Actor that has played the most "real" people?
My friends and I were talking about this. I came up with Johnny Depp:
Hunter S. Thompson James Barrie George Jung Donnie Brasco Ed Wood |
some upcoming roles in which Johnny portrays real people:
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" John Wilmot a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester in "The Libertine" previous movie: Scotland Yard Inspector Fred Abberline in "From Hell" not sure if you'd wanna count this one, it's another one in production in which he plays "Lindsay" in "Shantaram" in which he plays the role that's based on the life story of the author of the novel, Gregory David Roberts. |
Dustin Hoffman - Lenny, Little Big Man, Finding Neverland, All The President's Men, Billy Bathgate, Papillon, The Messenger.
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Probably <b>Charlton Heston</b> who has portrayed (among others):
Sir Thomas Moore Henry VIII Cardinal Richelieu Robert Devereaux (Earl of Essex) Michelangelo John The Baptist Thomas Jefferson Buffalo Bill Cody Pres. Andrew Jackson and that Moses guy. |
Paul Muni might be up there with Heston too, I'm not sure. Or maybe not.
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Gary Oldman has played:
Joe Orton John Richie (aka "Sid Vicious") Dracula Lee Harvey Oswald Ludwig von Beethoven Pontius Pilate |
Originally Posted by wendersfan
Gary Oldman has played:
Dracula |
But Gary did look like Vlad, though. :D
I can only come up with 6 for these two: Henry Fonda Frank James Abe Lincoln Douglas MacArthur Thomas Watson Wyatt Earp Teddy Roosevelt Jr. Rod Steiger: Napoleon Al Capone Pontius Pilate W.C. Fields Mussolini Col. Owen Stuart |
Jason Robards (including his TV work):
George S. Kaufman Abraham Lincoln (twice) Al Capone Doc Holliday Brutus Gen. Walter Short Lew Wallace Ben Bradlee Dashiell Hammett FDR Howard Hughes U.S. Grant Andrei Sakharov Henry Drummond Armand Hammer Mark Twain Alvin Binder |
Originally Posted by Slow Hands
Dracula wasn't a real person. Vlad the Impaler was who Dracula is based on but Dracula was not.
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Originally Posted by Slow Hands
Dustin Hoffman - Lenny, Little Big Man, Finding Neverland, All The President's Men, Billy Bathgate, Papillon, The Messenger.
Was Jack Crabb in Little Big Man fictional or factual? (I thought the character was entirely fictional.) And, in The Messenger, wasn't he just an apparition that Joan of Arc saw while imprisoned, so he didn't actually play a real person (?) |
Originally Posted by dhmac
A good list, but...
Was Jack Crabb in Little Big Man fictional or factual? (I thought the character was entirely fictional.) And, in The Messenger, wasn't he just an apparition that Joan of Arc saw while imprisoned, so he didn't actually play a real person (?) |
You know, it's probably one of those guys from a HIstory Channel docudrama. You know - they all dress up, everything's slo-mo, and you never get t hear them actually talk. They probaly use the same guys over and over.
"So, Jim, who do you have this week?" "Well, Monday I'm playing Heinrich Himmler... tuesday, I'm Anne Boleyn's executioner..." |
Edward Herrmann http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/act...herrmann_1.jpg
Joseph Breen Raymond Massey William Randolph Hearst Branch Rickey Nelson Rockefeller Fred Friendly Alger Hiss FDR (once) George Bernard Shaw Max Eastman Lou Gehrig Franklin D. Roosevelt (twice) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (thrice) and Warden Peter Soffel (who I think was a real guy) |
Larry King has played "himself" 41 times.
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Originally Posted by Count Dooku
Edward Herrmann
Franklin D. Roosevelt (twice) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (thrice) |
Originally Posted by IDrinkMolson
Larry King has played "himself" 41 times.
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I don't think Larry King counts because he plays the same guy every time, so it's not the most real people. It's not even people, just one person. It's not as if we're going to count Ian Holm's multiple portrayals of Napoleon as separate people.
If TV counted, it would have to be someone from Saturday Night Live-probably Phil Hartman. |
Here's a partial list of Sir John Gielguld's credits:
Elizabeth (1998) .... The Pope "A TV Dante" (1989) (mini) TV Series .... Virgil A Man for All Seasons (1988) (TV) .... Cardinal Wolsey "Wagner" (1983) (mini) TV Series .... Pfistermeister The Scarlet and the Black (1983) (TV) (as Sir John Gielgud) .... Pope Pius XII Gandhi (1982) .... Lord Irwin, Viceroy (Edward F.L. Wood) "Marco Polo" (1982) (mini) TV Series .... The Doge Inside the Third Reich (1982) (TV) .... Albert Speer Sr. Chariots of Fire (1981) (as Sir John Gielgud) .... Master of Trinity The Elephant Man (1980) .... Carr Gomm Caligola (1979) .... Nerva "Edward the King" (1975) (mini) TV Series .... Benjamin Disraeli Julius Caesar (1970) .... Julius Caesar Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) .... Count Leopold Von Berchtold St. Joan (1968) (TV) .... The Inquisitor The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) .... Lord Raglan aka Fitzroy James Henry Somerset From Chekhov with Love (1968) (TV) .... Anton Chekhov Campanadas a medianoche (1965) .... Henry IV Becket (1964) .... King Louis VII Saint Joan (1957) .... Warwick The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) .... Edward Moulton-Barrett Richard III (1955) .... George, Duke of Clarence Julius Caesar (1953) .... Cassius The Prime Minister (1941) .... Benjamin 'Dizzy' Disraeli, aka Lord Beaconsfield |
Originally Posted by Slow Hands
Dracula wasn't a real person. Vlad the Impaler was who Dracula is based on but Dracula was not.
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Gary Oldman did play Vlad the Impaler in the movie, if you recall the flashbacks.
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A few for Spencer Tracy. There might be more, but I'm much too lazy to check out every one of his credits. :)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) .... Chief Judge Dan Haywood Inherit the Wind (1960) .... Henry Drummond Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) .... Gen. James Doolittle Edison, the Man (1940) .... Thomas A. Edison Stanley and Livingstone (1939) .... Henry M. Stanley Boys Town (1938) .... Father Edward J. Flanagan |
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