Memorable Character Roles by Character Actors

Claude Rains in 'Casablanca' as Captain Louis Renault

Slim Pickens in 'Dr. Strangelove' as Maj. 'King' Kong

Louise Fletcher in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' as Nurse Ratched

Robert Patrick in 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' as T-1000

Charles Coburn in 'Monkey Business' as Mr. Oliver Oxley

Brooke Smith in 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Catherine Martin

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Ralph Richardson in 'Doctor Zhivago' as Alexander

Jane Darwell in 'The Grapes of Wrath' as Ma Joad

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Thomas Mitchell in 'It's a Wonderful Life' as Uncle Billy

Karl Malden in 'On the Waterfront' as Father Barry

Kathleen Freeman in'The Blues Brothers' as Sister Mary Stigmata

Henry Travers in 'It's a Wonderful Life' as Clarence (Angel)

Strother Martin in 'Cool Hand Luke' as Captain

Gary Sinise in 'Forrest Gump' as Lieutenant Dan Taylor

Susan Sarandon in 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' as Janet Weiss - A Heroine

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Maggie Smith in 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' as Professor McGonagall

John Rhys-Davies in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' as Sallah

Deborah Kerr in 'Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison' as Sister Angela

Raymond Burr in 'Rear Window' as Lars Thorwald

Marjorie Main and Parker Fennely in 'The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm' as Ma and Pa Kettle. They're unrecognizable without each other!

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Danny DeVito in 'L.A. Confidential' as Sid Hudgens

R. Lee Ermey in 'Full Metal Jacket' as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman

Tina Turner in 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome' as Auntie Entity

Robert Duvall in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as Boo Radley

Sydney Greenstreet in 'Casablanca' as Signor Ferrari

Margaret Hamilton in 'The Wizard of Oz' as The Wicked Witch of the West

Lenny Montana in 'The Godfather' as Luca Brasi

Walter Brennan in 'My Darling Clementine' as Old Man Clanton

Jonny Lee Miller an 'Trainspotting' as Sick Boy

Alan Rickman in 'Die Hard' as Hans Gruber

Sessue Hayakawa in 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' as Col Saito

Robbie Coltrane in 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' as Hagrid

Michael Clarke Duncan in 'The Green Mile' as John Coffey