off the top of my head:
owen wilson
luke wilson
vince vaughn
jack black
....

6/21/2006 11:14:33 PM

michael jordan

6/21/2006 11:15:35 PM

adam sandler

Shaq

[Edited on June 21, 2006 at 11:18 PM. Reason : d]

6/21/2006 11:17:49 PM

paris hilton

6/21/2006 11:18:38 PM

Mr. T


?

6/21/2006 11:21:41 PM

JEFF GOLDBLUM

6/21/2006 11:28:14 PM

I suspect Andie MacDowell does this.

6/21/2006 11:43:39 PM

frequently chistopher walken

joe peschi won an oscar for playing himself





ok, these guy may just be extremely typecast but all their characters are equally as similar as the wilsons or black

[Edited on June 21, 2006 at 11:57 PM. Reason : a]

6/21/2006 11:55:11 PM

richard gere
michael douglas

6/21/2006 11:58:27 PM

Philip Seymour Hoffman
William H. Macy
Gary Oldman

6/22/2006 12:22:23 AM

oh add ed harris to that list of sarcasm spooky

6/22/2006 12:25:35 AM

i mean

it is really a question of people who play very diverse roles such as those that spookyjon facetiously posted or people who repeatedly play roles that are either very similar or are played very similar such as those posted in this thread.

6/22/2006 12:26:33 AM

u mean type-casted?

6/22/2006 12:27:09 AM

right like i posted earlier

i was just further explaining my pt b/c i'm sure spookyjon's post was directed towards me

but walkens last 20 or 30 roles and all of peschi's roles have been very similar

6/22/2006 12:29:14 AM

meryl streep always has to have a damned accent, but i consider that talent

6/22/2006 12:30:34 AM

Ben Stiller.

6/22/2006 12:45:49 AM

type-casted typically refers to supporting/b-actors.

I'm talking about LEAD actors who play the same character no matter what the plot is. The plot changes and their "character" simply reacts accordingly.

6/22/2006 12:54:17 AM

Naomi Watts

COME ON DOWN

*ducks*

6/22/2006 12:55:33 AM

I will boldly second Walken. Fact of the matter is that the man is so established that all he has to do is "play Walken" and he's done.

I support that.

6/22/2006 12:56:28 AM

Does your mother sew?

6/22/2006 1:08:33 AM

I disagree with Jack Black.

He was not "playing himself" in Nacho Libre, Shallow Hal or King Kong.

6/22/2006 1:13:18 AM

I mean, I was obviously joking when I posted, but the main pattern I'm seeing here is that people with distinctinve speech patterns get called out for "not acting". The Wilson Brothers, Jack Black, and especially Vince Vaughn, these people have all acted in some fairly diverse roles. They don't have the ability--or, rather, they haven't had the opportunity--to reinvent themselves with every role as some character actors do. I don't think, however, this means they "aren't acting" or that they "just play themselves".

6/22/2006 1:16:53 AM

^ I call bullshit. They've had plenty of chances to establish themselves, no?

6/22/2006 1:18:04 AM

The first two roles I remember Vince Vaugn in were a rapist and then a murderer.

I'm going to bed. Maybe I'll put forth a more thought-out position tomorrow.

6/22/2006 1:23:11 AM

But the thing is that now Christopher Walken has so much notoriety as a cult favorite actor that people write roles like that specifically for him to play.

6/22/2006 2:04:58 AM

the name of this thread should be 'actors who are perpetually typecast'

6/22/2006 2:10:57 AM

Tom Hanks!!1

wait how do you play this game??

Tom Hanks!!1

6/22/2006 2:13:35 AM

Keven Spacey

THERE, I SAID IT

6/22/2006 2:38:11 AM

Quote :

"adam sandler"

I think not. "Punch Drunk Love"

6/22/2006 3:13:27 AM

Quote :

"Philip Seymour Hoffman"

No way. He ususally plays arrogant assholes (big lebowski, patch adams, magnolia, punch drunk love) but not always (boogie nights), but even so, his range of arrogant assholes is very very good.
of course, this thread is about non-actors, so I guess that would mean PSH would have to be an arrogant asshole in real life, which i have no idea about.

6/22/2006 3:51:41 AM

Tom Cruise

6/22/2006 5:52:38 AM

I can't believe I am the first (in this thread) to say Keanu Reeves

6/22/2006 5:54:21 AM

which roles are similar for keanu reeves

matrices, constantine, ...?

6/22/2006 6:10:30 AM

Quote :

"Gary Oldman"

?
How in the world are Jim Gordon (Batman Begins) and Sirius Black (Harry Potter) acted at all in the same way?

6/22/2006 6:33:39 AM

I cant believe that Jack Nicholson hasn't been mentioned yet.

6/22/2006 6:35:50 AM

Quote :

"Tom Cruise"

yup

6/22/2006 7:25:31 AM

not that she's done much lately, but Winona Ryder
Steve Zahn
Katie Holmes

6/22/2006 8:00:10 AM

Nicholas Cage

love him though

6/22/2006 8:10:02 AM

Bobcat Goldthwait...

Though he's a prime example of an actor that doesn't really have a personal identity. They have to act the part even when they are off the camera. Tom Cruise also comes to mind but it seems that most actors are this way. Actors that aren't themselves, they just play themselves... if you will.

[Edited on June 22, 2006 at 8:14 AM. Reason : -]

6/22/2006 8:13:46 AM

Come on people. The most obvious choice here is Will Smith. A typical movie is Will Smith playing himself in a job that he doesn't have in real life. In Bad Boys it was Will Smith as himself as a cop. In Enemy of the State it was Will Smith as himself as a lawyer. The job might be different, but the charecter is always the same.

Honestly though, I like most of his movies, with Enemy of the State being my favorite.

6/22/2006 8:25:48 AM

Quote :

"Keven Spacey THERE, I SAID IT"

Hahahahaha. NO.

agentlion and HockeyRoman need to have their sarcasm detectors checked.

Quote :

"I think not. "Punch Drunk Love""

Try again. The only reason PDL was cute was that it was the same role Sandler always plays, but from his point of view. He still acts retarded and gets the girl, which is still lame. Or maybe I just really hate him.

6/22/2006 8:29:57 AM

6/22/2006 8:32:30 AM

Quote :

" cant believe that Jack Nicholson hasn't been mentioned yet"

Beat me by two hours.

6/22/2006 8:36:31 AM

if pierce brosnan was anything other than a sarcastic witty asshole in person i would be shocked. he gets the same role in every single movie.

6/22/2006 8:41:31 AM

vaughn started out with swingers and tried to do different roles but they didn't do well in the box office...now he's been typecasted. i hope that he's made a bigger name for himself he does more diverse roles like he tried to do early on...but that's just wishful thinking.

6/22/2006 8:45:12 AM

george clooney

(except "oh brother")

6/22/2006 8:45:41 AM

i don't think he played himself in intolerable cruelty either...never saw syriana so i wouldn't know.

6/22/2006 8:53:38 AM

....
reading this thread i'm mostly reading the names of actors who have an acting style as opposed to always playing themselves...
i guess it's hard to tell the difference sometimes...

6/22/2006 9:05:02 AM

Yes.

Acting Style = Jack Black.

Playing themselves = Eminem.

There's a pretty obvious difference.

6/22/2006 9:10:06 AM

Quote :

"Come on people. The most obvious choice here is Will Smith. A typical movie is Will Smith playing himself in a job that he doesn't have in real life. In Bad Boys it was Will Smith as himself as a cop. In Enemy of the State it was Will Smith as himself as a lawyer. The job might be different, but the charecter is always the same. "

6/22/2006 9:18:35 AM