# Movie/TV actors that you'll always see as a particular character **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535 "2014-07-31T23:37:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/42 "2014-08-03T19:01:20Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > I believe that is Barney Fife Of course, that’s a typo. Jim Parsons will never be able to be anyone but Sheldon. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/43 "2014-08-03T19:15:34Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > A reviewer for the Onion’s AV Club said something about John Rhys-Davies being best known for Gimli in LotR. The reviewer was quickly mocked in the comment thread for not mentioning his other really big role of Sallah in Raiders (and Last Crusade) and then kept mentioning other roles he’d played. For this thread, I’d probably say his role as Sallah. Nope. Macro in _ **I, Claudius** _. I watch all the other actors from that series (Brian Blessed, Patick Stewart, John Hurt, Derek Jacobi, George Baker, and so on) and I can never dissociate them from it either. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/44 "2014-08-03T19:20:33Z")
Patrick MacNee and Diana Rigg as John Steed and Emma Peel. Patrick McGoohan as John Drake\*\* and \*\*“The Prisoner” ( **OF COURSE** they’re one and the same man). ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/45 "2014-08-03T19:43:17Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > Bill Paxton = Hudson I dunno… I still always think of him as [Chet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcUWG23hqvw), and his turn as Hudson in Aliens was just what Chet might have been like as a Marine. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/46 "2014-08-03T21:11:31Z")
Kate Mulgrew is Captain Janeway, even when she is an inmate in a women’s prison. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/47 "2014-08-03T22:18:40Z")
Jason Alexander ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/48 "2014-08-03T22:39:18Z")
Alec Guinness is George Smiley, Judith Anderson is Mrs. Danvers and Ian Richardson is the only true Francis Urquhart. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/49 "2014-08-04T00:50:23Z")
Eh, for me Guinness will always be Obi-Wan. And the late Bob Hoskins will always be Eddie Valiant from _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_ Also, Christopher Lloyd is Doctor Emmett Brown or Reverend Jim Ignatowski. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/50 "2014-08-04T01:18:02Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I dunno… I still always think of him as [Chet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcUWG23hqvw), and his turn as Hudson in Aliens was just what Chet might have been like as a Marine. Yep. See [Post 37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bDAYP4kpGk) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/51 "2014-08-04T01:21:37Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > Kate Mulgrew is Captain Janeway, even when she is an inmate in a women’s prison. I always wondered how Mrs Columbo got into space. Kind of like Mrs. Slocombe in space, I guess… ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/52 "2014-08-04T03:08:51Z")
Nigel Hawthorne will always be Sir Humphrey Appleby. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/53 "2014-08-04T12:33:03Z")
Everyone in _Band of Brothers_ will be that guy from _Band of Brothers_ now and forever (except for a couple of the cameos, Simon Pegg, Jimmy Fallon). It also doesn’t include David Schwimmer even though he was great in it. He will always be Ross. But it does include Donnie Wahlberg even though he was famous before the show. He will always be Carwood Lipton. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/54 "2014-08-04T14:07:17Z")
> [@Hook](#): > > “Plus, Hugh Laurie will always be the Prince Regent on Blackadder.” > To me, Hugh Laurie is forever Bertie Wooster. When he’s speaking British. But to Americans he is forever Dr. Gregory House. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/55 "2014-08-04T14:09:59Z")
Angela Lansbury will always be Jessica Fletcher ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/56 "2014-08-04T14:26:22Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Everyone in _Band of Brothers_ will be that guy from _Band of Brothers_ now and forever (except for a couple of the cameos, Simon Pegg, Jimmy Fallon). It also doesn’t include David Schwimmer even though he was great in it. He will always be Ross. But it does include Donnie Wahlberg even though he was famous before the show. He will always be Carwood Lipton. That’s probably true for most of the main characters, but you can’t tell me that Ron Livingston is stuck in your head as Lewis Nixon rather than Peter Gibbons from Office Space. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/57 "2014-08-04T14:57:53Z")
Wil Wheaton could become an A-list actor and win 12 Oscars. But he will never escape Wesley Crusher. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/58 "2014-08-04T15:17:43Z")
> [@bump](#): > > That’s probably true for most of the main characters, but you can’t tell me that Ron Livingston is stuck in your head as Lewis Nixon rather than Peter Gibbons from Office Space. Likewise Gary Cole as Bill Lumbergh from that same wonderful movie! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/59 "2014-08-04T15:27:41Z")
To me, Sean Bean is always Boromir. ---
**Author:** ![danhanegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@danhanegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danhanegan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/60 "2014-08-04T17:35:30Z")
Katey Segal is Peggy Bundy. I happened to watch some 8 Simple Rules reruns a few months ago, a series I had never seen before, and kept being bothered by how familiar the mother seemed. Finally it kicked in. That’s Katey Segal! In my head I had trouble making the association because in 8 simple rules she plays a GOOD mom. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535/61 "2014-08-04T18:04:30Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Johnny Depp is always Jack Sparrow > > Which I don’t mean as a compliment since he plays the same character/does the same voice in every movie he’s in now Then you should watch him as Hunter Thompson in “Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas” and “The Rum Diaries”. That’ll cure you of this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-actors-that-youll-always-see-as-a-particular-character/694535.md?page=4)