# Actors and Actresses Signature Film
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 9, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433 "2001-10-09T22:56:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/1 "2001-10-09T22:56:40Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@frock75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frock75)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2001, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/2 "2001-10-09T23:32:15Z")
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
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### Author:  [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/3 "2001-10-10T00:36:25Z")
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!”)
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### Author:  [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/4 "2001-10-10T00:44:31Z")
Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in “Goodfellas”
John Travolta as Vincent Vega in “Pulp Fiction”
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in “The Doors”
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/5 "2001-10-10T01:03:14Z")
Mel Gibson - Lethal Weapon
sylvester Stallone - Rocky (I’ve never even seen a Rocky movie…)
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### Author:  [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/6 "2001-10-10T01:09:08Z")
Anthony Perkins - Psycho
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### Author:  [@Skijumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skijumper)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/7 "2001-10-10T02:21:07Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Spoonbender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoonbender)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/8 "2001-10-10T02:25:48Z")
Robert Shaw - _Jaws_
Kenneth Branagh - _Henry V_
Christian Slater - _Heathers_
Kevin Bacon - everything 🙂
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### Author:  [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/9 "2001-10-10T03:07:18Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/10 "2001-10-10T09:19:28Z")
**Bruce Campbell** - The Evil Dead Series. Seriously I’ve never _ever_ seen him referred to in any other film.
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### Author:  [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/11 "2001-10-10T14:07:12Z")
> [@](#):
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> Kevin Bacon - everything
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
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/12 "2001-10-10T14:26:42Z")
Mark Hamill - Star Wars
Molly Ringworm - 16 Candles
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/13 "2001-10-10T15:16:29Z")
Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird…
Tom Cruise - Risky Business more than Top Gun for me
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### Author:  [@Skijumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skijumper)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/14 "2001-10-10T16:47:20Z")
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
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### Author:  [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/15 "2001-10-10T22:36:58Z")
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”
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/16 "2001-10-10T23:39:49Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/17 "2001-10-11T02:04:11Z")
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)
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/18 "2001-10-11T02:06:14Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*\*
> Tom Cruise-Early Years : Top Gun
> The Scientalogist Pod who replaced Tom Cruise- M.I. 2
> \*\*
This summarized Tom Cruise brilliantly.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/19 "2001-10-11T02:51:37Z")
**Shirley Ujest** - He’s in the new FOX TV show (don’t know what’s happened to it, though), “24.”
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### Author:  [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-and-actresses-signature-film/86433/20 "2001-10-11T03:01:17Z")
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.
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