Feel free to add and criticize:
H. Bogart- Casablanca
A. Hopkins- Silence of the Lambs
H. Ford- Raiders of the Lost Ark
C. Chase- Vacation
E. Murphy- Beverly Hills Cop
D. Moore- Arthur
B. Willis- Die Hard
C. Eastwood- Dirty Harry
J. Roberts- Pretty Woman
P. Newman- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
D. Hoffman- The Graduate
Discuss!
I always associate Paul Newman with The Hustler.
Hoffman will always be Toostsie to me. Though The Graduate may be more appropriate.
As for my picks…
Pacino- The Godfather
Pesci- Goodfellas
Walter Mathau- The Odd Couple
Sissy Spacek- Carrie
Sharon Stone- Basic Instinct
John Cusak- Say Anything
John Belushi- Animal House
Schwarzenegger - Terminator
Sigourney Weaver - Alien
Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
Tom Cruise - Top Gun
Nicholson - The Shining
Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction (it would’ve been nice to see him in Phantom Menace throw out, “Feel the force, mother fucker!”)
Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in “Goodfellas”
John Travolta as Vincent Vega in “Pulp Fiction”
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in “The Doors”
Mel Gibson - Lethal Weapon
sylvester Stallone - Rocky (I’ve never even seen a Rocky movie…)
Anthony Perkins - Psycho
At random…
Cary Grant - North by Northwest
John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever
Meg Ryan - When Harry Met Sally
Winona Ryder - Reality Bites
Cher - Moonstruck
Michael Douglas - Fatal Attraction
Keanu Reeves - Bill & Ted
Gene Hackman - French Connection
Michael Keaton - Beetlejuice
Jeff Goldblum - The Fly
Jim Carrey - Ace Ventura
Robert Shaw - Jaws
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
Christian Slater - Heathers
Kevin Bacon - everything 
Jackie Chan: Drunken Master 2
Jet Li: Fist of Legend
Donnie Yen: Iron Monkey
Chow Yun Fat: Hard Boiled
Michelle Yeoh: Wing Chun
Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon
Sonny Chiba: The Street Fighter
Boris Karloff: Frankenstein
Jean-Claude Van Damme: Bloodfist
Arnold Shawarzenegger: The Terminator
Sharon Cuneta: Maging Sino Ka Man
Bela Lugosi: Dracula
Errol Flynn: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.: The Thief of Baghdad
Buster Keaton: The General
Leonardo De Caprio: Titanic
Robert Deniro: Taxi Driver
Al Pacino: The Godfather
Marlon Brando: The Godfather
James Caan: The Godfather
Tom Cruise: Top Gun (The Mrs. says Mission Impossible)
Gene Hackman: The Conversation
William Hurt: Altered States
Kathleen Turner: Body Heat
Eddie Murphy: Beverly Hills Cop
Morgan Freeman: Seven
Clark Gable: Gone With the Wind
Bruce Campbell - The Evil Dead Series. Seriously I’ve never ever seen him referred to in any other film.
Heh. But if I had to say just one, I’d go with Footloose.
Jackie Chan: Rush Hour (U.S. Only)
Chow Yun Fat: Crouching Tiger (U.S. Only)
Michelle Yeoh: Ditto
Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon
Jean-Claude Van Damme: Kickboxer
Arnold Shawarzenegger: The Terminator
Errol Flynn: The State of California vs. Flynn
Leonardo De Caprio: Titanic
Robert Deniro: Raging Bull
Al Pacino: The Godfather
Marlon Brando: The Godfather
James Caan: Honeymoon in Vegas (j.j.-The Godfather)
Tom Cruise-Early Years : Top Gun
The Scientalogist Pod who replaced Tom Cruise- M.I. 2
Gene Hackman: The French Connection
Kathleen Turner: Romancing the Stone
Morgan Freeman: Shawshank
Clark Gable: Gone With the Wind
Mark Hamill - Star Wars
Molly Ringworm - 16 Candles
Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird…
Tom Cruise - Risky Business more than Top Gun for me
Hugh Grant - Four Weddings
Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient
Liam Neeson - Schindler’s List
Ben Kingsley - Ghandi
Ewan McGregor - Trainspotting
Christopher Lambert - Highlander
Patrick Swayze - Dirty Dancing
Kevin Costner - The Untouchables
Charlie Sheen - Platoon
Liza Minelli - Cabaret
Bette Davis - “All About Eve”
Clark Gable - “GWTW”
Judy Garland - “The Wizard of Oz”
Carole Lombard - “My Man Godfrey”
Peter Lorre - “M”
Boris Karloff - “Frankenstein”
Peter O’Toole - “Lawrence of Arabia”
Charlton Heston - “The Ten Commandments”
Marlon Brando part 1 - “A Streetcar Named Desire”
Marlon Brando part 2 - “The Godfather”
Christopher Reeves - “Superman”
Sissy Spaceck- Carrie
Michael J. Fox- Back to the Future series
Keanu Reeves- Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (I think it sums up his whole persona as an actor…)
Sam Neill- Jurassic Park
Matthew Broderick- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Kiefer Sutherland- Flashback
Keifer Sutherland - Lost Boys (Where has he been lately?)
Jimmy Stewart - Philadephia Story
Kevin Spacey - Usual Suspects
Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive ( Though I’ve loved you Tommy since an unknown film of Nate & Hayes)
This summarized Tom Cruise brilliantly.
Shirley Ujest- He’s in the new FOX TV show (don’t know what’s happened to it, though), “24.”
What about Tom Hanks? He’s tough. Here are a few candidates:
Bachelor Party
Big
Sleepless in Seattle
Philadelphia
Gump
Saving Private Ryan
You’ve Got Mail
The Burbs
I go Gump.