Actors whom you'll always think of in one particular role, and the role.

[Orrex]

Steve Buscemi: Mr. Pink

[TZ]

1. Well gosh this is easy

Patrick Stewart: Jean-Luc Picard. Duh.

[rcrush]

47. CAPTAIN Jean Luc Picard of The Starship Enterprise.

You have to say his WHOLE NAME when you speak of him!

[Deja Q]

104. Ed O'Neill. Al Bundy.

[Swede]

2. William Shatner - James T. Kirk

[Dr. Strange]

3. Larry Linville

[Orrex]

5. Good one!

[Lost in CT]

4. Phoebe Cates.... Fast Times at Ridgemont High

[Critters2]

12. Saw her on the red carpet at the Oscars. She hasn't aged a minute.

Bitch.

[Nevernose]

18. I won a trivia contest with that question once!

Last year on an Alaskan cruise ship, my mom and I entered a trivia contest. Out of a couple hundred people, I was the only one to name Phoebe Cates as the topless girl from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. These people clearly had no idea what a profound impact she had on my adolescence...

[MrScorpio]

37. I found out in 1987 that she's a national hero in the Philippines

Go figure

[sammythecat]

6. On a side note:

I'll bet "Stuck in the Middle with You" by Steelers Wheel never sounded quite the same again after viewing Mr. Blonde's scene with the cop. Instant flashback whenever I hear that song.

[RagAss]

7. The late, great Don Knotts

http://api.ning.com/files/z1gSRITMYyCmWoT5UnFEvgLUzJPnG... *F18qudVaYg0ZF-4YovrqGOH*Mh2fcAOE1TTuaYScUCK6*LW5/Barney_Fife.jpg

[Orrex]

10. I was thinking of The Incredible Mr. Limpet, but whatever

[Shell Beau]

13. That's true. Who doesn't think of Barney Fife when they think of Don Knotts?

[Art_from_Ark]

121. Well, I think of Barney Fife

but I also think of The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

[RagAss]

8. The late, great Don Knotts

[Shell Beau]

9. Marlon Brando. Don Corleone. He has been in lots, but he is always Corleone

when I think of him.

[femmocrat]

11. Carrol O'Connor

Archie Bunker

[BeachBaby]

14. Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of The Lambs.

[NOW tense]

50. Agreed. n/t

[av8rdave]

59. Maybe it's because Silence of the Lambs didn't do much for me...

I think of him in several great roles. I thought he was incredible in Oliver Stone's "Nixon" (10 minutes into the film you totally forgot that he looks nothing like Nixon), and I loved his performance as Burt Munroe in "The World's Fastest Indian."

[redqueen]

108. For me he is Mr Stevens, from The Remains of the Day. (nt)

[timtom]

111. Anthony Perkins

"Psycho"

[flvegan]

15. Pauly Shore: dumbass.

[AlCzervik]

16. Eric Roberts-Paul Snider

Gene Hackman-Popeye Doyle

Roy Scheider-Chief Martin Brody

[Orrex]

17. Excellent call on Eric Roberts

The first thing I ever saw Hackman in was Superman, so I always see a little bit of Lex Luthor in his performances, however asinine that might be.

Good call also on Scheider.

[Left Is Write]

28. I always think of Eric Roberts from his role in The Pope Of Greenwich Village...

because that's the first movie I saw him in.

[omega minimo]

34. Eric Roberts -- "King of the Gypsies"

Great film with a vital ER and a baby Brooke Sheilds.

[Mike 03]

107. Fantastic observation about Eric Roberts. That role nearly killed him, and

Mariel Hemingway didn't have much good to say about her experience either portraying Dorothy Stratten.

Fosse was a fascinating director. He really liked to inflict pain. Genius/Sadist.

He made Roberts live at the house where the homicide happened during shooting.

[SeattleGirl]

19. Gregory Peck: Atticus Finch

[Orrex]

27. But Brock Peters will always be Admiral Cartright.

Go figure!

[x-g.o.p.er]

106. Gen Savage in '12:00 High'

Never got into TKAM movie. I loved the book, but not the movie as much.

[applegrove]

128. Absolutely!

[XemaSab]

20. Gary Cole: Lucas Buck. Yeah.

[Shell Beau]

22. OR Gary Coleman as Arnold on Diff'rent Strokes.

[Dr. Strange]

73. Whatchoo talkin' bout Shell Beau?

[Pierre.Suave]

21. Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig

James Bond.

[Orrex]

25. Pierce Brosnan will always be Remington Steele to me

I didn't even particularly like the series, but after the contract flap that prevented him from Bonding, the role is stuck in my head.

[AlCzervik]

26. absolutely, i never bought him as Bond ecause of that.

[Pierre.Suave]

39. I have never seen that show

Either...

[AlCzervik]

44. that might have been before your time and i don't think it was in syndication

for very long after it's demise.

[elshiva]

23. Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page, in "The Notorious Bettie Page."

[DeepBlueC]

24. Mira Sorvino: Mighty Aphrodite

Every time I see her in something else I'm waiting for that voice to pop out. I can hardly remember the estimable Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion which had set the Sorvino standard for me earlier.

[AwakeAtLast]

55. I can only see her as Romy

[Left Is Write]

29. Jason Alexander = George Costanza

[av8rdave]

61. He played a rather sinister attorney in "Jacob's Ladder"

It was a great performance.

[TroglodyteScholar]

69. I prefer to think of Alexander as Duckman

THAT was quality TV....

[geardaddy]

88. Yes.

Definitely.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. Frances McDormand - Marge Gunderson from "Fargo."

[geardaddy]

89. "I think I'm gahnna baarf."

[Doc_Technical]

31. Brian Donlevy

as Sgt. Markoff in "Beau Geste"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031088/

[Manifestor_of_Light]

32. Leslie Howard -- Ashley Wilkes (GWTW)

A full blooded Hungarian Jew born in England.

He will be forever cool thanks to the magic of film.

[ccharles000]

33. ...

Hal Sparks-michael from Queer as Folk

[Lucian]

35. I'll always remember Steve Buscemi as one of the bad guys in "Fargo".

He can do a million other projects, but I'll always remember him in that particular role.

[Rhythm]

81. And i immediately think of "Mr. Pink"

and his diatribe about not tipping...

[hibbing]

36. Mark Hamill

Hi,
Luke Skywalker I guess mostly because he hasn't been in much else that I can think of. Interesting topic, thanks.

Peace

[keroro gunsou]

64. he does voice over work now

and he's damn good at it. i love his rendition of the joker in the batman animated series from the 90's

also, michael ansara as mister freeze is just perfect.

took me a while, but michael rosenbaum as wally west sorta grew on me, he definately captured wally's whole attitude when he started out as the flash. still, i'd like to see how he would have handled playing a kyle rayner version of the green lantern....

[JenaLaw]

38. Robert Guillaume = Benson...

I grew up on SOAP and Benson. As an adult, I finally got tickets to see 'Phantom of the Opera' on Broadway, and he was cast as the Phantom. Great job, really nice singing voice...but I kept waiting for him to take a fall over a prop or something. Kind of ruined the show for me

[Forkboy]

40. Brad Pitt as Mickey in Snatch.

You like dags?

[TroglodyteScholar]

70. Save yer breath for coolin yer porridge! n/t

[Forkboy]

78. One of the most quotable movies in the last couple decades.

I make sure to watch it about every six months.

[IcyPeas]

41. Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious

[OmahaBlueDog]

42. Alec Guinness: The entire D'Ascoyne family in "Kind Hearts and Coronets"

Edward Fox as the Jackal in "The Day of the Jackal"

Anthony Quinn as Bombolini in "The Secret of Santa Vittoria"

Sean Astin as "Rudy"

[justgamma]

43. Adam West. He could never be anything but

Batman.

[rcrush]

45. Brendan Fraiser is Encino Man.

He will always be Encino Man.

[MorningGlow]

46. Colin Firth - Mr. Darcy

Tim Curry - Dr. Frank N. Furter

Dame Judy Dench - Queen Elizabeth (yeah, all five minutes of her role)

Others, I'm sure...lemme think a bit more...

[seaker]

48. Clark Gable as Rhett Butler

In point of fact, the entire GWTW cast, except Leslie Howard...He was never a substantial enough screen presence for the role

[emilyg]

66. Yes!

[kimmerspixelated]

103. ABsolutely!

[graywarrior]

49. Alan Rickman....Snape

[keroro gunsou]

65. alan rickman

as hans gruber....

"no mrs. mcclain, i am an EXCEPTIONAL theif. and since i'm moving up to kidnapping, you'd best behave."

though i admit having read the books, i cannot see anyone else as snape... though i did entertain thoughts of david bowie as professor gilderoy lockhart... kenneth branaugh stole the show in that film.... i wish they had more of him in it... lockhart's character is hysterical. and for some odd reason i had rowan atkinson for the minister of magic cornelius fudge in my head... and chris barrie (rimmer from red dwarf) as stan shunpike.... too bad the role of kingsley shacklebolt was so serious, lenny henry mighta been funny taking a turn at it.

[SoxFan]

71. I always pictured Hugh Grant as Lockhart

He's a natural-born fop. Probably too natural. Brannagh played against his usual type and was brilliant.

Bowie as Lockhart is an interesting thought. I don't know if he can pull off a comedic role.

If Andre Braugher could pull off the accent, he'd make a kick-ass Shacklebolt. Frank Pembleton with spells.

[keroro gunsou]

77. yeah that's another one... or more

i cannot see anyone else as pembleton, braugher brought him to life.

also, no one can replace richard belzer as munch... or jerry orbach as lennie briscoe

[WannaBeGrumpy]

86. Snape = Alan Rickman = Love

[oregonjen]

102. Have you seen this video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlVXvZUTjIs

I know he's in his sixties, but wow!

[WannaBeGrumpy]

113. Yeah! I love it and the song. My Aunt told me on my birthday last year...

that she had the best present and proceeded to pull that up on the internet and i almost fainted of hotness.

He's pertty much old enough to be my grandfather...but oh well

[XemaSab]

124. Rowling claims she didn't intend for Snape to be hot

but at the same time, she's the one who had Rickman cast even though he's technically about 25 years too old for the part.

Jo, you're fooling nobody.

[RushIsRot]

51. Fess Parker as Davy Crockett

[yellowdogintexas]

52. Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale (Wizard of Oz)

and for that matter, Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow


Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce

James Garner as Maverick


Charlton Heston as Moses

Yul Brynner as the King of Siam

Julie Andrews as Maria Von Trapp even though I prefer Victor, Victoria

Dick Van Dyke as Rob Petrie

[Shell Beau]

60. For sure with Dorothy (Garland)!

[WinkyDink]

53. Basil Rathbone = Sherlock Holmes; Sean C. = James Bond; Sly = "Rocky".

[Mutley]

54. Judd Nelson

The Breakfast Club

[AwakeAtLast]

56. Mary McDonnell as Stands With a Fist in "Dances With Wolves"

I know she's great on BSG, but I will always see her in that movie.

[lunatica]

57. Bo Derrick in 10

[av8rdave]

62. That's the first film I think of when I think of Dudley Moore, too

[BlueIris]

58. David Schwimmer, Ross Gellar.

And that's not a good thing.

[keroro gunsou]

63. tom baker

the 4th doctor

ian mckellan = gandalf

christopher lee = saruman, it's christopher lee, 'nuff said.

colm meany = chief miles edward o'brien, the much put-upon every guy in the trek universe

michael dorn = the weasel, from i am weasel

ewan mcgregor = young obi wan... ok as bad as the three-quals were, he did own that role.

kevin spacey = the dad from american beauty

[csziggy]

67. William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles - The Thin Man

And all the rest in the series. I saw them recently in "Libeled Lady" with Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow and just kept seeing Powell and Loy as Nick and Nora instead the characters they were supposed to be playing.

[TroglodyteScholar]

68. Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski

[SoxFan]

72. Andre Braugher: Frank Pembleton

[LanternWaste]

74. Anthony Hopkins - Shadowlands

Anthony Hopkins - Shadowlands

[Tommy_Carcetti]

75. I'll always think of Steve Buscemi as Carl Showalter in Fargo...

"How the fuck do you split a car, ya dummy? With a fuckin' chainsaw?"

[Sebastian Doyle]

125. Yeah, that was a great line

not so great results for poor Carl though.

[Rambis]

76. Anybody from the Breakfast club

as their character especially Bender-

[LittleClarkie]

79. Sometimes it's how I think of the role as well

Jeff Goldblum as Ernie Kovacks

Gary Bussie as Buddy Holly

It's like I didn't fall in love with Ernie Kovacks. I fell in love with Ernie Kovacks as played by Jeff Goldblum. Ya know?

[jobycom]

80. Poor old Paul Rubens will never escape Pee Wee Herman. nt

[ceile]

82. Tony Shalhoub - Monk

Sara Gilbert - Darlene

[Bake]

97. See, I think of Tony as the guy in Wings ...

But he's a great actor!!

Bake

[redqueen]

109. For me, Tony Shalhoub is Tech Sergeant Chen.

He's also Monk, but mostly Tech Sergeant Chen.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

83. Richard Boone = Paladin

[FloridaJudy]

84. Leonard Nimoy will always be Spock

Come to think of it, the entire cast of the original ST - Shatner, Takei, Kelley, Nichols and Koenig to name the most famous - were linked with those roles for the rest of their careers.

[keroro gunsou]

100. walter koenig

did a wonderful job as a nasty, amoral, psi cop in babylon 5, the role was a complete 180 from the nice guy that chekov was portrayed as. so much so, the mere hint that he was in an episode was seen as shit hitting the fan.

[Orrex]

101. That's true, but he's still Chekhov first, psi-guy second

Just like Shatner got his Emmy for Boston Legal, but he's still Kirk.

[Strong Atheist]

85. John Wayne

The good guy.

[elfrangel]

87. Erroll Flynn = Robin Hodd

Olivia de Haviland = Maid Marian/Melanie in GWTW
Rosalind Russell = Auntie Mame
Gene Kelly = Don Lockwood (Singin' in the Rain)
Debbie Reynolds = Tammy (Tammy and the Bachelor)
Val Kilmer = Mad Martigan (Willow)
Viggo Mortenson = Aragorn
Keanu Reeves = Neo (Matrix)/ Alex (Lake House)
Sandra Bullock = Birdee (Hope Floats)

I have more, but...I should be cleaning. LOL

[geardaddy]

90. Alan Alda

Hawkeye Pierce.

[geardaddy]

91. Peter Stormare=Gaear Grimsrud

[Tommy_Carcetti]

92. Where is pancakes house?

We stop at pancakes house.

[geardaddy]

93. We had pancakes for breakfast, man!

I wanna go somewhere where I can get a steak and a shot and beer.

[geardaddy]

94. Keanu Reeves

Bill or Ted. I don't remember which.

[redqueen]

95. Bruce Campbell - Ash from Evil Dead.

I love him in Burn Notice, and I loved Brisco County, Jr.

But he'll always be associated with Ash first in my mind.

[geardaddy]

96. Bob Denver = Gilligan

Bob Crane = Col. Hogan
Joe Pesci = Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas
Pretty much the entire cast of M*A*S*H as their characters.

[Bake]

98. James Gandalfini => Tony Soprano

And I've seen him in other things (The Last Castle, e.g.), but he'll always be Tony Soprano.

Bake

[Va Lefty]

99. Sarah Michelle Gellar

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

[kimmerspixelated]

105. Dare I say it-Capt. Jack Sparrow!-JDEPP!

No one else could ever play it his way!

[Bucky]

116. Naw. Him I'll always think of as the pretty detective from "21 Jump Street"

[x-g.o.p.er]

110. Christopher Lloyd as Jim Ignatowski in Taxi

[Montauk6]

112. James Daly: "WILLOUGHBY!... Next stop is WILLOUGHBY!"

(Not that he was the conductor but I always make the association)

Nichelle Nichols - Lt. Uhura (even when she was the bad-ass madam in "Truck Turner")

William Devane - John F. Kennedy

Wilfred Brambell - Paul McCartney's grandfather

Dr. Haing S. Ngor - Dith Pran

Frank Langella - Dracula

Blossom Rock - Grandmamma Addams

Eva Gabor - Lisa Douglas

Anna Paquin - Flora McGrath

Penny Marshall - Laverne DeFazio

Sir John Gielgud - Hobson

Steve Martin - Navin Johnson

[mtnester]

114. Phylicia Rashad = Claire Huxtable

[friedgreentomatoes]

115. Apart from the 4 main characters of Fargo....

...which I find mentioned here more than any other single film, I have to go with Arnold as Terminator

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

117. Burgess Meredith:

[Wetzelbill]

118. Larry Hagman: JR Ewing, Val Kilmer: Doc Holliday

I better just stop before I get started...

[Art_from_Ark]

123. I always think of Larry Hagman as "Master"

And Barbara Eden will always be "Jeannie"

[charlie and algernon]

119. Martin Sheen IS Jed Bartlett

[northernlights]

120. Katherine Hepburn as

Katherine Hepburn

[Wetzelbill]

127. I almost said Eleanor of Aquitaine

But she had so many great roles you can't think of her in just one. She wasn't defined by a role, she defined every role that she had.

[Broken_Hero]

122. Obviously, Christopher Reeve

as Superman....

Henry Winkler as the Fonz....

Adam West-Batman

Christian Bale aka Patrick Bateman

Harrison Ford-Han Solo

Steve Buscemi aka Mr. Pink

Viggio Mortenson-Strider aka Aragorn...

there is a lot....

[sarge43]

126. Humphrey Bogart: Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon.

[Art_from_Ark]

129. Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett

Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
Patrick McNee as Steed
Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink
Richard Dawson as Corporal Newkirk
Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster
Robert Conrad as James West
Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon