Film Roles That Were Perfectly Cast

Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched

Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs

Casted.

Sissy Spacek as Carrie

Mo'Nique in Precious

R3 Oh, dear.

R6, it’s a DL joke.

Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffanys.

Michael J Fox as Marty McFly

Shit, no! Captain Leland Stoddard from Monk? I saw SOTL twice in theater release. He was well-cast for the creepy BS.

I'm not one of those eldergays who has a hard time reconciling facts.

Jessica Lange as Patsy Cline

Darren Criss as Andrew Cunanan

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara

Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge

Can you imagine that CZJ and Heath ledger were considered for Sateen and Christian?

Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick in Election

Ruth Gordon..... Harold and Maude

I think perfectly cast roles mean those performances were so fantastic and unique that you can’t think of any actor past or present doing justice. It shouldn’t just be a wonderful performance, it’s something beyond that.

So in that regard, I’d have to say John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever comes to mind. He gave that character depth beyond what was written in the script and of course the charisma, the look, the dancing. Can’t think of any actor then or now who could have made the role work without Tony coming off as an unsympathetic moron.

Another one that comes to mind is Angelina Jolie in Gia.

Surprisingly, Brando was first choice only of the novel's author, Mario Puzo. Coppola and Paramount also seriously considered Ernest Borgnine, Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Danny Thomas (!), Richard Conte, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quinn, and George C. Scott. Burt Lancaster wanted the part badly but was never in the running. In the end, it was between Borgnine and Brando.

Dah-dah-dah-daddah-DAH...

Catherine Deneuve in Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Annie Hall

Arletty in Les Enfants du Paradis

Bette Davis in All About Eve

Joan Crawford in Trog

Steve Buscemi cast as a supporting role, any movie!

[quote] Danny Thomas (!)

Would he have been paid under the table to avoid taxes?

Roman and Minnie Castevet

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman.

Just watched Belle De Jour, only Catherine Deneuve could be Séverine.

Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon

Danny Devito as The Penguin & Michelle Pfeifer as Catwoman

Maggie Smith in everything she’s done, except for The First Wive’s Club And Travels with My Aunt (though she has probably aged into it now).

It might interest you to know, OP, that Brando was a very unpopular choice for The Godfather no natter what Mario Puzo supposedly said (it was based on his best selling book). Brando was a has been, an impossible to work with box office poison drunk. Lee J Cobb was a name I read thrown around at the time. The movie briefly revived Brando's career. And it was brief. It did, however, reinvent the idea that Brando was one of the greats, which he had previously squandered with self indulgence in the prior decade.

the Sanderson sisters from Hocus Pocus

Heath Ledger as The Joker in Dark Knight.

Jeff Bridges as The Dude

Shelley Duvall as Millie Lammoreaux in 3 Women. Unforgettable.

Jon Hamm as the a****** in Bridesmaids.

Jeremy Irons as Claius Von Bulow.

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

[quote] Heath Ledger as The Joker in Dark Knight.

I did not like Heath Ledger in his role as "Joker".

Yes, Claus, I know

Sonny

R22, Possibly, but it would have been a crap shoot.

Sean Penn as Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

Angela Lansbury as Laurence Harvey's mother in "The Manchurian Candidate."

Eileen Brennan in Private Benjamin

Gregory Peck as Atticus

Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack.

Tim Curry in Rocky Horror

Ted Knight in Caddyshack

Cloris Leachman as Frau Blucher

Marty Feldman as Igor

Elizabeth Taylor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Hillary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry

Charlize Theron in Monster

Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth in "Young Frankenstein."

Madeline Kahn as Trixie Delight in "Paper Moon."

Mia Farrow in “Rosemary’s Baby”.

Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz in "Beetlejuice"

Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in The Matrix

Joan Fontaine as the second Mrs. de Winter in "Rebecca"

Sean Connery as Bond. James Bond.

Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers in "Rebecca".

Stockard Channing as Ouisa Kittridge in "Six Degrees of Separation."

Aileen Quinn as Annie

Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze in "Lolita."

Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Elisha Cook, Jr. in "The Maltese Falcon."

Livvy nailed “THE (homely) HEIRESS”

Fredo - John Casales

Jodi Foster made “Taxi Driver”

Audrey Hepburn as Princess Ann in "Roman Holiday."

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in "The Pink Panther" and "A Shot in the Dark"

Sarah Jessica Parker as Seabiscuit was painfully realistic and raw. Stunning transformation.

Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty in "Lolita."

Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff & Beau Bridges in The Fabulous Baker Boys

Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate."

Robert Walker as Bruno Antony in "Strangers on a Train."

Marion Lorne as Bruno Antony's mother.

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch

Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter."

Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy Cline in "Coal Miner's Daughter."

Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker, it helped that she played the role on Broadway. It was a thoroughly convincing performance well-deserving of Oscar.

M as The Witch in "Into the Woods."

Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter in "The Apartment."

Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz."

Christopher Reeve as Superman.

Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotton, Edna May Wonacott, and Patricia Collinge in "Shadow of a Doubt."

Glenn as Alex Forrest

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly.

Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie in "Carrie"

Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Hattie McDaniel and Olivia de Havilland in "Gone With The Wind"

Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr and Billie Burke in "The Wizard of Oz"

Al Pacino and Chris Sarandon in "Dog Day Afternoon"

Peter Sellers in "Being There"

Boris Karloff in "Frankenstein"

George C. Scott in "Patton"

Charlton Heston in "The Ten Commandments"

Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and James Caan in "The Godfather"

Robert de NIro in "Taxi Driver"

Greta Garbo in "Queen Christina" and "Camille"

Emily Watson in "Breaking the Waves"

Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke" and "Hud"

Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry"

Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot"

Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Sandy Dennis in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

James Dean in "Rebel Without A Cause."

Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in "Chinatown"

Gene Hackman in "The French Connection"

Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday", "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Sabrina'

Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day"

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca"

Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon"

Peter O'Toole in "Lawrence of Arabia"

Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in "The Lion in Winter"

Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in "The Graduate"

Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in "Midnight Cowboy"

Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ronnie Cox and Ned Beatty in "Deliverance."

Bette Davis in "All About Eve" and "Jezebel"

James Stewart in "It's A Wonderful Life"

Jean Harlow in "Red Dust" and "Dinner at Eight"

Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in "The Lion in Winter."

Jane, Lily & Dolly in 9 to 5

Everyone in Clue

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.

Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia

Maria Ouspenskaya and Lon Chaney Jr. in The Wolfman

Thelma Ritter as Stella in "Rear Window."

Thelma Ritter as Birdie in "All About Eve."

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates.

Billie Burke as Glinda

Elsa Lanchester as the Monster's Mate in "Bride of Frankenstein."

Jason Miller in The Exorcist

Ernest Thesiger as Dr. Pretorius

Zelda Rubenstein as Tangina

Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple

Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution

Madeline Kahn as Trixie Delight, as Eunice Burns, and as Elizabeth (the Monster's Bride).

Three very different performances, and yet she could not have been better in any of them.

Rita Moreno as Anita

Marilyn Monroe as Miss Casswell in "All About Eve."

Everybody in Rocky

Bette Davis in "The Letter."

Not her usual kind of role; and yet it was her greatest.

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark

Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice

Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in "Double Indemnity."

Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct

Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction (WHET Linda?)

Lena Olin in Romeo is Bleeding

Gary Oldman in Leon: The Professional

Helen Lawson in Revenge of the Poseidon Adventure

Cary Grant as Dr. David Huxley in "Bringing Up Baby."

Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies. A perfectly executed film IMO. Betty Lynn as Dixie, Duvall's ex is perfect as well.

R105, WHET Linda Fiorentino? Harvey Weinstein

Paul Dano in There Will be Blood

Julianne Moore in Magnolia

The entire cast of Goodfellas

Damn. I shoulda known R110

Spike Lee in Do the Right Thing

Everybody in the 2 Addams Family films

Clifton Webb in "Laura."

Gina Gershon as Crystal Conners

Gene Tierney in "Leave Her to Heaven."

Toni Collette, as "Muriel/Mariel," in Muriel's Wedding.

Candy Clark, in American Graffiti.

Toni Colette in Hereditary

Peter Lorre in M

Thelma and Louise

Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet

Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw in Jaws

Ben Stein as the teacher ("Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?) in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love

Richard Kiel as Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me

Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again

Terry Kiser as Bernie in Weekend at Bernie's

Ray Milland as Tony Wendice in Dial M for Murder

Naomi Watts and Laura Harring in Mulholland Drive

M. Emmet Walsh in Blood Simple

Lee Grant as Felicia in "Shampoo."

Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, and Andrea Martin in Black Christmas

[quote] Ben Stein as the teacher ("Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?) in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."—Ed Rooney

Oh, Ed. You just sounded like Dirty Harry just then.

Alfre Woodard and Delroy Lindo in Crooklyn

Greta Garbo as Ninotchka

Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack and Julie Hagerty as Elaine Dickinson in "Airplane!"

Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, and Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her

Sandy Dennis in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

[quote]Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction (WHET Linda?)

She was difficult, and lacked the cachet to transcend the bad reputation.

Robert Duvall as Col. Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now."

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley

Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa

Ginger Rogers as Roxie Hart

Anne Ramsey as Momma in "Throw Momma From the Train."

Ruth Gordon as Ma in Any which Way but loose.

Viggo Mortenson in Eastern Promises

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black

Angela Lansbury as Nancy in "Gaslight."

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

Angela as Salome Otterbourne in "Death on the Nile"

Courtney Cox as Gale Weathers

Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard

Toto as Toto in "The Wizard of Oz."

Danny Devito, Rhea Perlman, and Pam Ferris in Matilda

Sharon Stone as Ginger in Casino

Oliver Reed as Bill Sykes

Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park

Sally Kellerman in Back to School

Mira Sorvino as Linda in "Mighty Aphrodite."

Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon and Darren McGavin in A Christmas Story

Everyone in Happiness

[quote] Toto as Toto in "The Wizard of Oz."

Toto's real name was "Terry."

Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright and Jeff Goldblum in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Michael Keaton as Bill Blazejowski in "Night Shift."

Kathleen Turner in Body Heat

Angela Basset in Strange Days

Johnny Depp as Ed Wood

Tony Todd as Candyman

Robert Englund as Freddy Kruger

R163, Terry used the stage name "Toto" in "The Wizard of Oz" credits; apparently to avoid embarrassing the family, who were anti-show business.

Honor Blackman as Pissy Galore

ugh I meant Pussy

Pissy, R170?

Mel Gibson as Mad Max

Tina Turner as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Hey the I key is right next to the U key, R172. Cut me some slack, Jack!

Happens all the time on DL, R170, "Pussy" = "Ugh!"

Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man

Linda Hamilton as Sarah Conner

Nicole Kidman as Suzanne Stone in To Die For

Pat Carroll as the voice of Ursula the Sea Witch

Practically everybody in Drop Dead Gorgeous

James Cromwell as dirty cop Capt. Dudley Smith in L.A. Confidential. (Also played Stretch Cunningham on "All in the Family.") He's the guy on the right.

Julie Harris in The Haunting

Deborah Kerr in The Innocents

Tuesday Weld as Barbara Ann Green in "Lord Love a Duck."

Betsy Palmer as Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th

Rory Calhoun & Nancy Parsons in Motel Hell

Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov in Eating Raoul

Mary Woronov as Miss Togar in Rock'n'Roll High School

Shirley Maclaine and Olympia Dukakis in Steel Magnolias

Shelley Duvall as Pam in "Annie Hall."

"Sex with you is really a Kafka-esque experience."

Emma Thompson in "Howards End."

Michelle Pfeiffer as Cat Woman in Batman Returns. And also Danny DeVito as The Penguin now that I think of it.

Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, and Janeane Garofalo in Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion

Dawson in Dawson’s 50 Load Weekend.

the cast of Waiting for Guffman

R189, are you also R27?

Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis in The Out-of-Towners

R185 [!!!], P.J. Soles as Riff Randell in "Rock 'n' Roll High School," too!

Marlene Dietrich as The Scarlet Empress

Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce

Ann Dvorak in Three on a Match

Jeanne Moreau in Mademoiselle

Are people just randomly listing memorable or well-written characters?

The talking pig in Babe. Perfect casting on th Ed part of whoever found the porcine talent.

Isabelle Adjani in Possession

No, R199, we're listing roles that were so well cast and well performed that we can't picture anyone else in the role.

Simone Signoret as Nicole in "Diabolique."

Shelley Duvall as L.A. Joan in Nashville

& Geraldine Chaplin as Opal from the BBC

Alison Steadman in Abigail's Party

Divine as Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray."

Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy in Clueless

Ezra Miller in We Need to Talk About Kevin

Jeff Goldbloom in The Fly

Victor Buono as Flagg in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"

Walter Matthau and Elaine May in A New Leaf

Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, and Jeannie Berlin in The Heartbreak Kid

Agnes Moorehead as Aunt Fanny Minafer in "The Magnificent Ambersons."

Agnes Moorehead as Velma in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

Gena Rowlands as Gloria

Richard Libertini as Jorge Medina, the Justice of the Peace, in "Best Friends."

"I dee en do."

Judy Geeson, Patricia Quinn, and Dee Wallace as the witches in Lords of Salem.

Jake Gyllenhaal as Detective Loki in Prisoners

[quote] No, [R199], we're listing roles that were so well cast and well performed that we can't picture anyone else in the role.

You sure have a lot of them!

You have posted more than 95 posts to this thread.

Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Legend says that Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe, but the description of Holly in the novella sounds just like AH. And of course it was a great performance.

Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler

Charles Durning as the Governor in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."

"Oooh, I dance a little sidestep..."

Helen Mirren in Exalibur

Robert Duvall and Farah Fawcett in The Apostle.

Samuel L. Jackson and Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight

Dennis Weaver as the Motel Night Manager in "Touch of Evil."

Audrey Hepburn is charming in the film, but she wasn't plausibly whorish enough to be perfect as Holly Golightly. Ca[pote was right: the perfect woman for the role would have been Marilyn (had she been up to it).

Pam Grier as Coffy

Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits.

Kathy Bates and Judy Parfitt in Dolores Claiborne

Nora Aunor in "The Flor Contemplacion Story."

Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny

Meredith Baxter-Birney as Betty Broderick

Tom Hardy in Venom

Joan Crawford as Vienna and Mercedes McCambridge as Emma in "Johnny Guitar."

Oh, course, Margaret Rutherford as Jane Marple. Time for me to watch Murder at the Gallop again and regain my sanity.

R226, the Holly of the novella was soigné, not whorish, asking men for powder room change and knowing all about horses and golf. People were shocked that she had made herself over from a backwoods orphan, which she began by studying Vogue. Doesn't sound like MM at all.

Guess you know more than the actual author of the novella did, r236.

Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl

Diane Ladd in Wild at Heart

Rick Moranis in Little Shop of Horrors

Steve Martin as C.D. Bales in "Roxanne."

Colin Farrell in In Bruges

Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern in Home Alone

Tom Hardy's rock hard nipples in Venom

Butterfly McQueen as Prissy in "Gone With the Wind."

Eric Roberts in "Star 80"

Everyone in "The Last Picture Show"

Everyone in "No Country for Old Men"

Malcolm McDowell as Caligula

Elizabeth Hartman as Selina and Shelley Winters as Rose-Ann in "A Patch of Blue."

R14 That would have been way more entertaining.

Meryl in She Devil

Debra Winger in Rachel Getting Married

Rose McGowan, Julie Benz, and Judy Greer in Jawbreaker

Carmen Phillips as Mary Smith [the apartment renter] in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies."

"I don't like being awake in the daytime."

Mickey Rourke, Lisa Bonet and Robert De Niro in Angel Heart

William Sadler as the Grim Reaper in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

Faye as Joan. Whether she likes it or not.

Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry Wrong Number

Thandie Newton as Beloved

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond.

Excuuuuuse me R259 did you not read the entire thread? Are you also R147? Are you? Hmm?

Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger

William Holden in Picnic.

Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger; I totally agree! David Bowie and Susan Sarandon also were great in the movie. It's still one of my favorites.

Alan Rickman as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies

James Mason and Sue Lyon in Lolita

Guy Pearce and Kevin Spacey in LA Confidential

Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success

Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Joe E Brown in Some Like It Hot

John Cusack in Say Anything

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Gene Kelly in Singin’ In the Rain

Peter O'Toole as Henry II, in Becket and The Lion in Winter.

Cathy Moriarty in Soapdish and Casper

Rebecca De Mornay in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

Angus Scrimm as the Tall Man in Phantasm

Julian Beck as Kane in Poltergeist II

Bette Midler in Ruthless People

Robert Downey Jr in Less Than Zero

Terry O’Quinn as The Stepfather

Michael Rooker in. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

(R33)

Lorraine Bracco as Karen Hill in Goodfellas

Joe Pesci as Tommy in Goodfellas

Sam Jackson as Ordell Robbie in Jackie Brown

Pam Grier as Jackie Brown in Jackie Brown

Richard Roundtree as Shaft

Tom Skerrit, Brad Pitt in "A River Runs Through It".

Tura Satana in Faster Pussycat Kill KIll

Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath

Fairuza Balk in The Craft

The entire ensemble of "Murder By Death". Everybody (even mute Nancy Walker) has a moment or line that people quote today.

Lainie Kazan as Belle Carroca in My Favorite Year.

R282 And just as memorable in the short-lived Broadway version a decade later, recorded for posterity on the cast album.

Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry

Rosalind Russell in "His Girl Friday."

James Garner in "The Americanization of Emily."

Peter O'Toole in "Lawrence of Arabia."

Jane Wyman in "So Big."

Vincent Price in "Theater of Blood." No one could act so badly so well as our dear Vincent.

**It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. Another vote for Hepburn and O'Toole in "The Lion in Winter."**

Ned Beatty in Deliverance.

I agree with 99% of these. But I think we are veering into great performances rather than great casting. I know they are related, but I think we were looking for a natural fit as opposed to a well done interpretation.

Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.

R287 I agree. I think most of the roles mentioned could have been played well by actors past and present. It’s now just a thread for people to list good performances or memorable characters.

Great casting and great performances:

Ronald Colman in “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Lost Horizon.”

Sam Jaffe in “Lost Horizon” and “Gunga Din.”

Audrey Hepburn in “War and Peace.”

Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison in “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.”

Rod Taylor and Alan Young in “The Time Machine.”

Yul Brynner in “The King and I.”

Rosalind Russell and Coral Browne in “ Auntie Mame.”

Laurence Olivier in “Wuthering Heights.”

Charles Laughton in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in “It Happened One Night.”

Gary Cooper in “High Noon.”

Kathy Bates in Misery

Blanche Yurka as Madame De Farge in "A Tale of Two Cities" opposite the best Sydney Carton ever, Ronald Colman, and fighting with the only person who could be Miss Pross, Edna May Oliver. (If it had been made later, Margaret Hamilton or Mary Wickes would have been terrific as her too, but EMO is a delight....)

Billie Burke as Millicent Jordan in "Dinner at Eight". She's scatterbrained, but it is more because she is frazzled (or "a little muzzled") over planning the dinner party. Her breakdown scene telling off Madge Evans was Oscar worthy!

Hepburn as Violet Venable in Suddenly, Last Summer. Hepburn as Mary Tyrone in Long Days Jouney Into Night. And the entire cast of The Last Of Shiela - Raquel Welch: What's Vuitton? Ian McShane: Expensive.

Everyone, but especially Gene Hackman and Gwyneth Paltrow, in “The Royal Tennenbaums””.:

Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones in “Coalminer’s Daughter”.

Oops, forgot to add Larry Hagman (no, I’m not kidding) in a small but pivotal role in “Primary Colors”.

JK Simmons as Vern in OZ

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler

Joan Crawford as Crystal Allen in, well, you know.

Rosalind Russell “ Auntie Mame.”

Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen in Kill Bill

Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line

Sofia Coppola in Godfather 3

Helen Lawson in Return to the Towering Inferno

Don Knotts in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.

I’m serious.

R303 has a heart as black as her teeth.

[quote]Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara

Fuck you, R13!

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, Joan Hickson as Marple, and David Suchet as Poirot. Each the definitive.

I love Margaret Rutherford, but her Marple is a burlesque.

Chevy Chase as Fletch

Liza in Cabaret.

John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich

Thelma Ritter is every movie she ever did.

Barbara Stanwyck in everything

Florence Bates as Mrs. Van Hopper in "Rebecca."

Faith Dane as Miss Mazeppa in "Gypsy" [1962].

Joanna Barnes as Gloria Upson in "Auntie Mame."

"Mums and Dadums and I went down to our place in Fort Lauderdale. We have a place in Fort Lauderdale."

"Really top drawer."

"It was ghastly. It was just [italic]ghastly[/italic].

Illeana Douglas as Roberta Allsworth - Ghost World (2001)

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi in "Ed Wood." The best casting of any role I've ever seen in any film.

Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in POPEYE (1980).

Paula Prentiss as Stella Dunnworthy in "The World of Henry Orient."

Paula Prentiss as Liz Bien in "What's New Pussycat."

Sandy Dennis as Honey in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Peter O'Toole as Eli Cross in "The Stunt Man."

“Scream” cast

“Raiders of the Lost Ark” cast

“L.A. Confidential” cast

“Boogie Nights” cast

“Parasite” cast

To name a few

Ona Munson owns this tread.

Deborah Rush as Brenda Dunck in "Compromising Positions."

Carol Kane in Ken Russell's "Valentino."

Geraldine Page as Alexandra Del Lago in "Sweet Bird of Youth."

Constance Ford as Sandra Dee's mother in "A Summer Place."

Bill Murray as Jeff In "Tootsie."

"You slut."

Hope Emerson as prison matron Evelyn Harper in "Caged."

The little girl with warm Gummi Bears on the bus at the end of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

Michael Fassbender's penis in "Shame."

r318 Ed Wood was my then 6 yr old daughters favorite movie. I had to get the video so she could watch it over and over.

It was a wonderful tribute for people who went to the beat of their own drummer. ML was wonderfully touching in his role as Bela

Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy

Cristina Ricci as Wednesday Addams.

Lesley Ann Warren as Norma Cassady in "Victor Victoria."

Sally Kellerman as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan in"M*A*S*H."

Giulietta Masina as Maria/Cabiria in "Nights of Cabiria."

Grayson Hall as Judith Fellowes in "The Night of the Iguana."

Dudley Moore as Arthur Bach in "Arthur."

James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd in "Harvey."

Harvey as Harvey in "Harvey,"

Strother Martin as the Captain in "Cool Hand Luke."

"What we've got here is failure to communicate."

Joy Harmon as the girl washing the car in "Cool Hand Luke."

("Oh, boy, she knows exactly what she's doing...)"

Kyle MacLachlan from David Lynch's work, and these work later typecast him for slightly twisted middle class guy/husband, thus his roles in Sex and the city, desperate housewives...

Shirley Booth and Paul Ford in The Matchmaker

Lionel Barrymore in The Devil-Doll

Lotte Lenya in Die 3 Groschen-Oper (The 3 Penny Opera)

Beatrice Lillie in On Approval

W.C. Fields in David Copperfield

To focus more narrowly on actors whose work doesn't on whole impress me...

Tobey Maguire and Katie Holmes in two fairly perfect films, The Ice Storm and Wonder Boys. And I'll add that Michael Douglas, usually somewhere between okay and perfectly adequate, was perfect in Wonder Boys.

Patricia Neal in The Fountainhead. If anybody could bring to something approaching life the cardboard characters of Ayn Rand, it was her.

Gary Cooper was too old, though.

A second vote for Shirley Booth and Paul Ford in The Matchmaker. Absolutely.

Helen Lawson in "Revenge of the Nun's Story."

Jayne Mansfield as the girl who can't help it (Jerri Jordan) in "The Girl Can't Help It."

Johnny Depp in "Edward Scissorhands."

Beyoncé as Deena Jones. She IS that character.

Chris Sarandon as Leon in "Dog Day Afternoon."

Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Daigle (Claude Daigle's mother) in "The Bad Seed."

Helen Lawson in "All My Yesterdays".

Helen Lawson in "All My Tomorrows."

George C. Scott in "Patton"

Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in "Romeo and Juliet"

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in "It Happened One Night"

Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel and Olivia De Havilland in "Gone With The WInd"

Boris Karloff in "Frankenstein"

Jean Harlow in "Dinner at Eight"

Rosalind Russell in "Mama

Rosalind Russell in "The Trouble With Angels"

Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry"

Al Pacino and Chris Sarandon in "Dog Day Afternoon"

Judi Dench in "Notes on a Scandal"

Alan Arkin in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming"

Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Estelle Parsons and Michael J. Pollard in "Bonnie and Clyde"

Anne Bancroft in "The Graduate"

Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Boogie Nights" and "Happiness"

Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard"

Peter Sellers in "Being There"

Cecily Tyson and Paul Winfield in "Sounder"

Edward Woodward in "Breaker Morant"

Toni Collette in "Muriel's Wedding"

Sigourney Weaver in "Alien" and Aliens"

Diane Keaton in "Annie Hall"

Robert De Niro in "The Godfather Pt. 2," "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver"

Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel in 'The Producers"

G in Fatal Attraction

Correction: make that Rosalind Russell in "Mame"

Oops. I guess if you want to nitpick it's "AUNTIE Mame.

Helen Lawson in "None of My Todays."

Michael Clark Duncan as John Coffey in the Green Mile

Britney Murphy as Daisy in Girl Interrupted

Gina Davis as Samantha in the Long Kiss Goodnight

Vincent D'onofrio as the monster /killer in The Cell

forgot - Brendan Frasier as George of the Jungle

Piper Laurie as Margaret White in Carrie

Robert Patrick, T-1000

[quote]Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Daigle (Claude Daigle's mother) in "The Bad Seed."

I'd add Eileen Heckart as Mrs. Baker in "Butterflies Are Free".

In fact, throw in Goldie and Edward Albert, too. The 3 of them really make the movie work.

R365, What about Starsky?

Faye as Joan

sublime

Beatrice Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak in the NBC TV series The Golden Girls

R368 signs her middle name on her checks when she buys groceries.