Actors/Actresses who will always be a certain character.

[Starter Set]

Daniel Radcliffe will never escape from being Harry Potter in my mind

Speaking of, Rickman is Snape. He owned the role and the character perfectly.

Even when i read one of those books it's him i imagine as Snape.

[Arvandor]

Speaking of, Rickman is Snape. He owned the role and the character perfectly.

No. Say Alan Rickman and most will immediately say "Yippie kai yay, mother ****er."

[Basara]

No. Say Alan Rickman and most will immediately say "Yippie kai yay, mother ****er."

Beat me to it. I have to agree. Alan Rickman's most memorable role will always be Hans Gruber, the best action movie villain ever!

I was actually pretty disappointed in Rickman's portrayal of Snape in the movies. He seemed like he was phoning it in most of the time he was doing those movies. Snape had true disdain for Harry in the books. I never got that same sense from Snape in the movies. He was just kind of part of the background most of the time he was on screen rather than the terror he was in the books.

[Starter Set]

No. Say Alan Rickman and most will immediately say "Yippie kai yay, mother ****er."

Which is a Bruce Willis quote. Funny example.

[Greywolf]

Which is a Bruce Willis quote. Funny example.

Actually Rickman uses the quote mockingly on the Die Hard movies climax (Just before he gets killed). Not "funny" a quote but rather a most accurate one considering how memorable that particular scene is.

[MsAngel]

Beat me to it. I have to agree. Alan Rickman's most memorable role will always be Hans Gruber, the best action movie villain ever!

I was actually pretty disappointed in Rickman's portrayal of Snape in the movies. He seemed like he was phoning it in most of the time he was doing those movies. Snape had true disdain for Harry in the books. I never got that same sense from Snape in the movies. He was just kind of part of the background most of the time he was on screen rather than the terror he was in the books.

I felt the same way -- I don't know if it was bad scripting, direction, or just Rickman playing the character his own way, but I never saw him as Snape. He's practically a different character -- he doesn't sneer half as much, he doesn't yell half as much, and he's shown far more enough to fall under the "strict and not nice, but fair" category than the emotionally abusive, petty man of the books.

[TheInvisibleMan]

Neil Patrick Harris is definitely known more now for NPH (in the Harold and Kumar movies) or Barney Stinson than Doogie Howser

[simbob4000]

Neil Patrick Harris is definitely known more now for NPH (in the Harold and Kumar movies) or Barney Stinson than Doogie Howser

Nether those movies or that show were as big as Doogie Howser. And part of the whole gag with him as that version of himself in Harold and Kumar was that, that was Doogie Howser being so crazy.

[TheInvisibleMan]

Doogie Howser wasn't as big as people remember, it lasted 4 seasons and was barely in reruns

[lancerman]

Anyone whose played James Bond

[Oskar Von Strange]

The big ones which haven't been mentioned yet. . . .

Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster

Lon Chaney jr. as The Wolfman


Also, don't know if anyone feels this way, but Bryan Cranston to me will forever be known as Hal from MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE. Its part of the reason why I never bothered watching BREAKING BAD. Which I know isn't fair, but that's how I feel.

[simbob4000]

Doogie Howser wasn't as big as people remember, it lasted 4 seasons and was barely in reruns

And it was watched by more people than most shows on tv today. It was a pretty big show, especially when it started. Not the biggest show, but more people watched it than How I Met Your Mother.

[alex]

Rainn Wilson=Dwight K Schrute

[taylortexas]

Also, don't know if anyone feels this way, but Bryan Cranston to me will forever be known as Hal from MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE. Its part of the reason why I never bothered watching BREAKING BAD. Which I know isn't fair, but that's how I feel.

I think most people would have agreed with you prior to Breaking Bad. I would now imagine they'll always see him as Walter White. It's definitely the defining role of his career.

[simbob4000]

I think most people would have agreed with you prior to Breaking Bad. I would now imagine they'll always see him as Walter White. It's definitely the defining role of his career.

It's also a role on a show most people didn't watch.