Name an actor

[He Like Me 0]

Maybe someone can go through his movies/TV career, but Giovanni Ribisi has a pretty diverse background from kid TV star, to his roll on Friends, to more dramatic rolls like Saving Private Ryan.

[DankNuggs 305]

Maybe someone can go through his movies/TV career, but Giovanni Ribisi has a pretty diverse background from kid TV star, to his roll on Friends, to more dramatic rolls like Saving Private Ryan.

Boiler Room is underrated.

[Sho Nuff 719]

Boiler Room is underrated.

 

The only time I have liked Vin Diesel.

[peenie 1,691]

Gary Oldman:

 

Beethoven (Immortal Beloved)

Stansfield (drug-lord-cop-guy in The Professional)

Sirius Black (HP and The Order of The Phoenix)

ALSO!@#@!

 

Mason Verger (handicapped-homo-with wild pigs from Hannibal)

Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula)

 

ugh!!! i was going to post him!! luckily you forgot:

true romance

[peenie 1,691]

That's who I was going to say as well, but I was going to mention these two movies too:

True Romance (narced out pimp)

Sid and Nancy (as Sid Vicious)

bastard!!!!!

[kilroy69 997]

Lol....@ Cusack fan.

 

and HUGE LOL @ being an adamant Cusack fan.... Sums yourself up pretty well.

Go eat some bon bons, flip on a Cusack flick and have a good cry you flaming homosexual.

I guess you would know how to spot a homo for sure. Seeing as how you look at one every day in the mirror.

[wiffleball 4,649]

Maybe someone can go through his movies/TV career, but Giovanni Ribisi has a pretty diverse background from kid TV star, to his roll on Friends, to more dramatic rolls like Saving Private Ryan.

[Bigtraine 24]

Kevin Spacey

 

Se7en

The usual suspects

American Beauty

 

(and I personally thought he did very well in Pay It Forward and a personal favorite, LA Confidential)

[TheNewGirl 1,034]

The only time I have liked Vin Diesel.

 

 

You're kidding right?! He kicked ass in Pitch Black, not to mention The Pacifier.

[kutulu 1,552]

Christopher Walken

 

The Deer Hunter

Catch Me If You Can

[hdamien 0]

Kevin Spacey

 

Se7en

The usual suspects

American Beauty

 

(and I personally thought he did very well in Pay It Forward and a personal favorite, LA Confidential)

 

This is what I was coming here to post. And don't forget Glengarry Glen Ross.

[Foghorn Leghorn 0]

Robert De Niro

 

Godfather 2, Goodfellas, Untouchables, etc. - mob guy

Raging Bull - self-destructive boxer

Taxi Driver - social outcast

Meet The Parents/Fockers - comedic father

Sleepers - priest

Cape Fear - convicted rapist stalking the lawyer (and family) that put him away

Midnight Run - bounty hunter

The Deerhunter - smalltown war hero

 

And many more.

[Savage Beast 1]

Jack Nicholson

 

Chinatown=Private Detective

 

Goin' South=Outlaw scam artist

 

Shining=Demon possed man

 

The Postman Always Rings Twice=Adulterous drifter

 

Batman=The Joker

 

Wolf=Book editor bitten by a werewolf

 

Hoffa=Jimmy Hoffa

 

As Good As It Gets=Sarcastic loner writer who is homophobic and is no good with women

 

And the list goes on.....................................

[zmanzzzz 1]

james garner.

 

support your local sheriff, he played a sheriff.

 

support your local gunfighter, he played a gunfighter.

 

in gunfight at the o.k. corrall, he played a marshall.

 

in the rockford files he played a private investigator.

 

a very diverse talent.

[Lionsjunkie 1]

Joaquin Phoenix ~

 

 

Reservation Road - Plays a father that loses it after a tragedy

Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

Ladder 49 - Fireman

U Turn - plays Toby N. Tucker, aka TNT

[kutulu 1,552]

Robert De Niro

Cape Fear - convicted

Sleepers - priest

 

 

And many more.

 

 

We're No Angles

[nobody 2,050]

Matt Damon

 

Bourne Identity - Action hero who's as dangerous as he is vulnerable

Good Will Hunting - Troubled student

Ocean's 11,12, and 13 - An unp and coming con-man

Dogma - The angel of death determined to get back heaven

The Departed - Dirty cop

 

 

Although almost every role he plays is some guy trying to find and accept himself.

[Angry White Male 0]

Charlton Heston

 

as Moses: "Let my people GO!"

 

as George Taylor: "Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"

 

as himself: "Well we have...probably a more mixed ethnicity than other countries..."

 

[Bigtraine 24]

Joaquin Phoenix ~

Reservation Road - Plays a father that loses it after a tragedy

Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

Ladder 49 - Fireman

U Turn - plays Toby N. Tucker, aka TNT

 

Good call. A couple others that he didn't play the lead in but did really well was Gladiator and 8MM.

[Bigtraine 24]

This is what I was coming here to post. And don't forget Glengarry Glen Ross.

 

I've never actually seen that movie. Worth checking out?

[edjr 5,585]

Must be some hella good nuggs Dank... Norton didn't play in Devil's Advocate

 

I think the retard role you are speaking of is Primal Fear

 

you're both wrong.

 

he played a kid with multiple personalities in Primal Fear, neither of which was retarded and he played a retard for maybe 20 minutes in The Score.

 

Edward Norton is one of the best actors we have going, don't fock up his movies please.

[hellothere 1]

Anthony Hopkins

 

Silence of the Lambs - Hannibal Lecter - King of all psyco's

Nixon - Richard Nixon - Nervous, devious, cowardly, confused

Amistad - John Q. Adams - Wise old good-guy

[edjr 5,585]

Christian Bale

 

American Psycho - Played one of the best serial killers in any movie ever

The Machinist - Played an industrial worker that didn't sleep for a very long time and started to become insane.

The Prestige - Played a cunning magician

Harsh Times - Plays an ex army ranger that just goes loco after he doesn't get a job working for the LA PD

3:10 to Yuma - Played a rancher that agrees to help capture Ben Wade

Batman - He was batman

 

 

if you haven't seen all of these, I suggest you add them to your netflix.

[edjr 5,585]

Matt Damon

 

Bourne Identity - Action hero who's as dangerous as he is vulnerable

Good Will Hunting - Troubled student

Ocean's 11,12, and 13 - An unp and coming con-man

Dogma - The angel of death determined to get back heaven

The Departed - Dirty cop

Although almost every role he plays is some guy trying to find and accept himself.

 

because he's the gay in real life. so it works perfectly

[Bishop82 61]

Kevin Spacey

 

Se7en

The usual suspects

American Beauty

 

(and I personally thought he did very well in Pay It Forward and a personal favorite, LA Confidential)

 

Even thought I didn't care for the movie, but K-Pax is another good diverse role.

[Lionsjunkie 1]

you're both wrong.

 

he played a kid with multiple personalities in Primal Fear, neither of which was retarded and he played a retard for maybe 20 minutes in The Score.

 

Edward Norton is one of the best actors we have going, don't fock up his movies please.

 

 

Retard/multiple personalities...all the same thing to me

[Isotopes 1]

you're both wrong.

 

he played a kid with multiple personalities in Primal Fear, neither of which was retarded and he played a retard for maybe 20 minutes in The Score.

 

Edward Norton is one of the best actors we have going, don't fock up his movies please.

 

Technically didn't he play a kid faking multiple personalities or am I thinking of a different movie?

[jets24 6]

Daniel Day Lewis

 

My Left Foot- Christy Brown

Last of the Mohicans- Hawkeye

There will be Blood- Daniel Plainview

 

 

What do I win? Cause that is about as diverse as it gets.

[jets24 6]

Ben Kingsley

 

 

Gandhi- Gandhi

 

Bugsy- Meyer Lansky

 

Schindlers List- Itzak Stern

[hdamien 0]

I've never actually seen that movie. Worth checking out?

 

Absolutely. Not necessarily for Spacey, but for Pacino, Arkin, Baldwin and Lemmon. It's a David Mammet play/film, so the dialog is great. It's worth it for Alec Baldwin's scene alone.

 

[kutulu 1,552]

Christopher Walken

 

 

True Romance

[jvirne 0]

ugh!!! i was going to post him!! luckily you forgot:

true romance

 

"Marty, you know who we got here? Motherfooking Charlie Bronson!"

 

Very underrated role.

[jvirne 0]

you're both wrong.

 

he played a kid with multiple personalities in Primal Fear, neither of which was retarded and he played a retard for maybe 20 minutes in The Score.

 

Edward Norton is one of the best actors we have going, don't fock up his movies please.

 

I've always thought Norton is one of the most talented young(ish) actors out there. He just never got his knockout role. American History X was close.

 

His biggest problem is he accepts way too many roles in crappy movies. Yet he finds ways to shine in them. The Score is a great example. He plays a supporting role in an average Hollywood action flick, and turned in an amazing performance as a con man pretending to be retarded. He did both parts so well (the con man and the retard) that you ended up believing his character really was THAT good of a con man: he could convince a bunch of people that he was legitimately retarded for months.

[Frank M 181]

I didn't like him when he first came out, but Brad Pitt has played some different roles:

 

Psycho killer-Kalifornia

 

Hotshot cop-Seven

 

Suave thief-Oceans 11, 12, 13

 

Death-Meet Joe Black

 

Vampire-Interview with the Vampire

[lambert58 56]

Going to get trashed for this but Kevin Bacon is vastly under rated as an actor.

 

 

Animal House

Footloose

Apollo Thirteen

Wild Things

Mystic River

Murder in the First (Incredible performance)

Diner

 

 

He did a great job in all of those. There is nothing more diverse than his performance in Footloose and Murder in the First.

[MisanthropicAnthropoid 0]

I didn't like him when he first came out, but Brad Pitt has played some different roles:

 

Psycho killer-Kalifornia

 

Hotshot cop-Seven

 

Suave thief-Oceans 11, 12, 13

 

Death-Meet Joe Black

 

Vampire-Interview with the Vampire

 

Don't forget insane leader of an animal rights group. (12 Monkeys)

[Frank M 181]

Don't forget insane leader of an animal rights group. (12 Monkeys)

 

Right. Strange movie, but I liked it.

[MisanthropicAnthropoid 0]

Right. Strange movie, but I liked it.

 

Agreed on both counts.

[cribdog 0]

Going to get trashed for this but Kevin Bacon is vastly under rated as an actor.

Animal House

Footloose

Apollo Thirteen

Wild Things

Mystic River

Murder in the First (Incredible performance)

Diner

He did a great job in all of those. There is nothing more diverse than his performance in Footloose and Murder in the First.

 

I agree that he is very underated, but how can you throw Animal House in there...what did he have, 3 lines?

 

Thank you sir, may I have another.

 

All is well.

[kutulu 1,552]

How can he be underated? Dude has a game named after him.