It doesn't matter what else he or she does, they'll always be...

[Small Man Big Horse]

Or the "They might be a great actor who you love in a variety of different roles, but you always think of them as one specific character" thread. And I'm not sure how much mileage this has in it, but due to watching Gunpowder Milkshake I found myself thinking "Hey, it's Tyres from Spaced". And I bloody love Michael Smiley, and think he's pretty superb in everything he does, but it's always "Oh, so that's what Tyres from Spaced is up to these days".

The same applies with Kyle MacLachlan as Agent Dale Cooper, whatever film or tv show he is my mind has decided he's still playing Cooper, but is just undercover and that's why he's not talking about Diane and trying to have sex with Heather Graham.

So is anyone else's brain quite irritating like this?

[paddy72]

Roy Scheider.

Even when he peels off that woman suit in Naked Lunch, my brain just thinks Chief Brody has turned up.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Benedict Wong -> Errol

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

In a similar vein, Colin Hanks will always be Tom Hank's son, no matter what he does in his career. Your first thought when you see him on screen will always be, "Oh, it's Colin Hanks, son of Tom Hanks" not "Oh, it's Colin Hanks".

[mothman]

Damn, I hate threads like these. Because while these are the exact sorts of thoughts I have all the time[nb]Often in the shower[/nb], but when I see one posted, can I think of any examples? Can I fuck.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Damn, I hate threads like these. Because while these are the exact sorts of thoughts I have all the time[nb]Often in the shower[/nb], but when I see one posted, can I think of any examples? Can I fuck.

I'll give you an easy one to get you going and hopefully jog your memory:
Richard E Grant = Withnail

[Shit Good Nose]

Benedict Wong -> Errol

Was just coming in to post that. 

Full Kublai Khan regalia, picks up a tin and says "cream of pork pie soup" in his Manc accent.

[Greg Torso]

Willem Dafoe IS Bobby Peru and I cannot accept him in any sort of 'romantic lead' type role without thinking that he's about to do a disgusting gap-toothed grimace and start playing with himself.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Benedict Wong -> Errol

That's a great one and I'm 100% with you.

[beanheadmcginty]

Tim from The Office
Finchy from The Office

[Sebastian Cobb]

Also Paul McCrane will always be "Dr Romano".

Ooh look, Dr Romano's getting melted by the acid in that film about a robot policeman.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Oh look Ralphie from the Sopranos is double crossing people hooked into the Matrix, what is he like?

Oh look Ralphie from the Sopranos is tricking a man with brain damage to do murders for him.

I reckon this one's actually better if you assume it's all in universe.

[Johnny Textface]

Tom Cruise

[pigamus]

Dexter Fletcher. You can look like an old man and a grizzled unshaven alcoholic, you can bellow in broader Cockney than Ray Winstone, but you're Spike from Press Gang and you'll die Spike from Press Gang.

[paddy72]

Dexter Fletcher. You can look like an old man and a grizzled unshaven alcoholic, you can bellow in broader Cockney than Ray Winstone, but you're Spike from Press Gang and you'll die Spike from Press Gang.

Amen.

[Gulftastic]

Mark Sheppard's name in the opening credits of anything make me exclaim 'Badger!' after his two appearances in short live sci-fi series 'Firefly'.

[Replies From View]

He'll always be "Yul Brynner" off of Westworld.

[Sebastian Cobb]

That Dexter chat reminds me Michael C. Hall will always be David Fisher off of Six Feet Under.

[dr beat]

Dexter Fletcher. You can look like an old man and a grizzled unshaven alcoholic, you can bellow in broader Cockney than Ray Winstone, but you're Spike from Press Gang and you'll die Spike from Press Gang.

I was thinking more 'him from Gamesmaster'

[Deliciousbass]

Lindsay Lohan if she wasn't always known as Lindsay Lohan

Spoiler alert

sincerely think she could be really great in something if it weren't for the tabloid malarkey

[close]

[TrenterPercenter]

Finchy from The Office

Yes I couldn't stop thinking this when watching The VVitcb

"Now hear thee mother, twas not gone last Tuesday that I befound theself up to thine nuts in guts"

[Astronaut Omens]

The same applies with Kyle MacLachlan as Agent Dale Cooper, whatever film or tv show he is my mind has decided he's still playing Cooper, but is just undercover and that's why he's not talking about Diane and trying to have sex with Heather Graham.

The multiple clones/tulpas/doppelgangers/Black Lodge versions of Cooper in Twin Peaks Series 3 allow the viewer allow complete freedom to draft any performance of Kyle into the TP universe. Most obviously, it's hardly a stretch at all to make the sleazy amoral scumbag he plays in Showgirls some kind of incarnation of Bad Coop. (In fact, I wonder a bit if Lynch's decision to set so much of TP series 3 in Las Vegas didn't have something to do with seeing Kyle wandering around there in Showgirls). I had similiar "it's another incarnation of Laura Palmer" thoughts about Sheryl Lee's cameo in Winter's Bone.

[Dusty Substance]

I still can't not think of Guy Pearce as Mike from Neighbours.

[chveik]

Spoiler alert

sincerely think she could be really great in something if it weren't for the tabloid malarkey

[close]

i quite liked in A Prairie Home Companion. her career must be fucked for good now though

Willem Dafoe IS Bobby Peru and I cannot accept him in any sort of 'romantic lead' type role without thinking that he's about to do a disgusting gap-toothed grimace and start playing with himself.

he pretty much always plays a weirdo doesn't he?

[Egyptian Feast]

Die Hard from Die Hard, but only since I heard it annoys the piss out of him.

I still can't not think of Guy Pearce as Mike from Neighbours.

Same, and it's a bit unfair. I was seriously impressed & pleasantly surprised by his performances in Priscilla & LA Confidential as he was so shit in Neighbours. He deserves much better than that, but he'll always be Mike to me.

[mothman]

Oh! Jim from Neighbours!

[paddy72]

I still can't not think of Guy Pearce as Mike from Neighbours.

Same for me, too.

The Proposition is up there with my favourite films, but I still can't fully extricate Mike.

[JamesTC]

Add me to the Benedict Wong group. Can't see him without thinking "Come clean your hands on me coat" or "Is there a thing such as skimmed? Mmm that sounds nice."

Still love seeing him in films though. If anything, seeing him as Errol enhances proceedings.

[non capisco]

For years me and my sister would say about anything John Simm was in "Oh, look. Kendle's in this" due to his early role as someone called Kendle in completely forgotten sitcom 'Men Of The World'. No memory if 'Men Of The World' was even any good or not or whether Kendle was a particularly noteworthy character, but 'Life On Mars' was "that thing where Kendle goes back in time" and "I see Doctor Who is up against his arch enemy Kendle again."

Mike from Neighbours is the absolute perfect example, though, tough to beat. Kate Winslet even still calls him Mike from Neighbours.

[rectorofstiffkey]

Tim from The Office
Finchy from The Office

This.  Totally.