# What Actor/Actress Will Always Be Character X For You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909 "2007-11-10T14:44:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/21 "2007-11-11T00:32:36Z")
William Daniels=John Adams Marion Ross=Marion Cunningham Bob Newhart=Bob Hartly/Dick Louden(who were, in fact, the same guy. . .) ---
**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:** [November 11, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/22 "2007-11-11T00:46:56Z")
[QUOTE=VernWinterbottom] William Daniels=John Adams [/QUOTE] For me, Daniels will always be K.I.T.T. Also, St. Elsewhere’s Dr. Mark Craig. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/23 "2007-11-11T00:53:08Z")
[QUOTE=VernWinterbottom] William Daniels=John Adams [/QUOTE] I doubt that I’ll ever see or hear William Daniels without thinking of [Captain Nice](http://members.tripod.com/makeitsomarketing/PICCAPTAINNICEFORBLOG.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/24 "2007-11-11T01:00:06Z")
Shatner will always be Kirk and Nimoy will always be Spock. Same for everyone else on that show. “Hey, it’s Scotty!” “Hey, it’s Uhura!” “Hey, it’s Bones!” David Boreanaz will always be Angel. I keep waiting for him to bite Tempe on the neck. Hey, maybe that’s why they haven’t had sex! ---
**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:** [November 11, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/25 "2007-11-11T01:05:26Z")
To me, Tommy Lee Jones will always be Dr. Mark Toland of One Life to Live. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/26 "2007-11-11T01:07:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] Heh. I was recently forced to watch Six Days, Seven Nights (or something like that) and my wife got mad at me because I said to the actress on the TV “You fool, you are climbing on a plane piloted by Indiana Jones and Han Solo, what do you think is going to happen?” [/QUOTE] “He said he was going to let me fire the proton torpedoes at the Nazis.” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/27 "2007-11-11T01:23:43Z")
Vigo Mortensen will always be Satan to me. It makes LOTR soooo much more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![TripleTee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@TripleTee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TripleTee)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/28 "2007-11-11T01:37:26Z")
Keanu Reeves will always be Ted Logan from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. In fact, I have retitled his movies to Ted Goes Surfing, Ted Goes to Court, Ted Hacks Some Computer Networks, Ted Drives a Bus Really Fast, Ted Plays Football, Ted Goes to Hell, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/29 "2007-11-11T01:55:58Z")
**Darren McGavern** will always be “the old man” from **A Christmas Story**. **Zero Mostel** will always be Max Bialistock. **Meg Ryan** will always be Sally. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/30 "2007-11-11T01:57:41Z")
[QUOTE=VernWinterbottom] William Daniels=John Adams… [/QUOTE] seconded (I was raised on the original _1776_ soundtrack) Just look at his IMDb profile, he’s played John, Sam, or John Quincy so many times he might as well change his name. …shoulda gotten a Tony for it, too. “Is Anybody There?” ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/31 "2007-11-11T02:44:34Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] “Is Anybody There?” [/QUOTE] "Does anybody care. . . Does anybody see. . . what I see?" ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/32 "2007-11-11T04:10:36Z")
Dominic West _is_ Jimmy McNulty. Period. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/33 "2007-11-11T05:02:47Z")
[QUOTE=Unintentionally Blank] Alec Baldwin will always be Jack Ryan…Even if Han Solo kept getting the part. [/QUOTE] Now _that_ is why I can’t get interested in any of the other Tom Clancy movies. It’s the wrong actor. 😉 They just seem off, to me. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/34 "2007-11-11T05:08:24Z")
[QUOTE=TripleTee] Keanu Reeves will always be Ted Logan from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. In fact, I have retitled his movies to Ted Goes Surfing, Ted Goes to Court, Ted Hacks Some Computer Networks, Ted Drives a Bus Really Fast, Ted Plays Football, Ted Goes to Hell, etc. [/QUOTE] That made me laugh. 🙂 Ray Winstone will always be the terrifying abusive bastard from “Nil by Mouth” to me. Watching “Sexy Beast,” I was on the edge of my seat, waiting for old Gal to start wailing on his wife, pool boy, friends, Ben Kingsley, the patio furniture, the palm trees, etc. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/35 "2007-11-11T05:12:42Z")
[QUOTE=Lilacs] For me, Adam Baldwin will always be Jayne Cobb from Firefly/Serenity. NO matter what I see him in, I blurt, “It’s the man called JAYNE!” [/QUOTE] Adam Baldwin will always by “My Bodyguard” to me. Even when I saw him in “Full Metal Jacket”, I said “it’s My Bodyguard !” Willem Dafoe (and I love his work) will always be Raven from “Streets of Fire” to me. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/36 "2007-11-11T05:51:32Z")
Peter Falk will always be Columbo. Always. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/37 "2007-11-11T06:23:42Z")
And of course, I don’t think it was a coincidence that Apollo 13 had all the trouble it had with Forrest Gump driving it. ---
**Author:** ![anamnesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@anamnesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anamnesis)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/38 "2007-11-11T06:45:21Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] And when Ripley dressed as Queen Isabel of Spain in “1492” … [/quote] **+1** Sigourney Weaver will always be Ellen Ripley, and perhaps by association, Ian Holm will always be Ash because I seem to have some nervous expectation that he’ll start sweating and/or vomiting milk every time I see him. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/39 "2007-11-11T07:18:31Z")
[QUOTE=anamnesis] Ian Holm will always be Ash because I seem to have some nervous expectation that he’ll start sweating and/or vomiting milk every time I see him. [/QUOTE] Hey, just because that’s how _most_ people react upon meeting you doesn’t mean Holm will do the same. ---
**Author:** ![anamnesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@anamnesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anamnesis)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-will-always-be-character-x-for-you/425909/40 "2007-11-11T07:31:44Z")
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