By popular demand.

Originally posted by egregore:
Alan Rickman, Hans Gruber, Die Hard

Kurtwood Smith, Clarence Boddicker, Robocop

Originally posted by bald1:
I'm late to this thread with 99% of my choices already cited. But I don't think I saw any of these mentioned. And I cite but one of their better roles among many choices.

--Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund in Casablanca
--Helen Mirran - Victoria in Red
--Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter
--Judi Dench - M in Bond flicks
--Christopher Walken as Nick Chevotarevich in The Deerhunter
--Grace Kelly - Frances Stevens in To Catch a Thief
--Michael Caine As Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File
--Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings

Originally posted by sigarmsp226:
Also, I really love watching the old Clint Eastwood Westerns - Pale Rider, Hang ‘em High, Outlaw Josey Wales, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

I purposely limited that initial post to actors and their roles in TV and TV mini-series, reason being, there is such a long history of film, and it’s a global…business, industry, artform? The possibilities are endless, and therefore unwieldy.

Here are a few that occur to me:

Robert Mitchum. Capt. Murrell. The Enemy Below
Curd Jürgens. Von Stolberg. The Enemy Below

Jack Palance. Jack Wilson. Shane

Robert Redford. Jeremiah Johnson. Jeremiah Johnson
Will Gear. “Bear Claw” Chris Lapp. Jeremiah Johnson

Marlin Brando. Don Vito Corleone. The Godfather
So many outstanding performances in this movie, consider Brando representative

Tom Cruise. Lt. Daniel Caffee. A Few Good Men
Jack Nicholson. Col. Nathan R. Jessup. A Few Good Men
Kevin Bacon? Probably

Barry Pepper. Pvt. Jackson. Saving Private Ryan
Tom Sizemore. Sgt. Horvath. Saving Private Ryan

See what I mean? If this thread has legs, I’ll add to my list.

DeNiro (sorry boys) in Heat as Neil McCauley. Just hardcore and ruthless.

Damon (sorry again) in Rainmaker.

William Dafoe (personal favorite) as Virgil Cole in Flight of the Intruder. I’m as straight as a razor but I love that actor and that role more so than most anything I have ever seen. “I hate SAMS” and “Normally I’m blabby but I sat on this one” and “flow with it” and “Do it Sandy. I’d do it for you!”

Denzel - Creasy - Man On Fire

Gary Oldman

State of Grace

Darkest Hour

True Romance

Fifth Element

Sean Connery
The James Bond series. The Rock. The Untouchables.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The Hunt for Red October.
James Cagney - White Heat.
Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca. Sahara. The Maltese Falcon. Treasure of the Sierra Madre. To Have and Have Not. Key Largo.
John Wayne
The Searchers. Red River. True Grit. The Cavalry Trilogy. The Cowboys. Sands of Iwo Jima. They Were Expendable. The Shootist.
Henry Fonda
The Oxbox Incident. My Darling Clementine. The Tin Star. Once Upon a Time in the West.

In no particular order:

Denzel Washington, Alonzo, Training Day
John Wayne, Rock, In Harm's Way
John Wayne, Chance Buckman, Hellfighters
R. Lee Ermey, Gny. Sgt. Hartmann, Full Metal Jacket
Full Cast, All Characters, Platoon

Kurt Russell - The Thing
Sir Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
Harrison Ford - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Clancy Brown - Shawshank, Highlander
Bruce Willis - Diehard
Full Cast - Aliens

Clint Eastwood ~ all his the spaghetti westerns.

quote:

Originally posted by Prefontaine:

William Dafoe (personal favorite) as Virgil Cole in Flight of the Intruder. I’m as straight as a razor but I love that actor and that role more so than most anything I have ever seen. “I hate SAMS” and “Normally I’m blabby but I sat on this one” and “flow with it” and “Do it Sandy. I’d do it for you!”

Dafoe, Brad Johnson and even Danny Glover didn’t do a bad job. I read Flight of the Intruder (and the later Jake Grafton) books by Stephen Coonts. The movie wasn’t a terrible adaptation and I loved the Flying Pig getting some screen time.

I actually like Dafoe as Marcus in John Wick “Let’s get on with this. Whatever the fuck this is” better than Virgil Cole.

John Malkovich - Marvin R.E.D.

Javier Bardem - Anton Chigurh No Country for Old Men

Max von Sydow - Joubert 3 Days of the Condor

Frank Sinatra - The Detective

Charlton Heston - Moses; Ben-Hur; El Cid
Max von Sydow - Father Merrin, The Exorcist
Charles Bronson - Harmonica, Once Upon a Time in the West; Paul Kersey, Death Wish
Terrence Hill - "The Right Hand of the Devil", They Call Me Trinity
Bruce Willis - John McClane, Die Hard
James Woods - Gregory Powell, The Onion Field; Jack Crow, Vampires
Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry

Kurt Russell in -- Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Tombstone and Soldier.

Guy Pierce - LA Confidential
Clint Eastwood - Outlaw Josey Wales
Daniel Day Lewis - Gangs of New York, In the Name of the Father