Arnold will be remembered as the Terminator.
Don McLean will always be remembered for “American Pie”.
Adam West will always be remembered for “Batman”.
Woody Allen will always be for Annie Hall.
Meg Ryan will be known for When Harry Met Sally
Jason Biggs, the pie fucking scene in American Pie.
Clearly the one that Tom Hanks will be remembered for is Radio Flyer. Or maybe Bosom Buddies. Actually in all seriousness I think two others that would be in Hanks’s obituaries would be Sleepless in Seattle and Toy Story.
For George Clooney I’d pick O Brother Where Art Thou or even ER.
For Julia Roberts it’s Pretty Woman. Same for Richard Gere, though he’d also have An Officer and a Gentleman.
I’m not a huge Tom Hanks fan, but I’m pretty sure Philadelphia will be one of the films he’ll be most remembered for.
You missed George Takei and James Doohan.
But, yeah, Battlestar Gallactica was hard to forget.
Richard Benjamin will always be remembered for Quark. And for looking like a Thunderbirds Puppet.
Jeff Goldbloom The Fly. Or Jurassic Park.
Altho they have numerous other credits,
Christopher Walken/Christian Slater/Patricia Arquette:
True Romance.
*He’s so cool…he’s so cool…"
Michelangelo: Sistine Chapel ceiling (or perhaps the statue of David)
Picasso: Guernica
Monet: Poppies Blooming
Oh, wait, you wanted celebrities that haven’t died yet?
In no way true for Roger Moore.
Omar Shariff - Dr. Zhivago
Robert Strauss - Stalag 17
Julie Andrews - Sound of Music
Jack Wild - Oliver!
Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
Richard Harris - Camelot
George Chakiris - West Side Story
Bob Fosse - Sweet Charity
Jerome Robbins - Three Sailors
Gene Kelly - Singing in the Rain
Paul Scofield - A Man for all Seasons
Sydney Potier - To Sir with Love
John Voight - Midnight Cowboy
Steve Mcqueen - Bullit
Gene Hackman - The French Connection
Marlon Brando - The Godfather
Al Pacino - Scarface
Faye Dunaway - Bonie and Clyde
Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
Merryl Streep - Sophie’s Choice
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke
Madelene Khan - Blazing Saddles
Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog
Bill Cosby - Fat Albert
Donna Summer - Thank God it’s Friday
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Robert Downey Jr. - " " as Sgt " " (that’s what everyone says.)
M Caulkin - Home Alone
Darren Macgavin - The Night Stalker
Meryl Streep: Sophies Choice
Tom Cruise: Top Gun
Patrick Stewart: Picard
William Shatner: I thinks that in this case he might be remembered more as Denny Crane
Harrison Ford: I think Indiana Jones is something which he is known for more than Han Solo.
Natalie Portman: Continuing on the Star Wars theme; Padme Amidala.
Colin Firth: Mr Darcy.
Prince- Purple Rain. That might be a cheat, though, since it’ll be both the film and the album for which he’ll be remembered.
Morris Day- “Jungle Love” by The Time.
Director Tom Tykwer and actress Franka Potente- Run Lola Run.
Sofia Coppola- despite her career after, I bet she’s remembered–and not in a good way-- primarily for her role in The Godfather III.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Ron Jeremy were cited for his (probably apocryphal) work on Jesus Christ Superstar?
Oh, my god, he DID look like a Thunderbirds puppet!
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Saga, maybe Apocalypse Now
But Martin Scorsese?
Roseanne - well, her show, Roseanne, of course. John Goodman, also for Roseanne.
Kevin Bacon - Footloose? or maybe Tremors.
Hugh Laurie - hmm, that’s a tough one…
Betty White - Right now it’s Hot In Cleveland, but she put in her best years on Mary Tyler Moore.
Anna Paquin - True Blood, or winning an Academy Award at age 11? (I would say True Blood, because she was not THE youngest Academy Award winner.)
This may be true in the UK, but he is known almost exclusively as Bond in North America.