How I will never see these actors as another character ever again

[suzzer99]

Ned Beatty in Deliverance is the classic case of this I believe.

[Miggo]

Have to throw this in here for an older one. Larry Linville will always be Frank Burns.

[Five-Star]

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For me, every actor/actress in The West Wing.

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qft

[vozzie]

Henry Winkler will always be Arthur Fonzarelli. Ron Howard will also never be a director. He is just Richie Cunningham, a united states soldier.

[suzzer99]

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Have to throw this in here for an older one. Larry Linville will always be Frank Burns.

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Despite his prolific body of dinner theater work? Wow.

[elwoodblues]

I think this tends to happen most with decent (not great) or worse actors in iconic roles.

Mark Hammill in Star Wars even though most of the other actors were able to get beyond their roles

Henry Winkler as someone mentioned is a good choice

It might happen to Frodo

Adam West as Batman

Better actors are able to change their presence more -- (Hanibal Lecter, Forrest Gump, Chauncey Gardner)

[RiverFenix]

Seeing rodney dangerfield in Natural Born Killers made me laugh since hes always been Al, Thornton, and Larry Burns to me.

[stabn]

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following almost every response in this thread, every dynamite tv show's characters will always be that character. kiefer will always be jack bauer.

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Probably a bad example. Kiefer had too many rolls under his belt to be forced into that box. Although i'll go 30 rolls into his career and always see him as Dr. Daniel P. Schreber.

[Alobar]

Bill Paxton will always be the the guy from "True Lies" to me. Altho in my head his character from true lies is the same character from Aliens, he didn't die, instead of exploding with Michelle Rodriguez's mother he was popped into a different universe. GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER!!!

I guess you could argue then that I really just see him as the character from Aliens, but please don't because you would only look foolish.

[M2d]

Tony Danza will always be the Italian guy from NYC named "Tony"...oh, wait.

I wish Heather Graham would always be Rollergirl.

Seriously, though, and not that they have huge bodies of work, but I don't think I could see John Ratzenberger and George Wendt as anything but Cliff and Norm.