Feckers Portrayed by multiple other feckers

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Either fictional or historical feckers. Compare & contrast.

1. Augustus Caesar.....HBO Rome has a young psychopath violent machiavellian monster......BBC i Claudius has Augustus played by Brian Blessed as a likable avuncular jolly type.

2. Churchill.......... Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour , Brendan Gleeson 'into the Storm', John Lithgow in The Crown. Surprising how well an american did the accent.

3. Jonathon Harker....Dracula.........various brits & Keanu Reeves with the funniest accent ever.

4. President Richard Nixon, Frost/Nixon with Frank Langella , and a brilliant portrayal by Hannibal Lector himself.

5. Batiatus....the slave owning Gladiator school. Peter Ustinov & John Hanna.

6. Macbeth...........Michael Fassbender was pretty good , 1971 John Finch for Roman Polanski and the disappointing american production with American Gangster himself Denzel Washington & Fargo officer Francis McDormand.

7. king Agamemnon.........Rufus Sewell & Brian Cox

what others feckers portrayed by multiple feckers ?
 
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Lanzo-Ad said:
Sherlock Holmes, many have played the character, of the best 2 IMO, who is better Basil Rathbone or Jeremy Brett, please don't say Domenic Cummerbund.
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You forgot to mention Robert Downey Junior. And he is also one of the many feckers who portrayed South London's Charlie Chaplin.

I am surprised nobody mentioned Hitler. He seems to always get onto these fecker threads. And certainly a huge number of feckers have portrayed him....Robert Carlyle doing an eminent job. But the bloke in the Downfall movie got the body-language down to a Tee - and presumably the voice although my German is not good enough to discern.

Choice of voice is often interesting. 'The death of Stalin' gave the voisht a South London brogue..... A strange choice for a Georgian working in Moscow. Whereas Robert Duvall did a more neutral East European voice.


 
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Teddy Eagle said:
Jesus has had many portrayals. The Robert Powell version in the 70s was almost required viewing - bet that wouldn't happen now.
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a Cult leader from Judea with a plummy English accent and dreamy blue eyes ? about as likely as a Virgin birth.

Willem Dafoe was probably also a bit too germanic looking - with a California accent. But the Mel Gibson 'the passion of the Christ' movie seemed more historically accurate - both in image and in sound.

To portray Romans with a posh John Geilgud type or in Latin ? The latter is gaining traction after Mel Gibson. Some good Latin spoken in the Barbarian tv series.....more authentic and better. Apart from all the sofa-thickies who don't like reading subtitles.
 
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Martin Fowler in Eastenders. His Mum used to send him upstairs to wash his hands before dinner and when he came downstairs he was ten years older and a different actor.
 
Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot have been portrayed by quite a few:

Margaret Rutherford, Geraldine McEwen, Julia McKenzie, Angela Lansbury, Joan Hickson, Helen Hayes, June Whitfield and Gracie Fields have all played Marple in numerous film and TV adaptations of the Agatha Christie character, not to mention dozens of actresses in stage productions.

Poirot, most notably portrayed by David Suchet has also been played by Peter Ustinov, Kenneth Branagh, Albert Finney, John Malkovich, Charles Laughton, Austin Trevor, Alfred Molina and, like with Marple, many other portrayals on stage.
 
Palace Old Geezer said:
Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot have been portrayed by quite a few:

Margaret Rutherford, Geraldine McEwen, Julia McKenzie, Angela Lansbury, Joan Hickson, Helen Hayes, June Whitfield and Gracie Fields have all played Marple in numerous film and TV adaptations of the Agatha Christie character, not to mention dozens of actresses in stage productions.

Poirot, most notably portrayed by David Suchet has also been played by Peter Ustinov, Kenneth Branagh, Albert Finney, John Malkovich, Charles Laughton, Austin Trevor, Alfred Molina and, like with Marple, many other portrayals on stage.
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Joan Hickson and David Suchet for me.

You mentioned Charles Laughton playing Poirot, I am a bit of a fan of Laughton's wasn't aware of this, do you have any more info?
 
Badger11 said:
Joan Hickson and David Suchet for me.

You mentioned Charles Laughton playing Poirot, I am a bit of a fan of Laughton's wasn't aware of this, do you have any more info?
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Badger, I agree with your character selections, both were definitive portrayals.

I cheated a bit by listing Laughton, because his was not filmed, although is reputed to be the first actor to play Poirot and he portrayed him 500 times on stage in 1928 in a play called Alibi based on the book - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Alas you won't be able to see any film of the great man in this role, but here is some info:

 
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