she is a singer as well.
so you hear Leela singing looking like Peg Bundy and being like neither.
Al Pacino - Michael Corleone
Brent Spiner - Data
Zach Braff - J.D.
Malcolm Reynolds looks silly as a mystery writer.
Interestingly Stiers actually does a lot of voice over narration for PBS documentaries and he’s quite good at it. Again, without the Boston accent he’s nearly unrecognizable.
Years ago I saw him on a morning show doing press for Twister. At the end the interviewer said, “Great to see you, been a fan since Aliens” and Paxton just grinned and said, “Game over man!”
I take it you’re British. Cause needless to say to any Gen-X or younger Yank Guinness will forever be, well, you know. Same goes for Hugh Laurie always being House…
He’s got some Disney voice work, too–Narrator and Cogsworth the Clock in “Beauty and The Beast.” You can just hear a tiny touch of Winchester every once in a while.
Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor.
Granted, I’ve seen him* in precious little since the 70s, but every time I do, I wonder how Romana is and if he’s carrying Jelly Babies.
*IMDB shows his other work, but I haven’t seen hardly a hair
I saw him as Sherlock Holmes. He scaled back on the eccentricities and was kind of boring.
At the time he appeared on an episode of Remington Steele, I had never once seen an episode of Doctor Who, and even then, I said to my mother, “What’s Doctor Who doing on Remington Steele?”