# People Who Could Play Simpson Character In Live Action Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487 "2002-04-13T22:13:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/1 "2002-04-13T22:13:15Z")
If they made a live action movie of the Simpsons, would could you see playing a family member or one of the townspeople? 2 Rules: 1. ``` There are few people you can find out there that LOOK like Homer Simpson. It doesn't have to be base JUST on looks. It could be VOICE, DEMEANOR, STATE OF MIND, INTELLIGENCE, ATTITUDE, DIET (i.e., beer), SHARED CHARACTERISTICS, LOOKS, even ODOR! Just the person who has the most likeness to the character. ``` 2. ``` Don't limit yourself to JUST Actors, It can be CELEBRITIES, POLITICIANS, even a PERSON YOU KNOW... but you must explain the person you know. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/2 "2002-04-13T22:25:29Z")
Wiggum=Edward G Robinson ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/3 "2002-04-14T00:02:13Z")
I thought this thread would do better ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/4 "2002-04-14T00:35:29Z")
[Mike McShane](http://us.imdb.com/Name?McShane,+Michael+(I)) as Comic Book Guy ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/5 "2002-04-14T01:47:59Z")
Homer would have to be played by William Hurt (he’d need a fat suit, or he’d need to gain some weight). Get Edward Norton to play Groundskeeper Willy (assuming he can pull off the thick Scottish accent). Ian McKellan to play Mr. Burns. Kevin Spacey as Principal Skinner. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/6 "2002-04-14T02:21:36Z")
C’mon, how about Harry Dean Stanton as Mr. Burns? And David Hyde Pearce as Smithers? And Christopher Guest as Apu. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/7 "2002-04-14T02:47:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > **And David Hyde Pearce as Smithers?** I think that’d create too much confusion with the casting of **Cecil Terwilliger**. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/8 "2002-04-14T04:07:51Z")
Going on looks alone - Bruce Willis could play Homer. Has anyone else ever noticed this? Look how huge that man’s upper lip is. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/9 "2002-04-14T05:21:39Z")
Renier Wolfcastle = me. No, really. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/10 "2002-04-14T11:35:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > **Get Edward Norton to play Groundskeeper Willy (assuming he can pull off the thick Scottish accent).** He wouldn’t need to. Groundskeeper Willy’s accent is an incredibly bad attempt as it is. [Craig Ferguson](http://abc.abcnews.go.com/primetime/drewcarey/bios/craig_ferguson.html) would be a better choice if you actually want the genuine article. But I have to call a stop to this thread right now, before any idea starved Hollywood executive sees it. We haven’t all forgotten what the Flintstone movies were like, have we? ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/11 "2002-04-14T14:05:12Z")
if only it was possible for phil hartman to play lionel hutz/troy mcclure. he’d be perfect in looks and voice. ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeremy_s_Evil_Twin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/12 "2002-04-14T14:27:36Z")
Man, I never thought of Bruce Willis as Homer. I can actually see it. Marge would have to be played by Julie Kavner. Nobody else can do that voice. Until his testicles dropped, Frankie Muniz would have been a perfect Bart Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/13 "2002-04-14T15:24:09Z")
We used to have a customer at the theater I worked at in my old home town who looked EXACTLY like Homer Simpson. We used to jokingly refer to him as such and one day he came in wearing a Homer Simpson “World’s Greatest Dad” t-shirt so I assume his kids noticed the resemblance as well, haha. I’m thinking for Mr. Burns either Calista Flockhart or Nancy Reagan. I’m coming up blank for the rest, but husband is dragging me to a baseball game today, so I’ll have plenty of time to think about it to keep from falling asleep. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/14 "2002-04-14T23:14:18Z")
Principal Skinner=Al Gore! ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/15 "2002-04-14T23:32:58Z")
> [@](#): > > He wouldn’t need to. Groundskeeper Willy’s accent is an incredibly bad attempt as it is. Craig Ferguson would be a better choice if you actually want the genuine article. We wouldn’t want the genuine article… we’d want Groundskeeper Willy! I can just picture Edward Norton shouting “I told you! Didn’t I tell you?!? That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer 'imself!” Others… Conan O’Brien would be a PERFECT Ned Flanders. Just nerd 'im up a little. Just for the sheer amusement factor, get Michael Clark Duncan to play Dr. Hibbert. Get Kate Mulgrew to play Marge. She has that raspy, obnoxious, “I just smoked fifty packs of cigarettes” voice. Tom Sizemore as Fat Tony. Get Edmund Lyndeck (I think that was him… he played the grandpa in _Road Trip_) to play Abe Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/16 "2002-04-15T00:37:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Tom Sizemore as Fat Tony. Why not Joe Mantegna, since he voiced Fat Tony–and, in fact, Tony seems to be modeled on him? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/17 "2002-04-15T00:39:19Z")
William Macy as Ned Flanders. Joey Isuzu (whatever his real name is) to play Lionel Hart. Mayor Quimby - Ted Kennedy Keanu Reeves (Think Bill and Ted or Point Break, dude) as Otto the Bus Driver. Narly, man… Who would play the Great Krusty? Side Show Bob would be Kelsey Grammer. Cheech Marin could be the Bumble Bee Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vampire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Space\_Vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vampire)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/18 "2002-04-15T00:43:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gadarene \* > \*\* > > Why not Joe Mantegna, since he voiced Fat Tony–and, in fact, Tony seems to be modeled on him? \*\* Mantegna isn’t actually fat enough, though… And we all know that comic book guy=Harry Knowles, though that’s become fairly explicit. I pray this never happens. It couldn’t possibly work. ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/19 "2002-04-15T00:47:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*William Macy as Ned Flanders. \*\* Oh, you beat me by _this_ much! Actually, I work with Ned Flanders. His name is Rick Schoenberger. I’ve had conversations with co-workers where we actually said that Rick IS either William Macy or Ned Flanders. Perfecto.😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487/20 "2002-04-15T03:09:25Z")
This came up at dinner tonight. How about John Goodman as Homer (of course this brings up the whole Flintstones thing again). In fact, why _would_ anyone want a live action movie of The Simpsons? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-could-play-simpson-character-in-live-action-movie/103487.md?page=2)