# Cast a movie with actors of yesteryear **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 27, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457 "2025-01-27T01:37:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457/21 "2025-01-28T00:07:01Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > Ed Norton as David (the Werewolf) > Jack Black as Jack Goodman (the undead friend) > Rachel Weisz as Nurse Alex > Ewan McGregor as the guy who tells the “Remember the Alamo” joke in the Slaughtered Lamb > Griffin Dunne (throwback) as the guy who tells them to “keep off the moors, stay on the path” Aren’t they all still alive? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457/22 "2025-01-28T00:18:03Z")
**Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow** James Garner as Sky Captain Blythe Danner as Polly Perkins Jane Russell as Franky Levon Helm as Dex Tom Hiddelston as Dr. Totenkopf **Sleuth** young Laurence Olivier as Milo Tindle Christopher Lee as Andrew Wyke ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457/23 "2025-01-28T00:49:24Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Aren’t they all still alive? Rats. Misread OP. An American Werewolf in London River Phoenix as Jack John Belushi as David Diana Rigg as Nurse Alex Tyrone Power as dart missing guy (Slaughterd Lamb) Charles Laughton as Alamo joke guy Julian Sands as keep off the moors guy Patrick McGoohan,as the investigating doctor All positively undead ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457/24 "2025-01-28T01:15:18Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > River Phoenix as Jack > John Belushi as David And then I mixed up the two leads. Hope it was obvious. River Phoenix as David (the Werewolf) John Belushi as Jack Goodman (the undead friend) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457/25 "2025-01-31T17:58:34Z")
Robert Heinlein’s _The Rolling Stones_ Dwayne Hickman as the twins. Maggie Smith as Grandma Hazel Fred MacMurray as Roger Stone June Lockhart as Dr. Edith Stone Audrey Hepburn as Meade Freddy Bartholomew as Buster Robert Preston as Captain Vandenberg Victor MacLaglen as One-Price ---
**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:** [February 1, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457/26 "2025-02-01T04:34:15Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Vincent Price as Doctor Strange > [@](#): > > Edward G Robinson as Baron Mordo If we’re now putting the TEN COMMANDMENTS cast in Marvel roles: Yul Brynner as Professor X, and Charlton Heston as Magneto? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457/27 "2025-02-01T07:35:37Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Charlton Heston as Magneto? Get your paws off me, you damned dirty Beast! ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457/28 "2025-02-01T16:23:49Z")
Actually, before 2000, when Patrick Stewart played the role, most comic book artists based their drawings of Professor X on Yul Brynner. Stan Lee once said that when writing dialog, he imagined Professor X sounding like Leslie Howard with an American accent. He imagined the Beast with Tony Randall’s voice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457.md?page=1)