To me, Matthew McConaughey will always be Wooderson from Dazed and Confused.
Keanu Reeves is still the dumbass kid from Bill & Ted’s…
In Pulp Fiction, I saw Travolta’s character as Vinny Barbarino age 40.
I was a little conflicted during episodes 1 &2 of the sta wars saga…Mace Windu was a gangster and Qui Gon Jin was a Nazi
Oddly for me, Michael York will always be J. Saint Gideon, only because I’ve never seen Phantom of the Opera and I first saw Logan’s Run after I played Overseer.
Got that?
And I have this really odd problem with Hugo Weaving. There wasn’t anything wrong when I saw him in Priscilla, but it made me start to giggle when, after I saw him in drag in that movie, I saw him in full-blown Agent mode in The Matrix. And then I saw him in Fellowship, which blew my mind.
"Mr…Underhill. It seems…you have been living…two lives. In one of these lives, you are a well-respected gentlehobbit, living the high life in Bag End…
“Hobbits…are a virus.”
And then came Matrix Reloaded, where Elrond the Elf-Lord starts screwing with Neo again…
I don’t agree with green_bladder about Spacey. [sorry] He’s one of the actors that slips into any role. Remember Keyser Soze?
Agreeing with ** bordelond** Mr. Blonde, forever.
To me - no matter how many beautiful roles she played - Frances McDormand will always be Marge Gunderson.
This happens more with older movies for me. Try and watch Rear Window without quoting Perry Mason every time Mr. Thorwald comes on the screen.
The kid from Witness, Lukas Haas, has been in some other movies as an adult. (Rambling Rose, Mars Attacks!). It freaked me out.
Hillary Swank will always be Teena Brandon, unfortunately.
Speaking of Bill & Ted’s - the guy that played Bill was in some British period piece movie, talking in a British accent. Adding “Dude” before every line he spoke never got old.
As for Hugo Weaving, I think of Babe every time I hear him speak.
Speaking of Babe, James Cromwell will always be Hoggett.
Linda Hamilton = Sarah Connor
Keanu = Neo
Sam Neil, for me, is Merlin, from the TV miniseries, which I loved.
And I’d been watching NewsRadio for years before seeing Office Space, so Stephen Root is far more Jimmy James than Milton.
Whenever i see Ed o’Neill, i always think Al Bundy. Not that you see him much anywhere else.
All the James Bond actors, even Timothy Dalton, but especially Roger Moore.
Matt Dillon is still Mooney fromMy Bodyguard.
Morgan Freeman is still Easy Reader.
And of course, Mark Metcalf will always be Neidermeyer.
Even though he’s very talented and hilarious, Roberto Benigni will always be Guido from Life is Beautiful. Now, anytime I see him in a movie, I"m afraid he’ll walk off-screen…
Bruce Campbell will ALWAYS be Ash.
I second the Audrey Toutou (spelling?) as Amelie.
In every movie since Fear and Loathing…, Johnny Deep has been Hunter S. Thompson to me. Which isn’t too bad at all.
Any member of Monty Python will always be a member of Monty Python in my mind. I watched Brazil a few nights ago and waited for Michael Palin to break into “the Lumberjack Song”.
In all fairness to him, he seems to have a pretty good gig with Dragnet. Although I give it 1 more season before its cancelled.
The first time I saw John Malkvovich was in Of Mice and Men, in which he played a retard. I have trouble taking him seriously. I don’t know if I actually knew he wasn’t retarded at first. Every movie I’m waiting for him to try to say “George.”
Also the boss, Lumberg from Office Space didn’t convince me in Excalibur.
Brent Spiner as Data, Lore and Dr. Soong. It’s like Data is hamming it up or has his chip in. Sad to see him age though.
It’s weird seeing people out of heavy makeup. This goes for Michael Dorn, Andreas Katsulas and a few others. Not Armin Shimmerman, though, as the Mayor from Buffy.
He wasn’t an adult in Rambling Rose. 14 or 15 according to IMDB. Laura Dern did almost make him a man though I suppose.
I came in to post this same thing. Another one that I mentioned in the Tom Hanks thread is that to me, Tom Hanks is the guy from Bosom Buddies. That’s the extent of his range.
Oh, and Bronson Pinchot will always, always be Balki.
1776, both play and movie, did it to two of its stars. William Daniels has had a varied career, playing a doctor, a talking car, a superhero, and God knows what else. But I always think of him as Joh Adams. apparently a lot of people couldn’t help idenmtifying him with the role, because he played Adams or a relation at least three more times in various TV series and movies.
Similarly, Howard da Silva was Ben Franklin, and I always see him that way. He ended up playing him in at least one other place that I can’t recall, in addition to a series of TV commercals for GE.
Which is quite funny when you think about it.
Kip Wilson just started out life as an ordinary guy in New York when his apartment building got condemned. There was that little situation when he was in college and got a little too addicted to D&D. Advertising (that’s what he did on Bosom Buddies, right?) palled for Kip after a wile, and so he decided to quit his job and become a dockhand. Unfortunately, the
excitement just didn’t end there.
His wedding to the fish went a little sour, that charming brainless qualitly starting to get on his nerves after a while. Escaping to the military seemed viable for a time, but in the end he really wanted to just settle down with a nice lady in a lovely house. Even if it was a bit of a fixer-upper.
And it just gets better…
No way. That’s Stretch Cunningham, even whenhe was inventing the Warp Drive.
As for me, it’s Mandy Patankin. Every time I see him, especially on that cammercial he’s been in, I go into his Princess Bride revenge spiel.
Sean Astin will always be Samwise Gamgee to me. When I see him in something else, I don’t think ‘oh, Sean Astin is in this’. I think ‘Oh, it’s SAM!’
Same with Elijah Wood=Frodo.
Matthew McConaughey will always be Wooderson to me as well.
Michael Keaton is ONLY Batman, Johnny Dangerously, Mr. Mom, and Beetlejuice. Any other roles he is in is one of those doubles from Multiplicity. I will not argue this point.
Oh. My. God. I’ve never missed an episode of Spin City - NOW I KNOW WHERE I REMEMBER HIM FROM! I NEVER KNEW THIS!!!
Thank you thank you thank you!
Yes, I am an idiot. A quite large idiot. For example, it had not occurred to me until very very recently that Keifer and Donald Sutherland were related. My husband mocks me endlessly.