Movies Actors who always play themselves

[Yinko]

Post your worst ones. Obviously these are going to be personal opinion.

Rob Lowe | Actor, Producer, Writer

Known for: St. Elmo's Fire, Behind the Candelabra, The Outsiders

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His Netflix show, Unstable, is "how would I behave if I was rich and my wife just died?", as opposed to playing a different person altogether.

Dwayne Johnson | Actor, Producer, Writer

Known for: Black Adam, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

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Tom Cruise | Actor, Producer, Director

Known for: Top Gun, Minority Report, Mission: Impossible

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Tom Cruise has one or two exceptions to this, Les Grossman from tropic thunder springs to mind.

Vin Diesel | Producer, Actor, Director

Known for: Guardians of the Galaxy, The Fast and the Furious, xXx

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With the arguable exception of Groot.

 

[49ersfootball]

Does the 2006 movie "10 Items or Less" with Morgan Freeman & Paz Vega count ?
10 Items or Less (film) - Wikipedia

 

[Yinko]

Does the 2006 movie "10 Items or Less" with Morgan Freeman & Paz Vega count ?
10 Items or Less (film) - Wikipedia

As an exception? Is you're statement that Morgan Freeman always plays Morgan Freeman?

 

[Ash's Boomstick]

Post your worst ones. Obviously these are going to be personal opinion.

With the arguable exception of Groot.

And The Iron Giant

 

[Yinko]

And The Iron Giant

Good point! Forgot about that one. I guess the lesson here is that the more he's forced to rely on his voice acting skills, as opposed to his lines or face, the better he is. Dude should take over for Mark Hamill.

 

[Ash's Boomstick]

Good point! Forgot about that one. I guess the lesson here is that the more he's forced to rely on his voice acting skills, as opposed to his lines or face, the better he is. Dude should take over for Mark Hamill.

Could you see him as an animated Batman, if they made another series like B:TAS or should be play someone like Clayface as a member of the Batclan? No way he could be half of Hamill's voices, but then again who could?

 

[Yinko]

I don't know. The fact that with both Groot and the Iron Giant he has a very distorted voice that allows for few clear words doesn't actually give me great confidence that he could do a good voice for many characters. Though, if there is one that I probably could it would be Batman himself, as Wayne with the mask on is typically very serious, bordering on the monotone.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

I site you the greatest of all...

Jean-Claude Van Johnson

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[Val the Moofia Boss]

Dunno about how he was IRL but in every John Wayne movie I've seen (I've seen a at least a dozen of them), he is almost always playing an asshole, only being somewhat likeable in The Searchers and Red River. In some movies you have to wonder how he got elected sheriff or became a high ranking military officer in some movies if is so unfriendly to everyone, even his peers.

 

[Yinko]

Dunno about how he was IRL but in every John Wayne movie I've seen (I've seen a at least a dozen of them), he is almost always playing an asshole, only being somewhat likeable in The Searchers and Red River. In some movies you have to wonder how he got elected sheriff or became a high ranking military officer in some movies if is so unfriendly to everyone, even his peers.

Good observation. I was going to say that he reminded me a lot of my grandfather, who became an angry and dickish man after the war (presumably due to PTSD) and that that may have been the cause, but apparently John Wayne never served in the military. Also can't say that he was a "man of the times" because most of the other strong male roles at the time don't act that way.

 

[Yinko]

Stephen Fry - IMDb

Stephen Fry. Actor: Gosford Park. Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson...

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Every time I've seen him in anything he's played a smug condescending ass. Not sure if that's him playing himself or if that's just being typecast, but he also hosted a few gameshows where he was that way, so I'm more prone to saying that it is the former.