On some of these we don’t have to guess…
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Heath Ledger, the Australian-born actor whose breakthrough role as a gay cowboy in the 2005 movie “Brokeback Mountain” earned him a nomination for an Academy Award and comparisons to the likes of Marlon Brando, was found dead Tuesday…
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Definitely in the US, he is most famous for playing James Bond. The Saint wasn’t really popular here.
Say wha?
Nah, Captain Kirk is too classic of a character to ever be replaced as his primary role.
Sigourney Weaver Ripley from the Alien franchise.
Alan Alda has made thirty-six movies. But when he dies, they’ll be showing clips from MASH.
No, when Fosse died in 1987, the two things most mentioned were Cabaret and All That Jazz.
Is that a whoosh? (Not the part about looking like a Thunderbirds puppet. You’re right there.) Quark was an obscure sitcom that ran for eight weeks in 1978. Benjamin’s more likely to be remembered for playing the neurotic character in a bunch of early seventies comedies like Goodbye, Columbus, Catch-22, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Portnoy’s Complaint, and The Last of Sheila. Granted, none of them stand out enough to be his signature role.
It’s probably going to depend on when she dies. In the next five years, she’ll be remembered for True Blood. But the series will eventually end and memories of it will fade into her other roles. The Oscar win will always stand out even if she lives to be ninety.
When Luise Rainer eventually dies, what do you think the first thing they’ll say about her will be? Okay, that she was really old. But then they’ll say she won back-to-back Oscars in 1936 and 1937.
It wasn’t Ron Jeremy. It was Paul Thomas who was in Jesus Christ Superstar. He played Peter (seriously) under his real name, Philip Toubus.
Politically???
Or Sir Sean…wait…never mind…
I think it’s just as likely that Davis would get a mention for A League of their Own and Sarandon for Dead Man Walking" especially the latter as that was her (most recent) Oscar winning role. Davis’s Oscar was a supporting actress nod for the not especially popular The Accidental Tourist and that’s not as likely to be named in her obit’s lede.
Denzel has two Oscars, the other was for Glory. As for other notable roles, The Pelican Brief is exceptionally popular on TV and notable from the regular rebroadcasts, and he’s done three hugely acclaimed biopics: Biko, The Hurricane for which he won the Golden Globe and was Oscar nominated, and *Malcolm X, *which also netted GG and Oscar nods.
Another multiple award winner with a huge body of work who won’t, and frankly can’t possibly be remembered for just one role. This and Forrest Gump are both standouts and the back to back Oscar wins, which remain historic, pretty much ensure that neither role will be ignored when it’s time to write him into the sunset.
Not a chance that this is the standout remembered role for any of them. If it’s down to name one for each, it’s The Deer Hunter, Heathers and the tv show Medium, respectively.
Are do people really talk about Tom Hanks as being in Philadelphia? I haven’t heard anyone talk about that movie for years. It may be a good movie, I don’t know, I’ve never watched it, but its not a role I’d associate Tom Hanks with. I’d probably put A League of their Own above that.
It was sort of a Whoosh (barely recognised obscure actor from barely seen obscure show), but really I think for a lot of nerds of my generation that’s what he’ll be remembered best for.
The weird thing is Benjamin’s pretty much switched from being an actor to being a director - he’s directed fifteen movies. But he gets almost no recognition as a director because all of his movies have been pretty forgettable. Who thinks about movies like The Money Pit or City Heat or My Stepmother is an Alien or Downtown or Milk Money or Marci X? Benjamin makes the kind of movies HBO buys to fill up its schedule.
There was a thread about The Rocky Horror Picture Show and that reminded me of another obvious one: Tim Curry.
If anything, I’d put Saving Private Ryan above either of them.
Jeff Daniels- Dumb & Dumber. The toilet scene is legendary.
Leonard Nimoy will be remembered for …guess !