. Everytime i saw him as john boy i imagined him as a yank trying to put on an irish accent. Thats more of a testament of how good i thought he was as tommy carcetti tho.


  • #74
    MonaPizza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭MonaPizza


    Patrick Duffy will always be bobby Ewing.

    Tom selleck will always be Magnum.


  • #75
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Thatdoesnt looksafe tome AHHHHHHH wrote: »
    Bryan Cranston to me will always be Hal from Malcolm in the Middle to me instead of walter white from breaking bad
    Pang wrote: »
    I can't help but always call Bryan Cranston Hal as well.

    Nah I'm fairly sure he's managed to escape being Hal for eternity at this stage. You'd have to worry for Aaron Paul's non 'yeah bitch' characters in the future though.


  • #76
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    dark crystal wrote: »
    Macaulay Culkin will always be the kid from Home Alone.

    John Cleese will always be Basil Fawlty to me too.
    Monty python!
    garv123 wrote: »
    Rowan Atkinson will always be Mr. Bean to me and I can't take him seriously in all film where he doesn't have a funny role.
    Blackadder!


  • #77
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Al Pacino is just playing Al Pacino - well in the last 30 years anyway.


  • #78
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Pang wrote: »
    Telly Savalas was always Kojak to me no matter what I saw him in.
    "What's Kojak doing to that woman daddy?" While watching The Dirty Dozzen.


  • #79
    cassid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭cassid


    Michael Crawford is Frank Spencer

    Lou Ferringo is the hulk

    Sissy Spacek is Carrie

    Robert Englund- Freddt Kreuger

    Glenn Close- Alex in Fatal Attraction

    Anthony Perkins-Norman Bates

    Judy Garland- Dorothy.

    Jonny Weissmuller Tarzan

    Dudley Moore- Arthur

    Rutger Hauer - Roy Batty (Blade Runner)

    John Voight - Joe Midmight cowboy

    Leslie Nielsen Lt. Frank Drebin


  • #80
    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    sylvestor stallone - rocky

    every other movie he starred in was basically the same character as rocky but just with a different name

    jim carey - all his movies have the same type of character


  • #81
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    KingOfFairview wrote: »
    Mark Hamill springs to mind.

    Skips on Regular show.


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  • #82
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Forgot about John C McGinley as Dr Cox in scrubs.

    Even though Office Space predates it, I can only see Dr Cox when I watch that movie


  • #83
    washiskin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,421 ✭✭✭washiskin


    Nathan Fillion will never let go of Malcolm Reynolds - thankfully. :)


  • #84
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Christopher Lambert will always be the highlander.
    No matter what I see Richard Thomas in I automatically think 'goodnight John Boy' :pac:
    Richard Wilson is the same 'I don't belieeve it'


  • #85
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    spankysue wrote: »
    Scott Bakula will always be Dr Sam Beckett to me.

    Same goes for the cast of any Star Trek series with the exception of Enterprise of course, 'cause Sam Beckett was the captain on Enterprise

    Kate Mulgrew may have broken the Star Trek curse somewhat with her role in Orange Is The New Black.

    Of course she was in Voyager so that doesn't really count :)


  • #86
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    dark crystal wrote: »
    Macaulay Culkin will always be the kid from Home Alone.

    nope, have you seen him lately? looks like someone you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, that's for sure: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02134/Macaulay_2134207b.jpg


  • #87
    KingOfFairview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    Links234 wrote: »
    nope, have you seen him lately? looks like someone you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, that's for sure: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02134/Macaulay_2134207b.jpg


    Jaysus, looks like he's come down with a dose of the oul AIDS, wha'


  • #88
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    heroin folks ;)


  • #89
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Anytime I see William Shatner, I don't think "Star Trek". I think DENNY CRANE!!


  • #90
    ron jambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭ron jambo


    Ed O Neill will always be Al Bundy,not Jay.


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  • #91
    dubstarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Reminds me Katey Segal will always be Peggy Bundy.No matter what i watch her in i always hear "Al"


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