# Actors that will always be that one particular role for you, no matter what. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2014, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027 "2014-10-11T07:22:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/81 "2014-10-16T14:15:13Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#): > > Oh, right, I forgot this board has spoiler tags. > > Kevin Spacey IS Keyser Soze I watched an interview with Byrne once where he was quite serious in his belief that it was he who was KS. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/82 "2014-10-16T14:25:13Z")
> [@JesterX](#): > > I have a really obscure one. On Law and Order, S. Epatha Merkerson played Lt. Van Buren for YEARS. But before they introduced that character, she played a crackhead on the same show a season or two before. For all the time she was Van Buren, I was always in awe of the transformation she made from that crackhead, but I still saw a little of it in her. To me she’s always been Reba the Mail Lady from the Peewee Herman show. Hijack: speaking of Peewee I was surprised to see him playing an underworld type guy on the Blacklist these last few weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/83 "2014-10-16T14:29:55Z")
No mention of Richard Belzer’s John Munch? ---
**Author:** ![Hammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bc79bd/32.png) [@Hammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hammer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/84 "2014-10-17T03:42:08Z")
Alan Rickman will always be Hans F’in Gruber to me. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/85 "2014-10-17T04:04:40Z")
Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/86 "2014-10-17T07:54:07Z")
I can’t take _Rocky_ movies seriously. Sylvester Stallone would be such a kick ass henchman that I can’t imagine the Penguin wasting his potential by turning him into a boxing champ. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/87 "2014-10-17T07:56:19Z")
And no matter how many people ever join Team Jacob, Taylor Lautner will still be Shark Boy. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/88 "2014-10-17T08:02:19Z")
And Dave Foley will always be the guy with a good attitude about menstruation. John Cleese in any role is just the guy with the dead parrot playing the role. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/89 "2014-10-17T15:49:00Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > To me she’s always been Reba the Mail Lady from the Peewee Herman show. See, we watched that show when I was in college. And we were always high when we did. As a result, I have no memory of this role for S. Epatha Merkerson. Stay away from drugs, kids! _The more you know!_ ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/90 "2014-10-17T15:52:19Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Keanu Reeves as Bill in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”. Ditto. That made his role in \*Dangerous Liaisons \*unintentionally hilarious. I kept mentally appending “…dude” to the end of every declarative line. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/91 "2014-10-17T16:07:22Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Ditto. > > That made his role in \*Dangerous Liaisons \*unintentionally hilarious. I kept mentally appending “…dude” to the end of every declarative line. I’m the same way with Hugo Weaving. No matter what role he plays, I keep adding “… Mr. Anderson” to every line he speaks. ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/92 "2014-10-17T17:05:59Z")
Speaking of the Godfather, Abe Vagoda is always FISH — he’s FISH playing a role in the Godfather he’s not Tessio who betrayed the Godfather, he’s FISH and he’s not dead yet. Larry David is always Larry David. _And the Seinfeld curse:_ Wayne Knight is always Newman John O’Hurley is always Peterman Michael Richards is forever Kramer Jason Alexander, well that’s George Castanza Even Julia Louis Dreyfus - there’s a lot of Elaine in Selina Meyer ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/93 "2014-10-17T17:58:02Z")
Peter Boyle had numerous film roles, most notably the monster in “Young Frankenstein,” but I’ll always remember him as Raymond’s dad, Frank. Holy crap! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/94 "2014-10-17T19:32:50Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I can’t think of an example that meets the guidelines you’ve set up, because I’m laughing too hard at this one. > > Coffee up the nose, ow. > > I will say that Nathan Fillion will always be…Captain Tightpants. Even though it’s been a few years, and so on. One of the reasons I loved **Castle** is that it made several mentions of his character on Firefly, Capt Malcolm Reynolds. In the first **Castle** Halloween episode, he wore his ‘space cowboy’ costume. Fillion played a doctor (very well) in the movie ‘Waitress’. When he wore his white doctor coat and moved quickly, I expected to see his six shooter strapped to his leg. ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/95 "2014-10-18T09:18:40Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#): > > I had to stop myself from posting the one that came to mind immediately for me, because it would be a MASSIVE SPOILER. So, instead, I’ll go with an easy one…Heath Ledger is The Joker. I caught some of 10 Things I Hate About You on cable a while ago and feared for poor Julia Stile’s safety. > [@terentii](#): > > No, Cesar Romero is and always will be! 🆒 You are BOTH wrong. [Mark Hamill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hamill) is The Joker and that’s that. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/96 "2014-10-18T11:30:53Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > That made his role in Dangerous Liaisons unintentionally hilarious. I kept mentally appending “…dude” to the end of every declarative line. > > I’m the same way with Hugo Weaving. No matter what role he plays, I keep adding “… Mr. Anderson” to every line he speaks. I’ve said before that, no matter what William Daniels says, I then hear a comma, followed by a condescending _“Michael.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/97 "2014-10-18T14:44:43Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Ray Liotta will always be Another World’s Joey Perrine for me. No, Ray Liotta will always be [Henry Hill](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW-CdV9XKEM)… whether he’s in a sharkskin suit in Brooklyn, in dark blue pinstripes at the best table at Vesuvius Restaurant, or just slumming with the guys after the clubs at the hotdog trucks by Branchburg Park. > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > No mention of Richard Belzer’s John Munch? Nope. He’ll always be the guy who even HBO wouldn’t give a comedy special. “…but we’ve gotta do something with him; he’s connected.” “Toss him into something on NBC & see if it sticks.” ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/98 "2014-10-18T14:47:00Z")
Elyes Gabel shows up on TV fairly frequently, but for me he will always be Guppy from _Casualty_ ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/99 "2014-10-18T15:37:21Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’ve said before that, no matter what William Daniels says, I then hear a comma, followed by a condescending _“Michael.”_ “Mr. Feeny, Mr. Feeny!!” ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027/100 "2014-10-19T19:05:28Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > No, Cesar Romero is and always will be! 🆒 I’m not saying only Heath could be The Joker, rather that he couldn’t be anything else. Which is awkward to say without adding “…assuming he had lived.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-will-always-be-that-one-particular-role-for-you-no-matter-what/701027.md?page=6)