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Marlin Brando - Vito Corleone, Terry Malloy
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine, Sam Spade, Captain Queeg
Jimmy Stewart - Jefferson Smith, George Bailey, Ransom Stoddard
William Powell - Nick Charles, Clarence Day
Myrna Loy - Nora Charles
Clark Gable - Rhett Butler
Vivien Leigh - Scarlett O'Hara
Harold Russell - Homer Parrish (The Best Years of Our Lives)
 


If we’re going old school, Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night.
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Eastwood almost always picked good roles.   But my favorite is William Munny.   And Gene Hackman was excellent as Little Bill.

Somebody posted Steve McQueen in The Great Escape.   That whole cast was excellent.   

And while we're on the topic of cheesy WWII movies:

Lee Marvin - John Reisman

Robert Ryan - Colonel Breed

Donald Sutherland - Pinkley 

Donald Sutherland - Oddball

Alec Guinness - Lt. Colonel Nicholson

Richard Burton - Major John Smith

And non WWII movies:

Michael Caine- Lawrence Jamieson

Steve Martin - Freddy Benson

Denzel Washington - Creasy

Dakota Fanning - Pita

And not a movie but pretty much the whole cast of Band of Brothers nailed it.  But especially Damien Lewis and David Schwimmer.

 

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Duvall as Gus McCrae was already mentioned but I'd also say Tommy Lee Jones and really damn near the entire cast on Lonesome Dove

Jon Hamm and John Slattery - Mad Men

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War and Capote

Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird

Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia

Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln

George C. Scott - Patton

Ed Harris and Dennis Quaid - The Right Stuff

Tom Hanks - Sully

 

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22 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

There's some strange answers in this thread but.....

John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich

Bill Murray in Zombieland 

Kareem Abdul Jabbar in Airplane

Neil Patrick Harris in Harold and Kumar movies

Daniel Radcliffe in Episodes

Creed Bratton on The Office

Lance Briggs and Brent Musberger in Happy Endings 

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