I was just thinking about the upcoming 2015 movie Frankenstein Starring James McAvoy as Doctor Frankenstein and Daniel Radcliffe as Igor. it got me to thinking Radcliff is starting to become some what of a character actor. granted this would be his first co-starring role in some time (over a decade to be exact) but most of his roles seem to have lots of similarities to them (namely dark tones and/or some supernatural element). Which in turn got me to thinking about how there have been a lot of Character Actors who have made the transition to the leading role (like Danny Trejo, Kevin Hart, Anthony Anderson and Chiwetel Ejiofor just to name a few in recent years). So then I got a crazy thought. Its been a while since I did a best of the best list and I just thought of a perfect one. This is the list of the best Leading Role actors who switched to Character Actor roles. 1. Leslie Nielsen (1926 – 2010) 2. Sir Michael Caine (1933 - Present) 3. Jack Palance (1919 – 2006) 4. Donald Sutherland (1935 - Present) 5. Dame Judi Dench (1934 - Present) 6. Sir Sean Connery (1930 - Present) 7. Woody Harrelson (1961 - Present) 8. John Travolta (1954 - Present) 9. Charlton Heston (1923 - 2008) 10. Adam West (1928 - Present) 11. Jackie Chan (1954 - Present) 12. Robert De Niro (1943 - Present) 13. Christopher Lee (1922 - Present) 14. Michael Keaton (1951 - Present) 15. Val Kilmer (1959 - Present) 16. Diahann Carroll (1935 - Present) 17. Phylicia Rashād (1948 - Present) 18. Julie Andrews (1935 - Present) 19. Susan Sarandon (1946 - Present) 20. Richard Harris (1930 - 2002)
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:21:35 +0000
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