lets cast historical figures.

[Admiral Shran]

I can't be arsed to download and re-upload a picture of all three, but I'd love to see Hugh Laurie play King George, Tsar Nicholas and Kaiser Wilhelm all in one movie. His resemblance to the first two is occasionally striking and the third is just for good measure.

Well, they were all cousins, so having the same guy play them all would be pretty cool.

 

[Christopher]

Laurie did play the future King George IV in Blackadder the Third, didn't he?

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ Yes, I thought of that when I saw the post, but I wasn't sure which of the many King Georges it referred to.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Josh Brolin did a phenomenal job playing George W. Bush, but sometime I think that Richard Dean Anderson looks like him...

I'd also like to see someone really hot play a young Mother Teresa.

 

[Yevetha]

They dotn look like eachother at all unless Anderson gets his face fat.

 

[Kelso]

Ben Browder as Bill Clinton.

Steve Carell as Groucho Marx.

 

[Yevetha]

Come on, Ben Bowder

 

[Mr Silver]

Philip Seymour Hoffman as L. Ron Hubbard

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

Well, if it hadn't already been done, I'd suggest Patrick Stewart as Lenin.

Oh what the hell, it was such perfect casting, it deserves to be said again.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Patrick Stewart as Lenin in Fall of Eagles was brilliant casting; it was also a bright spot in a huge sea of dull and really fucking boring.

 

[Morpheus 02]

My choices

Robert Knepper as..

...Abraham Lincoln

And Gregory Itzin

As Richard M. Nixon

(Don't know why it hasn't happened yet...)


And Iman

as Nefertiti

 

[Yevetha]

Terry Farrell.

Lara Flyn Boyle

 

[Avon]

^so who's playing who?

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ And do they count as historical figures?

 

[Yevetha]

Depends on your view of history...

 

[Christopher]

Also, Farrell is only six years older than Boyle. Why not just get whichever actress to play herself?

 

[Agent Richard07]

If we're doing actors, how about Mel Gibson as Henry Fonda?

 

[Mr Silver]

The only historical thing about Terry Farrell is having the first same sex kiss on trek and I don't think that warrants a live action production

I think its about time they made a proper "walk the line'esque" biopic of Elvis Presley. Anyone have any suggestions of who they could see playing "The King"?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Depends on your view of history...

And your veiw is what? "Historical figure" usually means a bit more than actor from the recent past or celebrities with a passing resemblance to each other.

 

[Christopher]

If we're doing actors, how about Mel Gibson as Henry Fonda?

I don't think so. Even if you grant a superficial facial resemblance (and I don't really see it), Gibson doesn't come close to Fonda's wholesomeness and charm.

And I'm with Nerys Myk -- do actors really count as "historical figures" in the way intended by the thread-starter? I think the idea was to focus on people who had a significant impact on history, the kind of people who'd be talked about in history books, and not just Hollywood history.