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Old 07-20-2007, 09:46 PM
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Default Famous/historical people and the perfect actor to portray them..

I was thinking years ago that Morgan Freeman would be perfect as Nelson Mandela, when I saw that there is a movie in the works, I wondered who else would match up so perfectly.
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Old 07-20-2007, 10:14 PM
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Andy Dick as Mother Theresa.
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Old 07-21-2007, 12:12 AM
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I know it's been done, but George C Scott as Patton was a natural.

I again nominate Matt Damon as Tom Brady.
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Old 07-21-2007, 12:19 AM
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Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck, the lead in Nosferatu.
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Old 07-21-2007, 01:04 AM
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I think this one is pretty obvious:



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Old 07-21-2007, 01:06 AM
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Default Re: Famous/historical people and the perfect actor to portray them..

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Old 07-21-2007, 01:13 AM
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Default Re: Famous/historical people and the perfect actor to portray them..

On a more serious note, the website Separated At Birth notes this amazing set of twins:

Stanley Kubrick

Salman Rushdie
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Old 07-21-2007, 02:41 AM
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Whoa that was f*ckin chilling.
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Old 07-21-2007, 11:28 AM
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Default Re: Famous/historical people and the perfect actor to portray them..

While Henry Fonda is the most famous of the Lincoln portrayals,

Raymond Massey




is the greatest.

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Old 07-27-2007, 01:07 PM
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I didn't rate him as much of an actor before I saw Troy, but I think Brad Pitt makes a perfect Achilles, perhaps because the only emotion he has to portray in it is anger. He looks exactly as one would expect Achilles to look as well, godlike in every way.

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