Also... Living person = historical figure?
lets cast historical figures.
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^ Well, he's participated in some fairly historical events, such as the 2000 Peace Talks. And have you seen some of the other suggestions on this thread?!
^ I just had to use my David Duchovny/Norway Killer pic. The resemblance is pretty funny.
Yeah, it was a becoming a straw on a camel's back kinda thing for me.
He's too dark and his voice is too deep.
I don't know if he's ever played him on screen. He does provide the voice at the Gettysburg museum. That makes him one of at least 2 Law & Order stars who has played Lincoln. Dann Florek (Captain Cragen) played the great emancipator on the much reviled UPN sitcom The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer.
And doesn't look a damn thing like either of them. (But then, he didn't look like Zephram Cochrane either.
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Rommel.......Ed Harris.
Yet another WWII German soldier for Harris, who already played Major Konig in Enemy at the Gates.
Sacha Baron Cohen should play Freddie Mercury.
Sometimes I think David Tennant would have been a better Brian Clough than Michael Sheen, though Sheen was great too. (It's just that neither of them are as perfect as Colm Meaney was as Don Revie.)
Sacha Baron Cohen should play Freddie Mercury.
Funny you should say that:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11340336
@ The Borgified Corpse, you have to hand it to Sheen - not many people could play Cloughie, Kenneth Williams and Tony Blair!
Tennant played another soccer backroom great, Jimmy Murphy in United, about the Munich tragedy. As regards The Damned United, I was surprised to see in the end credits how unlike Clough's assistant Peter Taylor Timothy Spall looked. Taylor was a much more handsome, dapper figure. Ditto hangman Alfred Pierrepoint, who Spall played in Pierrepoint.
Timothy completes his hat-trick of playing real-life characters who he looks nothing like with his Winston Churchill in The King's Speech.
Tennant played another soccer backroom great, Jimmy Murphy in United, about the Munich tragedy. As regards The Damned United, I was surprised to see in the end credits how unlike Clough's assistant Peter Taylor Timothy Spall looked. Taylor was a much more handsome, dapper figure. Ditto hangman Alfred Pierrepoint, who Spall played in Pierrepoint.
Timothy completes his hat-trick of playing real-life characters who he looks nothing like with his Winston Churchill in The King's Speech.
^Yeah, actors who play historical figures often look nothing like them. My favorite example: the real Butch Cassidy looked nothing like Paul Newman, who played him in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but bore a striking resemblance to Charles Dierkop, who played a minor member of Butch's gang in the same movie. That just doesn't seem quite fair to me.
^ Let's face it, few people look like Paul Newman or Robert Redford. Though Tom Berenger and William Katt made for decent facsimiles in Butch and Sundance: The Early Days.
Richard Crenna as Ross Perot comes to mind.
It doesn't bother me when actors don't like exactly like the people they're playing - a passing resemblance is good enough. What's more important is does the actor capture what that person was like.
A good example is Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon. Many people complained that he didn't look anything like Nixon. But what difference does it make? He captured Nixon's personality brilliantly.
A good example is Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon. Many people complained that he didn't look anything like Nixon. But what difference does it make? He captured Nixon's personality brilliantly.
Really? When was this and in what circumstance?At one point, Hugh Jackman was touted to play Bill Bixby.
I'm a big fan of Bixby and Jackman, but honestly I don't really see it working.
I thought he looked a lot more like Nixon than Anthony Hopkins did but both captured the man's personality brilliantly.
Nixon has also been played by Philip Baker Hall and Dan Hedaya who look a lot more like him than Hopkins or Langella but it was the latter two who each got Oscar-nommed for playing Tricky Dicky. Interestingly, this makes him the only President to have been played by two actors who have been nominated thusly for playing the role.
I also find it a curious little coincidence that Frank and Anthony have also played Zorro, while Langella has played Dracula and Hopkins has been Van Helsing.
Doris Day didn’t look anything like Ruth Etting, whom she played in Love Me or Leave Me. She didn’t sing like Etting either.
And she sure as hell didn’t look like Calamity Jane.
Actually, the whole time I watched Homeland, I kept thinking how much Mandy Patinkin looked like Stanley Kubrick but with a bit more hair on the top of his head.
Spielberg
Mandy Patinkin
