Actors who completely owned a character

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Micheal le Vell - Kevin Webster

 

[Tourist since 1971]

Robert Newton as Long John Silver. He bloody invented pirate speak!

 

[Scottyboi]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdhxL9r9hkg[/youtube]

Amazing character and one of the best and most underrated actors ever! IMO of course.

 

[bumbleblue]

Geoffrey Bayldon - Catweazle. loved this growing up in the 70s

 

[01cravend]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdhxL9r9hkg[/youtube]

Amazing character and one of the best and most underrated actors ever! IMO of course.

I think he's THE best of all time...Can't wait for Lincoln

 

[Scottyboi]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdhxL9r9hkg[/youtube]

Amazing character and one of the best and most underrated actors ever! IMO of course.

I think he's THE best of all time...Can't wait for Lincoln

He is in my eyes too, but the household names always get chosen over him. He spent weeks away from his family to get into character for gangs of new york and he nailed it, no one could of performed it better.

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

 

[johnny on the spot]

He was brilliant.

 

[Txiki Vimto]

Christoph Waltz and Brad Pitt - Inglorious Basterds

 

[Banshee]

Joaquin Pheonix in Walk the Line

 

[yerwot?]

Dustin Hoffman as Jack Crabb in Little Big Man, and Chief Dan George same film
James Stewart in Wonderful Life
Captain Mainwaring and Sgt Wilson, Arthur Lowe and John le Mesurier
Lee van Cleefe in the Good the Bad the Ugly
George Formby in On the Limit
Violet Carson as the one and only Ena
Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rod Steiger as Napoleon
John Wayne in The Searchers
Lorne Greene in Wagon Train
John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever and Grease
Olivia Newton-John as Sandy in Grease
Robin Williams in Good Mornin Viet Nam
Jimmy Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ron Moody as Fagin in Oliver Twist
The entire cast of Soap, every one of them peerless
Ted Danson as Sam Malone in cheers

 

[idahoblues]

R.Lee Ermey didn't just act Gunnery sergeant Hartman he "was" Gunnery sergeant Hartman.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUc62jD-G0o[/youtube]

I cried with laughter when I saw this bit, literally pumping tears out of my eyes and unable to get my breath. 'Are you a peanut popper, do you such dicks? Bull shit I bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose'. Fucking hahaha!!

Quite simply 30 min or so of beautiful mayhem, love this guy and he plays it to perfection.

Rumour has it: he fucked off a true-to-life U.S. Marine Gunnery Sargeant for the role.

he was a real marine drill sargent in his earlier days

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

I always thought Russell Crowe was the dogs bollocks in Gladiator.

 

[Tourist since 1971]

Joaquin Pheonix in Walk the Line

I thought Johnny Cash just had the edge over him.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Sean Connery as a Scottish captain of a Russian submarine in The Hunt for Red October

Sean Connery as a Scottish Spaniard in Highlander

Sean Connery as a Scottish ex pat Irish policeman in The Untouchables

 

[Txiki Vimto]

Ricky Gervais as David Brent.

 

[didactic]

Denzel Washington - Training day.

Al Pacino - Scarface, Devils Advocate.

Joe Pesci - Goodfellas, Casino.

Robert Deniro - Casino, Godfather, Deer Hunter.

Eddie Murphy - Coming to America.

Samuel L Jackson - Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction.

 

[cvetan]

Heath Ledger- The Joker

 

[jimmybarnesblue]

Cant believe nobody has said this yet as its a city forum but it has to be Summerbee in Esacpe to victory... surely?

 

[mcfc_ms]

Not a film, but Daniel Mays in ashes to ashes as DCI Keats