Gene Wilder will always be Willy Wonka.
William Petersen will always be Gil Grissom.
Yes, he’ll always be that for me, too. The role of a lifetime, and he totally nailed it.
I guess R. Lee Ermey is just too easy, huh?
Joe Pesci’s done some other good work but he’s always a variation of Tommy DeVito to me.
And no matter what he’s doing - and he’s done a lot - whenever I see Bill Paxton, I expect him to start flipping out and screaming “Game over, man! Game over! The fuck are we gonna do now? What’re we gonna do?”
I’m not sure why, but I seem to remember his screaming pretty much the same thing in every movie he’s in.
Which reminds me that I’ll always remember Norman Lloyd as the kind hearted doctor dying of cancer on the same series.
And I can’t think why I can’t come up with either of their characters’ names, but I can picture them and even hear them clear as a bell.
this is our independence day!
See, I do it with character actors whose names I can’t remember.
Like Stephen Tobolowsky (i just looked this up) who has been in a ton of shows; he was in Heroes and I could never remember his character’s name so I just referred to him as the “Remember Sammy” guy (from Momento).
Another one is Wes Studi. He played Magua on Last of the Mohicans and I think if I saw him in real life, I’d faint from fright; he was so perfect in that role.
Without looking them up I can tell you that Daniels was Dr. Mark Craig and Lloyd played Dr. Auschlander. I wish MeTV or one of the other retro networks would pick up this show.
Of course, Danny Trejo IS Machete.
Again, maybe too easy.
Jeff Bridges is an incredibly accomplished actor, but I always feel like it’s right there under the surface…
ROOSTER COGBURN
I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith, at Judge Parker’s convenience. Which will you have?
NED PEPPER
I call that bold talk… for a one eyed fat man!
ROOSTER COGBURN
That rug really tied the room together, man!
I’m surprised no one mentioned Sir Alec Guinness. Despite his body of work, for younger generations he will be only Obi-Wan Kenobi, as even another actor playing the character impersonated him.
Michael Crawford – The Phantom of the Opera
And Ted Neely and Carl Anderson made a career out of playing Superstar’s Jesus & Judas.
A fact which, if someone could figure out how to hook him up to a generator, could power Britain for generations to come…
If he isn’t being John Adams (or Sam Adams, or John Quincy Adams – Daniels had a Lock on the Adams dynasty), he was Carter Nash/Captain Nice.
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I’m sorry to learn that you are one of the many sufferers of Paxton-Pullman Syndrome. 
I believe there are now special prescription lenses available for that.
Except for the few that were well known beforehand (David Schwimmer, Jimmy Fallon, Dale Dye) everyone in Band of Brothers is that guy from Band of Brothers. I don’t care how many awards he gets for Homeland, Damian Lewis is Major Dick Winters. Goes for all the rest of them too.
Jimmy Fallon?
Then I’m too old, because to me, he’ll always be George Smiley, even though he did Smiley after “Star Wars!”
Well, The Wizard of Oz cemented most of the main actors in my mind as their roles in that movie… not Judy Garland, but certainly I will always think of Bert Lahr as the Lion, Jack Haley as the Tin Man, Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow, and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West. Which when you think of it is kind of funny since they actually played multiple roles within that very movie. (Frank Morgan is the exception – I do think of him as both Oz and Professor Marvel, at least.)
William Daniels, “Sit Down John”
Even better, “Is Anybody There?”, but this one is audio only.
I always say look it’s Robin Colcord, Rebecca’s mentor/boyfriend.