Which actors do you associate primarily with one film roles?

Gregory Peck played lots of good roles. I’d think more along the lines of Macaulay Culkin as the Home Alone kid.

Yeah – I don’t mean he is known for one role but just that you personally see him embodying that character. It’s a subjective question.

Morgan Freeman as God. Though arguably, that is not a film role.
Keanu Reeves as Neo.
Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator.
Mark Hamill as the Joker.
Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.
Christopher Reeve as Superman.
John Travolta as Terl (Battlefield Earth).
Johnny the Depp as Gay Pirate Captain.
Clint Eastwood as Leni Riefenstahl.
And Kevin Bacon.

Jack Nicholson has been playing the same Jack Nicholson character for a very long time. I got tired of it in the early 90s.

I couldn’t buy Judi Dench in Marigold because she’s M.

Kevin Bacon will always be the guy on Footloose.

Patrick Stewart as Jean Lucy Pukehard.

Charlton Heston as Moses in “The 10 Commandments.”

I could not take his NRA spokesperson gig seriously because I couldn’t picture Moses with a AR.

(Although… if they had a few ARs maybe the wouldn’t have been slaves or living in the desert all those years.)

Dustin Hoffman for, “The Graduate.”
John Voight for , “Midnight Cowboy.”
Tom Hanks for, “Castaway.”
Rock Hudson for, “Giant.”
Warren Beatty for , “Heaven Can Wait.”
Al Pacino for, “Scent of a Woman.”

Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams. No matter how hard he tries to be a tough guy, he is Ray Kinsella.

Sean Connery as James Bond.
Raymond Burr as Perry Mason.

I’ve read both Fleming and Gardner, and I always picture those actors as their characters.

If you didn’t mean to include series, sorry.

@canidmajor That’s fine with me.

Tom Cruise – Mission Impossible
Robin Williams – Mrs. Doubtfire
Clint Eastwood – Dirty Harry

It took years to move past seeing Christopher Plummer as anyone but Captain von Trapp from The Sound of Music.

The same is true for Vivian Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind. The book was read after seeing the film. Leigh was envisioned as the Scarlett character the whole time. I about fell out of my chair when I later learned that she was British.

Adam West as Batman—I didn’t get the humour and it turned me off to superheros for a long, long time. Kind of a childhood trauma.

Groveling Peter Lorre in Casablanca.

Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre—his gold dance.

Charles Coburn in The Lady Eve.

Jack Nicholson in Chinatown.

Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek.

John Wayne in The Searchers.

Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not.

Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein.

Charles Laughton in the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Richard Widmark in Pickup on South Street.

Robert Ryan in Bad Day at Black Rock.

Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen.

Marilyn Monroe in Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend.

Bogart in The Maltese Falcon.

Charles Bronson in the Death Wish films. (I know he did other stuff, but for me that’s where I picture him).

I’ll keep thinking.

Ned Beatty in Deliverance.

Elijah Wood will always be Frodo
Emma Watson will always be Hermione
Jon Heder will always be Napoleon Dynamite
Paul Reubens will always be Peewee Herman
Bolo Yeung will always be Chong Li

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly.

Daniel Radcliff can’t be anyone but Harry Potter. Yes, that was who I pictured as I read the books. I heard the Malfoy boy wanted to be Harry Potter, and I can’t picture that at all.
Reeves as Superman, and only Reeves.
Tom Cruise as Maverick.
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.
Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Julie Andrews as Maria in Sound Of Music.

According to Wikipedia, Dolph Lundgren appeared in 54 films after Rocky IV. He was Ivan Drago in all of them.

snort! That guy knows where his money is.

Clint Eastwood. The Outlaw Josey Wales.

A big fucking gorilla – King Kong

Humphrey Bogart in any Philip Marlone movie
Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past

^^ Definitely a good call. Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, right?. Book and screenplay by Raymond Chandler. Good one, Mimi.

Rachel McAdams as Allie Hamilton in “The Notebook”.
This is my favorite movie, and she will always be Allie to me.

Someone above to the words right out of my mouth. Jack Nicholson playing the basic same eccentric character over and over again.

Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz.

Jared Leto – Mr. Nobody
Christian Bale – Empire of the Sun (he’ll always be that lost and lonely child in my head)
Russell Crowe – Gladiator
Guy Pearce – L.A. Confidential
Tim Roth – Four Rooms
Michael Keaton – Batman
Gary Oldman – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead!
Samuel Jackson – Pulp Fiction
Jason Statham – Transporter
Dwayne Johnson – The Scorpion King
Nick Frost – Shaun of the Dead
Ian McShane – Kings
Norman Reedus – Boondock Saints
Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock
John Hurt – 1984
Ray Liotta – Goodfellas
Wesley Snipes – Blade
Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man
Bruce Willis – Die Hard
Ben Affleck – Dogma

Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (1939) – she didn’t just play Cathy, she was Cathy
Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry
Barbara Streisand in The Way We Were
Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek (he and Spock are the same individual in my mind)
Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice in the movie of the same name
Liv Tyler as Lady Arwen in The Lord Of the Rings

@sahID Which makes me think of Orlando Bloom as Legolas and Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn.

Bogart in High Sierra

Johnny Depp-Edward Scissorhands
Meryll Streep -Sophie-Sophie’s Choice
Humphry Bogart—Rick-Casablanca
Edward Norton/Brad Pitt-Tyler Durden—Fight Club
Sam Rockwell-Chuck Barris—Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Joseph Cotton-Uncle Charlie—Shadow of a Doubt
Anthony Perkins—Norman Bates-Psycho
Jimmy Stewart-Elwood P. Dowd—Harvey