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This page covers questions in the style "Who played [character's name or description] in [film title]?".
Note that Films: General also covers many questions in this style (particularly where there are several notable roles or performances in the same film).
Note also that in the interests of succinctness – never mind gender equality – I use the term 'actor' to include both male and female actors.
| Chuck 'Chuckie' Sullivan – a friend of Matt Damon's character in Good Will Hunting (1997) – also co–wrote the script with Damon |
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Ben Affleck |
Don Hewes (the male lead, opposite Judy Garland) in Easter Parade (1948)
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Fred Astaire |
| Flustered, inexperienced vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) |
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Rowan Atkinson |
| Voice of Zazu, the red–billed hornbill, in The Lion King (1994) | ||
| Teenage gang leader 'Pinky' Brown in Brighton Rock (1948) | |
Richard Attenborough |
| Father Christmas in Miracle on 34th Street (1994 version) | ||
| Louis Winthorpe III, the well–mannered and educated businessman who is tricked into swapping lives with Eddie Murphy in Trading Places (1983) | |
Dan Aykroyd |
| Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate | |
Anne Bancroft |
| Female lead in Doctor at Sea, opposite Dirk Bogarde | |
Brigitte Bardot |
| Elliott's 5–year–old sister Gertie, in E.T. the Extra–Terrestrial (1982) | |
Drew Barrymore |
| Mr. Potter, the villainous, wheelchair–bound banker in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | |
Lionel Barrymore |
| 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' in Titanic (1998) | |
Kathy Bates |
| Miss Sharon Stone in The Flintstones (1994 – after Sharon Stone turned it down) | |
Halle Berry |
| Foxxy Cleopatra (the leading female character) in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) | |
Beyoncé (Knowles) |
| Dewey Finn (the central character) in School of Rock (2003) | |
Jack Black |
| Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings | |
Cate Blanchett |
| Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: the Golden Age (2007) | ||
| One of six incarnations of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There (2007) | ||
| 'Young tearaway' Tom Riley (killer of PC George Dixon) in The Blue Lamp (1949) |
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Dirk Bogarde |
| Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny | |
Humphrey Bogart |
| Jareth, the Goblin king, in Labyrinth (1986) | |
David Bowie |
| Pontius Pilate in Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) | ||
| Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953) | |
Marlon Brando |
| Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls (1955) | ||
| Male lead (Paul) in Last Tango in Paris (1972) | ||
| Clark Kent's father in Superman (1978) | ||
| Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979)
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| Voice of Fiver in Watership Down (1978) | |
Richard Briers |
| Denis Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) | |
Jim Broadbent |
| Pharaoh Rameses II in The Ten Commandments (1956) | |
Yul Brynner |
| Chris Adams – the laconic leader of the seven gunfighters, who always dressed in black – in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and its first sequel | ||
| God in Oh God! (with John Denver) aged 80, 1986 | |
George Burns |
| Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (1958) | |
Richard Burton |
| Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) | ||
| Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain | |
Michael Caine |
| Scrooge in A Muppet Christmas Carol | ||
| Austin Powers's father, Sir Nigel Powers, in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) | ||
| Dr. Robotnik (the chief antagonist) in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) | |
Jim Carrey |
| Lara in Dr. Zhivago | |
Julie Christie |
| Bathsheba Everdene in Far from the Madding Crowd | ||
| Gertrude (Hamlet's mother) to Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1997) | ||
| Scene–stealing cameo as the sheriff in Silverado (1985) | |
John Cleese |
| Inspector Dreyfus in The Pink Panther 2 (2009 – sequel to the 2006 remake, starring Steve Martin as Clouseau) | ||
| Dr. Frankenstein in the original film (1931) |
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Colin Clive |
| Baird Whitlock – an actor playing Julius Caesar in a 1951 film with the same title (Hail, Caesar!) – in Hail, Caesar! (2016) | |
George Clooney |
| Alexandra (Alex) Forrest – who develops a Fatal Attraction for Michael Douglas after a very brief affair | |
Glenn Close |
| Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) | ||
| Character who became Pope in The Pope Must Die | |
Robbie Coltrane |
| 12 Angry Men (1957): Juror No. 3 – the last to hold out for a guilty verdict | |
Lee J. Cobb |
| Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October | |
Sean Connery |
| Daniel Dravot (the eponymous character) in The Man who Would be King (1975) | ||
| Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1987) | |
Kevin Costner |
| Pulp Western author Holly Martins (the protagonist) in The Third Man | |
Joseph Cotten |
| Colin Smith (the central character) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) | |
Tom Courtenay |
| Elizabeth I in the film version of Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1992) | |
Quentin Crisp |
| Father O'Malley in Going My Way 1944 (Best Actor Oscar) and The Bells of St. Mary's 1945 (nominated) | |
Bing Crosby |
| Paul Newman's co–star in The Color of Money |
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Tom Cruise |
| Ophelia – a prostitute who agrees to help Dan Aykroyd's character, in exchange for a financial reward once he is exonerated – in Trading Places (1983) | |
Jamie Lee Curtis |
| Dr. Who in both films (Dr. Who and the Daleks 1965, Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD 1966) – but not on television | |
Peter Cushing |
| Father of Chesney Hawkes's character in Buddy's Song | |
Roger Daltrey |
| Juliet to Leonardo di Caprio's Romeo (1996) | |
Clare Danes |
| 'Baby Jane' in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane | |
Bette Davis |
| Female lead in Move over Darling (1963) – replaced Marilyn Monroe | |
Doris Day |
| Cal Trask, Jim Stark, Jett Rink | |
James Dean |
| Voice of Dory in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016) | |
Ellen DeGeneres |
| Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974) | |
Robert de Niro |
| Al Capone in The Untouchables (1987) | ||
| The monster in Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) – Branagh played Frankenstein | ||
| The Penguin in Batman Returns (1992) | |
Danny DeVito |
| Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999); Willie Wonka in the 2005 (musical) version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |
Johnny Depp |
| Yorick in Kenneth Branagh's 1996 version of Hamlet (in silent flashbacks during the gravedigger scene) | |
Ken Dodd |
| Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades series (2015–18); Pa in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (2021) | |
Jamie Dornan |
| Skylar – a British orphan about to graduate from Harvard – Matt Damon's love interest in Good Will Hunting (1997) | |
Minnie Driver |
| Played a detective in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), and a psychologist in the 1999 remake | |
Faye Dunaway |
| Billy the Kid in Young Guns (1988) | |
Emilio Estevez |
| Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) | |
Edith Evans |
| Rosemary (Woodhouse) in Rosemary's Baby | |
Mia Farrow |
| Forrest Gump's mother | |
Sally Field |
| Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love | |
Joseph Fiennes |
| Edward L. Masry – the title character's lawyer – in Erin Brockovich (2000) | |
Albert Finney |
| The artist Vermeer in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) (Note: based on a novel, so not really a biopic) | |
Colin Firth |
| Morpheus – a human freed from the Matrix, who finds the protagonist Neo – in The Matrix (1999) | |
Laurence Fishburne |
| Princess Leia in Star Wars (1977, sequels and prequels) | |
Carrie Fisher |
| Played the female lead in the Hitchcock films Rebecca (1940) and Suspicion (1941) – winning an Oscar for the latter | |
Joan Fontaine |
| Sidney Poitier's teacher in The Blackboard Jungle | |
Glenn Ford |
| Han Solo in Star Wars (1977, sequels and prequels) | |
Harrison Ford |
| Male co–star of Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffiths in Working Girl | ||
| US President James Marshall in Air Force One (1997) | ||
| Co–starred with Robert de Niro as the child prostitute in Taxi Driver (1976), aged 14 | |
Jodie Foster |
| Would–be assassin in Day of the Jackal (1973) | |
Edward Fox |
| The chauffeur (Hoke Colburn) in Driving Miss Daisy (1989) | |
Morgan Freeman |
| 'Red' Redding in The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | ||
| God in Bruce Almighty (2003) | ||
| Baron Bomburst, the villain, in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) – former Bond villain | |
Gert Fröbe |
| Bamber Gascoigne in Starter for Ten (2006) | |
Mark Gatiss |
| Voice of Rocky, the Rhode Island Red rooster, in Chicken Run (2000) | |
Mel Gibson |
| Det. Sgt. Roger Murtaugh – veteran cop who gets landed with the reckless Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) in Lethal Weapon (and sequels) | |
Danny Glover |
| Computer operator Terri Doolittle in Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) – her second mainstream role | |
Whoopi Goldberg |
| Trapper John in M*A*S*H | |
Elliot Gould |
| Submarine commander in Operation Petticoat | |
Cary Grant |
| 'Love rat' Daniel Cleaver in the two Bridget Jones films | |
Hugh Grant |
| Frances 'Baby' Houseman in Dirty Dancing (1987) | |
Jennifer Grey |
| Master of ceremonies in Cabaret (1972) | |
Joel Grey |
| Eight members of the D'Ascoyne family in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | |
Alec Guinness |
| Professor Marcus (lead role) in The Ladykillers (1955) | ||
| King Feisal of Iraq in Lawrence of Arabia | ||
| Obi–Wan Kenobi in Star Wars (original trilogy) | ||
| The US president in Absolute Power (1996) | |
Gene Hackman |
| Little John in Robin Hood (1922, aged 30), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and in Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950) | |
Alan Hale (Sr.) |
| Male lead (Professor Robert Langdon) in The Da Vinci Code (2006) | |
Tom Hanks |
| Both Kray twins in Legend (2015) | |
Tom Hardy |
| Joe Lampton in Room at the Top (1959) | |
Laurence Harvey |
| King Arthur in Camelot (1967) | |
Richard Harris |
| Title role in A Man called Horse (1970) | ||
| Title role in Cromwell (1970) | ||
| Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films | ||
| The ghost of Captain Daniel Gregg in The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) | |
Rex Harrison |
| Julius Caesar in Cleopatra (1963) | ||
| Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (1964) | ||
| Fantine in Les Misérables (2012 – Oscar–winning role) | |
Anne Hathaway |
| Victor Laszlo – fugitive Czech resistance leader, married to Ilsa Lund (played by Ingrid Bergman) – in Casablanca (1942) | |
Paul Henreid |
| Sabrina in Sabrina Fair (original 1954 version) | |
Audrey Hepburn |
| The ageing Maid Marian opposite Sean Connery in Robin & Marian (1976) | ||
| Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1950) | |
Charlton Heston |
| Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956) | ||
| Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968) | ||
| The Toymaker in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) | |
Benny Hill |
| Computer expert Professor Pence in The Italian Job (1969 original version) | ||
| The butler, Stevens (central character) in The Remains of the Day (1993) | |
Anthony Hopkins |
| Mario in Super Mario Brothers (1993) | |
Bob Hoskins |
| Morticia in The Addams Family (1991) | |
Angelica Houston |
| Voices of Hazel in Watership Down (1978), Aragorn in the animated version of Lord of the Rings (1978), and Snitter in The Plague Dogs (1982) | |
Jon Hurt |
| Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (also on Broadway – the role was written for him by Tennessee Williams) | |
Burl Ives |
| Wolverine (the central character) in the X–Men series (2000–9) | |
Hugh Jackman |
| Jean Valjean in the film version of the musical Les Misérables (2012) | ||
| Matron in four Carry On films (Nurse 1959, Doctor 1963, Again Doctor 1969, Matron 1971) | |
Hattie Jacques |
| Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider films | |
Angelina Jolie |
| Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein (1939) | |
Boris Karloff |
| 'Clean–up expert' Winston 'the Wolf' Wolfe in Pulp Fiction (1994) | |
Harvey Keitel |
| Major Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan in M*A*S*H (1970 – Oscar nominated)
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Sally Kellerman |
| Ray Milland's intended victim in Dial M for Murder (1954) | |
Grace Kelly |
| Anna in The King and I (1956) | |
Deborah Kerr |
| Lois Lane to Christopher Reeve's Superman (4 films, 1978–87) | |
Margot Kidder |
| Jaws in the Bond movies (7'2" tall) | |
Richard Kiell |
| Jim Morrison in The Doors (1991) | |
Val Kilmer |
| Doc Holliday in Tombstone (1993) | ||
| Batman in Batman Forever (1995) | ||
| Simon Templar in The Saint (1997) | ||
| Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald in Convoy (1978) | |
Kris Kristofferson |
| The witch Eglantine Price in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | |
Angela Lansbury |
| The mother of Elvis Presley's character (Chadwick 'Chad' Gates) in Blue Hawaii (1961) | ||
| Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) | |
Charles Laughton |
| Voice of Lemony Snicket in … a Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) | |
Jude Law |
| Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) | |
Vivien Leigh |
| Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) | ||
| Bart – the black railroad worker who is duplicitously appointed sheriff of Rock Ridge (his most famous role) | |
Cleavon Little |
| Q in the Bond movies (up to 1999 – died in a road accident, aged 85, a few weeks after the release of his last, The World is Not Enough) | |
Desmond Llewellyn |
| Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (1991) | |
Christopher Lloyd |
| Doña Jimena Díaz, wife of the title character, in El Cid (1961) | |
Sophia Loren |
| Joe Carraclough – the boy who owned Lassie – in Lassie Come Home (1943) | |
Roddy McDowell |
| Edward I in Braveheart (1995) | |
Patrick McGoohan |
| Obi–Wan Kenobi, in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (episodes I–III) | |
Ewan McGregor |
| Prissy in Gone with the Wind (1939) | |
Butterfly McQueen |
| Chief firefighter in The Towering Inferno (1974) | |
Steve McQueen |
| The pirate Edward Teach (Blackbeard) in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, On Stranger Tides (2011) | |
Ian McShane |
| Friar Tuck in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) | |
Mike McShane |
| Male lead in Something's Got To Give (1962), Marilyn Monroe's unfinished last film (it was never finished) | |
Dean Martin |
| Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther (2006 remake), and sequel The Pink Panther 2 (2009) | |
Steve Martin |
| Chino – Brando's chief rival in The Wild One (1953) | |
Lee Marvin |
| Played characters named Captain Jeffrey Spalding, Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Rufus T. Firefly, Otis B. Driftwood, Dr. Hugo Z.
Hackenbush, J. Cheever Loophole, S. Quentin Quale, Wolf J. Flywheel, Ronald Kornblow, and Detective Sam Grunion
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Groucho Marx |
| Adam Trask – the father of James Dean's character – in East of Eden (1955) | |
Raymond Massey |
| Miss Moneypenny in 14 Bond films (died 2007) | |
Lois Maxwell |
| Pip as an adult in David Lean's Great Expectations | |
John Mills |
| The Green Fairy in Moulin Rouge! (2001) | |
Kylie Minogue |
| Fagin in Oliver! (1968) | |
Ron Moody |
| God in Dogma (1999) | |
Alanis Morissette |
| Max Bialystock (down–at–heel producer, and the lead character) in the original (pre–musical) version of The Producers (1968) | |
Zero Mostel |
| Dustin Hoffman's room–mate in Tootsie (1982) | |
Bill Murray |
| Jedi knight Qui–Gon Jinn in Star Wars: the Phantom Menace | |
Liam Neeson |
| Major Major in Catch–22 (1970) | |
Bob Newhart |
| Papa Elf in Elf (2003) – by now a veteran US comedian and actor | ||
| Police Officer Murphy in Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) | |
Paul Newman |
| The Joker in Batman (1989) | |
Jack Nicholson |
| US President James Dale in Mars Attacks! (1996 – also plays property developer Art Land) | ||
| Davy Jones (the ghostly main antagonist) in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead man's Chest (2006) and … At World's End (2008) | |
Bill Nighy |
| Judy Barton, a.k.a. Madeleine Elster (the female lead) in Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
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Kim Novak |
| Cathy to Olivier's Heathcliff (1939) | |
Merle Oberon |
| Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) | |
Maureen O'Hara |
| George Smiley in Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy (2011) | |
Gary Oldman |
| Zeus in Clash of the Titans (1981) | |
Sir Laurence Olivier |
| Reginald Johnston, Pu–Yi's Scottish tutor, in The Last Emperor (1987) | |
Peter O'Toole |
| Young, idealistic lawyer in And Justice for All | |
Al Pacino |
| Blind ex–serviceman in Scent of a Woman | ||
| Wendy in Hook (1992) | |
Gwyneth Paltrow |
| Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1956) | |
Gregory Peck |
| Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil (1978) | ||
| Paul "Fred" Jarvak (the male lead) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) | |
George Peppard |
| Norman Bates in Psycho (Hitchcock's 1960 original) | |
Anthony Perkins |
| Evil emperor Commodus in Gladiator | |
Joaquin Phoenix |
| Zorro, Jesse James and Ferdinand de Lesseps | |
Tyrone Power |
| Darth Vader in the Star Wars series (and the Green Cross Man!) | |
Dave Prowse |
| US President Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day (1996) | |
Bill Pullman |
| Some Like it Hot (1959): 'spats' Columbo – the gangster leader from whom Joe and Terry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) are fleeing | |
George Raft |
| Former star of Cheers! (in which he played postman and know–all Cliff Calvin): his voice has featured in every Pixar animated film (up to 2016), including: Hamm the Piggy Bank in the Toy Story series (1995, 1999, 2010, 2018), P.T. Flea, the Circus Ring Leader, and Fly in Bug Bar, in A Bug's Life (1998), The Abominable Snowman in the Monsters, Inc. series (2001, 2013), The school of moonfish in Finding Nemo (2003), The Underminer in The Incredibles (2004), Mack the truck in the Cars series (2006, 2011, 2017), Mustafa the waiter in Ratatouille (2007), John in WALL–E (2008),Tom the builder in Up (2009), Gordon the guard in Brave (2012), Fritz the mind worker (sic) in Inside Out (2015), Earl the velociraptor in The Good Dinosaur (2015), Bill the crab in Finding Dory (2016) | |
John Ratzenberger |
| Bill Sikes in Oliver! (1968) | |
Oliver Reed |
| Dr. Jonathan Harker in Bram Stoker's Dracula | |
Keanu Reeves |
| Computer programmer Thomas A. Anderson (a.k.a. hacker Neo) – the protagonist in The Matrix (1999) | ||
| Female lead (Kathy Selden) in Singin' in the Rain | |
Debbie Reynolds |
| Edward Teague – the father of Captain Jack Sparrow – in the Pirates of the Caribbean films | |
Keith Richards |
| Hans Gruber, the chief antagonist, in Die Hard (1988) | |
Alan Rickman |
| Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) | ||
| Lancy Howard in The Cincinnati Kid | |
Edward G. Robinson |
| Queen Elizabeth I in both Fire Over England (1937) and The Sea Hawk (1940) – her most notable role (according to Wikipedia) | |
Flora Robson |
| Elaine Robinson in The Graduate | |
Katharine Ross |
| Etta Place in Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid | ||
| The wife of 'Goose' in Top Gun (1986) | |
Meg Ryan |
| Cameo role as Amanda Grayson, Spock's human mother, in Star Trek (2009) | |
Winona Ryder |
| Female lead (Jeanne) in Last Tango in Paris (1972) | |
Maria Schneider |
| Mr. Bumble, the beadle, in Oliver! | |
Harry Secombe |
| Shop steward Fred Kite in I'm Alright Jack (1959) | |
Peter Sellers |
| Dodger Lane (convict who breaks back into prison after committing a robbery) in Two Way Stretch (1960) | ||
| Clare Quilty (a doppelgänger to the narrator of the novel, Humbert Humbert, by whom he is eventually shot dead) in Lolita (1962) | ||
| Simple–minded gardener Chance (he had no other name – given the name Chauncey Gardiner) in Being There (1969) | ||
| Father and son who played a father and son in Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987) | |
Martin and Charlie Sheen |
| Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet (1948); Varinia, fictional wife of the title character, in Spartacus (1960) | |
Jean Simmons |
| Maggio in From here to Eternity |
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Frank Sinatra |
| Drug addict Frankie Machine in the 1955 film The Man With The Golden Arm (Oscar nominated) | ||
| Title role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
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Maggie Smith |
| Mother Superior in Sister Act | ||
| US Marine captain Steven Hiller in Independence Day (1996) | |
Will Smith |
| Huggy Bear in Starsky & Hutch (2003 – rap artist) | |
Snoop Doggy Dogg |
| Corrupt motorcycle cop in Magnum Force | |
David Soul |
| Goalkeeper for the Allies' team in Escape to Victory (saves a penalty right at the end of the match) | |
Sylvester Stallone |
| Benito Mussolini (twice), Al Capone, Napoleon | |
Rod Steiger |
| Brando's brother in On the Waterfront | ||
| The villain, Jud Fry, in Oklahoma! | ||
| Buttons the Clown in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) | |
James Stewart |
| Professor Xavier in the X–Men series (2000–9) | |
Patrick Stewart |
| Gaylord Focker in Meet the Parents (2000 and sequels) | |
Ben Stiller |
| Lead role (single mother Donna Sheridan) in Mamma Mia! The Movie (2008) | |
Meryl Streep |
| Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968) | |
Barbra Streisand |
| Dolly in Hello Dolly (1969) | ||
| Rose DeWitt Bukater (the Kate Winslet character) as an old woman, in Titanic (1997) – a former Universal Studios star of the 1930s | |
Gloria Stuart |
| Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (1970) | |
Donald Sutherland |
| Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1950) | |
Gloria Swanson |
| The White Witch in the first two Chronicles of Narnia films — The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and Prince Caspian (2008) | |
Tilda Swinton |
| Female lead (Sophie Neveu) in The Da Vinci Code (2006) | |
Audrey Tautou |
| Velvet Brown in National Velvet (1944) | |
Elizabeth Taylor |
| Pearl Slaghoople – Fred Flintstone's mother–in–law – in The Flintstones (1994) | ||
| Dr. Alice Krippin – creator of the cancer cure that inadvertently killed 90% of humanity – in I Am Legend (2007) | |
Emma Thompson |
| The (unnamed) US President in Love, Actually (2003) | |
Billy Bob Thornton |
| Mia Wallace (female lead) in Pulp Fiction | |
Uma Thurman |
| One–armed stranger in Bad Day at Black Rock | |
Spencer Tracey |
| Edna Turnblad, mother of the 'pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad, in Hairspray (2007) | |
John Travolta |
| Lacombe (one of the scientific investigators) in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (French film director) | |
Francois Truffaut |
| The Ice Queen in Tommy (1975) | |
Tina Turner |
| Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (a.k.a. Mad Max 3, 1985) | ||
| Jo (central character) in A Taste of Honey (1961) | |
Rita Tushingham |
| Caractacus Potts (owner of the eponymous flying car) in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | |
Dick Van Dyke |
| The Odessa File (1974): German journalist Peter Miller, who tracks down the Nazi commander who murdered his father, a fellow Nazi officer | |
Jon Voight |
| Father Lankester Merrin (the older of the two priests) in The Exorcist | |
Max Von Sydow |
| Calvera, leader of the bandits, in The Magnificent Seven | |
Eli Wallach |
| Mrs. Wilkinson – the eponymous character's dance teacher – in Billy Elliot (2000) (Wikipedia gives her first name as both Georgia and Sandra) | |
Julie Walters |
| Philadelphia (1993): the lawyer who represents Tom Hanks's character in his wrongful dismissal case | |
Denzel Washington |
| Belle in Disney's live–action version of Beauty and the Beast (2017) | |
Emma Watson |
| Big Sam McCord in the 1960 comedy Western North to Alaska | |
John Wayne |
| Voice of Paddington Bear, in Paddington (2014) and Paddington 2 (2017) | |
Ben Whishaw |
| The Artful Dodger (Jack Dawkins) in Oliver! | |
Jack Wild |
| Eponymous factory owner in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory | |
Gene Wilder |
| Peter Pan in Hook (1992) | |
Robin Williams |
| Sam (the pianist) in Casablanca – sings As Time Goes By | |
Dooley Wilson |
| Co–starred as distraught housewife Sofia, in The Color Purple (Spielberg, 1985) | |
Oprah Winfrey |
| Daughter (of Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson) in Terms of Endearment | |
Debra Winger |
| Jack Regan in The Sweeney (2012 film version) | |
Ray Winstone |
| Elle Woods (central character) in Legally Blonde (and sequel) | |
Reese Witherspoon |
| Frodo in the Lord of the Rings trilogy | |
Elijah Wood |
| Judy in Rebel Without a Cause (aged 16) | |
Natalie Wood |
| Susan Walker in the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street – aged 8 | ||
| Maria in the film version of West Side Story | ||
| Disabled ex–marine Jake Sully – the central character – in Avatar (2009) | |
Sam Worthington |
| Brian Roberts (the male lead) in Cabaret (1992) | |
Michael York |
| Basil Exposition (parodying Q and M in Bond) in the Austin Powers series | ||
| Superman's Krypton mother, Lara (1978, and sequels II and IV) – died in 2011 | |
Susannah York |
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