Have A Seat On The Casting Couch

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in the fantastic BBC mini-series.

Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in "Grapes Of Wrath".

Patrick Stewart as Macbeth, and Capt. Jean-Luc Picard.

Ingrid Bergman as Golda Meir in a made-for-TV movie, her last role before she died of cancer--brilliant work.

Mandy Patinkin as the Spanish swordsman Inigo Montoya in "The Princess Bride", which featured the best sword fight I've ever seen on the screen.
 
This just brings some great movies to mind...

How about Marylin Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot?

Bogey, Bacall, and Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo?

Bogey in that one about a black bird?

And Anthony Quinn in High Risk!
 
shouldazagged said:
Damian Lewis (a Brit!) as Major Dick Winters in "Band Of Brothers". But then I thought all the casting of that one was terrific.
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He was channeling Steve McQueen.

Steve McQueen in anything.

Lee Marvin as Chino, in The Wild One

Slim Pickens as stock detective Henry Beige in Rancho Deluxe.

Maria de Madeiros as Fabienne, Bruce Willis's neurotic girlfriend in Pulp Fiction

Severn Darden as Kropotkin in The President's Analyst

Harvey Keitel, in anything.
 
The 1992 Michael Mann production of, "The Last of the Mohicans" was exceptionally well cast .

Daniel Day-Lewis was superb as La Longue Carabine. The Indian roles were also very well filled.

I could really believe the plot, although most of us knew it since high school, back when James F. Cooper was often a required reading author. Actually, I read his books as a boy, and some Classic Comics editions of them.
 
Texas Star said:
Notice that Van Cleef's character left his rifle in the saddle boot on his horse outside the saloon. That happened in a lot of Westerns. I always wondered if any rifles were stolen that way. Maybe more people were just honest then.
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No, the horses were attack-trained. ;)

Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington and Andre Braugher in "Glory", maybe the best Civil War flick I've ever seen.

Judi Dench and Billy Connolly in "Mrs. Brown".

Richard Farnsworth in "The Gray Fox"--I think I was one of maybe seventeen people in the country who saw this fine little movie about an old train robber trying to go straight, but it was wonderful.

George Burns and Walter Matthau in "The Sunshine Boys".

Ben Kingsley as Gandhi.
 
mc5aw said:
My lists begins with Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, Alan Ladd as Shane, and ends with Steve McQueen as Frank Bullitt.
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My neighbor drove the insert/camera car on Bullitt. One hour and 5 minutes into the movie is when I turn it on. That gives me just enough time to settle in for the chase scene. After seeing it so many times, i can piece together different angles of the same chase! they used up to 4 or 5 camera setups at a time! Still love it to this day.

Chuck
 
Vivian Leigh as "Scarlett O'Hara" in Gone With the Wind.

I have seen video segments of several of the famous actresses of the day auditioning for the part, all in the same scene. Then the last segment showed Vivian Leigh. She was born for that role.
 
John Wayne and Lee Marvin in DONOVANS REEF
Lee Marvin in Cat Balou.
Victor Maclachlan and Maureen O'Hara in the QUIET MAN
 
Ok, I took this seriously

Will Smith in ‘Ali’

Denzel Washington as ‘Malcolm X’

Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in ‘The Princess Bride’

Nearly all of the actors in ‘Danger UXB’

Joachin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in ‘Walk the Line’ (I got confused and started thinking they WERE June and Johnny Cash)

Richard Burton in “Beckett” and ‘Dr. Faustus’ and the whole cast ( the cast an was an unknown British troupe and Andreas Teuber was the world’s greatest Mephistophilis )

Gregory Peck as ‘Atticus’ in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ and Frank Savage in ‘Twelve o’clock High’

Robert Mitchum in ‘Cape Fear’

Vivien Leigh and Clarke Gable in ‘Gone With the Wind’

Marlon Brando and Al Pachino in ‘The Godfather’

Robert Shaw as Quint in ‘Jaws’

Peter Lorre in ‘M’ (he doesn’t have to say much, but that plea at the end is dynamite)

Bogey in a lot of movies

Robert Di Niro in “The Raging Bull”

John Wayne in ‘The Shootist’ (Ok, John Wayne in a LOT of movies)

Clint Eastwood in ‘Josie Wales’ (I think this demanded more acting than just making a cool image) and 'Dirty Harry'.

Steve McQueen in ‘The Sand Pebbles’

Steve Buscemi in ‘Fargo’

Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Graduate’ and ‘Little Big Man’

Peter Sellers in ‘Being There’

George C. Scott in ‘Patton’ and Thomas Hudson in ‘Islands In The Stream’ (GOD but they messed up the ending to that movie.

Alec Guinness in ‘Bridge Over The River Kwai’

Jurgen Prochnow in ‘Das Boot’

Malcolm McDowell as Alex in ‘Clockwork Orange’

Paul Newman in ‘Cool Hand Luke’

Ray Milland in ‘The Lost Weekend’

Slim Pickens in 'Blazing Saddles'

Tom Skerrit in 'Top Gun'

Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'

Charlie Chaplain as the Little Tramp

I forgot Charleton Heston and Brynner in 'The Ten Commandments' and Heston in 'Ben Hur'

Yul Brynner in 'The King and I'
 
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Robert Duvall in "The Great Santini" and "Apocalypse Now."

Peter Finch in "Network."

Anthony Hopkins in "Hearts in Atlantis" and all the Hannibal movies.

Robert Duvall & Michael Caine in "Second Hand Lions."

Sean Connery & Michael Caine in "The Man Who Would be King."
 
I don't spend any of my money supporting the Hollywood crowd. They are always talking out against most everything that I like.
 
Caine and Connery in "The Man Who Would Be King" was one of my late wife's all-time favorite movies. I tried everywhere to find a VHS copy for her before she died, but couldn't--didn't have access to Amazon or eBay then. It's a great flick. She especially loved it because she would have paid good money to watch Connery sort socks, and this movie even had a brief shot of his bare behind. :D

Topol as Tevye in "Fiddler On The Roof"--one of the few older musicals that doesn't look dated and hokey to watch again.

Gary Cooper in "High Noon".
 
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